Twas the night before Nationals, when all through Gateshead Not a Saltwellian was sleeping, just resting in bed. The bags were packed, with love and with care Spikes, vests and jelly babies were found in there. The excitement was building and just like a child I wished for good weather, not wet and […]
SIgnals Race Report 2
The Royal Signals Relays at Hetton Lyons Park was my first event wearing a Saltwell vest and I couldn’t have been more proud! For the few weeks preceding this event I was super nervous, the girls especially will be able to tell you this! So race day came and I donned my vest, some […]
Royal Signal Relays Race Report
A few of us had decided to spend our valentine’s day competing in the North East Road Relay Championships also known as Royal Signal Relays at Hetton Lyons Park. The course was 2 laps of the country park totalling 2.2miles with two steady uphill climbs which were harder than had been expected by all. […]
Masters XC Champs
Massive congratulations to Walter for winning the 65-70 category in the weekends Masters XC Champs in Darlington. See here for a report of the race from The Chronicle
Bedewell Park Race Report
Report from the latest cross country race at Bedewell Park courtesy of Darren Smiley. It was Saturday the 31st January, 9 o’clock and my alarm woke me up. For a minute the realisation didn’t hit me. Why is my alarm set for 9am at a weekend I thought? then it came apparent Cross country […]
Internal Cross Country Standings
As most people will probably be aware we have an internal cross country competition within the club. Every runner is awarded points corresponding to the position they finish in the race (from a club perspective), so first place gets 1 point, 2nd place 2 points and so on. The runner with the lowest number of […]
Pontefract XC Race Report
Race report from the Northern Cross Country Championships at Pontefract at the weekend courtesy of Phil Robertson. The day started with the debate of what time do you set off for a Northern Championship race at Pontefract. Some of the elderly fraternity decided upon leaving at 9am to leave time for coffee breaks on their […]
Bedewell Park Cross Country
This Saturday sees the return of the Harrier League after a couple of months break. The event is at Bedewell Park in Jarrow with Senior ladies off at 1.10pm, followed by the Senior men at 2.15pm. The postcode for the event venue is NE32 5NJ with a map and information available on the Harrier League […]
NECAA Fell and NEHRA championship races
Please find details of the 2015 NECAA Fell and NEHRA championship races and scoring details here.
2015 Fell Race Series
Every year the club holds an internal fell race series, details of which are below Men to complete four, at least one at each distance, women to complete three – either two short/one medium or one short/two medium: Short Brough Law 8/3/15, Causey Pike 28/3/15, Beacon Hill 9/7/15 Medium Coledale Horseshoe 11/4/15, […]