Club News & Updates
Jesmond Joggers Anniversary Race 2024
Happy 18th Birthday to the JJs! A lovely night with lovely people, saw our 18th Birthday celebrated in style. With our friends from Newcastle Frontrunners, 76 runners finished the 3.8mile course. Louis Gardner retained his JJs title, four seconds outside the course...
Kielder Marathon and Half Marathon – 8 October 2023
Sunday 8th October was a marathon Super Sunday with JJ’s competing in 3 marathons across 2 continents. In a weekend that saw Kelvin Kiptum shatter the men’s marathon record 7 JJ’s took the journey to Kielder for the marathon and half marathon races.The marathon...
Northumberland Coastal Run – 17 September 2023
One week after a huge turnout of JJ’s at the Great North Run a much smaller group of five JJ’s took on the challenge of the iconic Northumberland Coastal Run. Spanning the coast from its start on the beach at Beadnell the slightly more than half marathon course winds...
The Great North Run 2023
Tensions in Tyneside were palpably rising, along with the temperatures, in the week building up to the 42nd Great North Run. A surprise sunny start to September sent the mercury spiralling upwards but did not deter the 82 JJs (our largest ever amount of member...
Bridge of the Tyne 5 Mile – 4 July 2023
The Bridges of the Tyne is a chance to run a rarely run distance and this one being a fast, mainly flat, out and back 5-mile course along the quayside passing the iconic bridges of the Tyne. Indeed, the winner clocked 24:52 to show the quickness of the course. Four...
Durham Trail Half Marathon – 23 July 2023
Five JJ’s braved the wet weather conditions to take part in Durhams coastal half marathon today. A race that promised steep inclines and plenty of stairs to climb (320!). It didn’t fail to deliver on either. The race started with a gentle incline, taking the JJ’s...