They say variety is the spice of life – usually we’d start from Saturday news and continue onwards, but our biggest club triumph came on Sunday, so we’ll being there…

Our plucky pair to tackle the Prudhoe Miners Race at 9am this morning was Lindsey Dover and Claire Knox. Both ladies did us proud on the day, with Lindsey knocking out an even 50 minute time, with Claire going one better to finish first in her category and SECOND female overall!

Stunning performance from Claire, who was only pipped to first place by a mere 16 seconds! Massive congrats to Knoxy from all of us!

Whilst this was all going on, we had a load of the Sunday Social lot taking on a whole other kind of adventure – heading to the wilds of Parkhead to head all the way back down the hill to Rowlands Gill and Blaydon.

They couldn’t have chosen a better day for the 20odd mile route along the Waskerley Way, past Derwent Reservoir to the other end of the Derwent Walk and down into the Derwent Valley.

We’re one week away from the biggest weekend in north east running – but that didn’t stop our lot from taking this in their stride and taking down those picturesque traily miles.

All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable morning and one we’re bound to repeat again in the near future – maybe when it’s even more scenic with a bit of a white dusting…

While those less foolhardy took on the classic Chopwell Wood loop with Simon – 3 humans, 3 hounds. Can’t say fairer than that.

Circling back to the start of the weekend and we’ll finish up with the ParkRun results – our members were tackling the courses at Chopwell Wood, Town Moor, Prudhoe Riverside, Durham, Riverside, Tyne Green and Gateshead. There were course PBs at Tyne Green for Bex Hewitson and at Riverside for Steven Wade. Of course we had our squad adding to the volunteer crew at Chopwell – with the Robsons, Charlotte Bowes and Lesley Gregory all lending a hand.

As we head into September and draw a close to holiday season – we’re still continually adding pins to our map of world dominance – with 35 pins and counting.

As previously mentioned, next week is the north east’s biggie – the Great North Run! We’ll have a brilliant club turnout on the day – be sure to follow us on social media to stay aware of how our members get on…