by JesmondJoggers | Jul 17, 2019 | News, Road race
“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 run,...
by JesmondJoggers | Jul 15, 2019 | News
(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...
by JesmondJoggers | Jul 9, 2019 | News, Road race
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 form to come home first for the JJs....
by JesmondJoggers | Jun 23, 2019 | News
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 the 2019 NEMAA Track &...
by JesmondJoggers | Jun 10, 2019 | News, Uncategorized
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 an...
