Hexham Half, 14th July 2019
“Green or red?” “Green” “Green” “Green” “Green” “Green” “Green” “Red” said Izzy. There’s always one. As it happens the Fates and some sporadic marshalling led to more Red than Green by the end of the morning. The Hexham Running festival had planned a 3k fun…
JJs inaugural plogging!
(to the tune of The Wombles Song) “Under trained, over trained Still running free, The ploggers of Jesmond Joggers are we” (courtesy of Rob!) On Sunday 14th July seven JJs dragged themselves away from the tennis, cricket etc for the inaugural JJs…
Tynedale Pie and Peas 10k, July 2019
A warm night saw six JJs take a trip along the river to Prudhoe for a lovely 10km. A downhill start after a long warm up for some, mentioning no names Molly, saw a blistering first mile. The race settled and Kleo continued his fine…
NEMAA The Track & Field Championships
I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been looking forward to this. Because I had. For months. But the weeks of waiting, obsessively checking the start lists every half hour and scouting out the competition were over and it was finally the day of…
Ah went to Blaydon Races, ‘twas on the ninth of Joon
Ah me lads, ye shudda seen us gannin’ … all 23 of us (a JJ record at Blaydon I’m sure) We flew past Airmstrang’s factory, and up to the “Robin Adair” …. We flew across the Chain Bridge reet into Blaydon toon … … to…
Pier to Pier (South Shields to Roker Beach), 19th May 2019
The popular and lovely race organised by Sunderland Strollers saw 1287 runners cross the line with two JJs being 1st and 2nd in the women’s race. Molly Rebecca led home all the JJs (both male and female – we need…
The Stirling Marathon (with apologies to Barry White)
Stirling, you were “my first, my last*, my everything …” (* I reserve the right to change my mind!) Stirling you were “my first” road marathon, and Si’s first marathon for 19 years, and you certainly took pretty much “everything” that I had in me! …
London Marathon – Sunday 28/04/19
If someone had told me 5 years ago I’d be running a marathon this year, I’d have laughed out loud. I hated running, and couldn’t do it! But that was before I joined Jesmond Joggers. Running with people made all the difference, and it didn’t…
Start Fitness NEHL XC season ends at Alnwick
The last cross country of the season saw the best turn out for the JJs in the club’s history! 29 club members, keen to run one of the most picturesque XC routes. Excitement was in the air as almost 1000 runners geared themselves up…
The English National Cross Country Championships 2019 – Leeds Dirty Leeds (circa 1970)
Back in the 1970’s visitors to Leeds in a sporting context would often be heard saying “DIRTY DIRTY LEEDS” but after a two hours journey to Leeds, the travelling JJs found the course at the 131st English Nationals for the men and the 86th Woman’s…
NEHL Thornley Farm Report
Women’s Race A smaller team for the women this week due to illness and other commitments meant our squad dug deep to show our strength in depth on a tough course. Megan ran a stormer to move herself up to the medium pack for…
“You must to Pomfret ….”
“You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower” – but to the Northern’s XC! (minor adaptation from Richard II, Act V, Scene 1) The great 17th century Quaker, Dissenter and traveller, George Fox, enthused how the “delight and pleasure” of Pontefract, “arrest the traveller’s…