by JesmondJoggers | Aug 15, 2022 | News, Road race
The sun was still shining and the heat was still in the air for the Quayside 5km, a dash out along the Newcastle side of the quayside, before returning and finishing over the Millennium Bridge into Baltic Square. Two races on the night, a sub 20minutes A race and then...
by JesmondJoggers | Jul 10, 2022 | News, Road race
Racing with Pies in their Eyes! Forget T-shirts or Medals, one way to get the JJs out on mass, is to offer a pie at the end! 25 JJs made the start line, and after a JJ mass warm up, Kenyan style, up the hill that the first mile sped down it was Niran who was quick out...
by JesmondJoggers | Jul 8, 2022 | News, Road race
The Bridges of the Tyne are mine all mine! Four JJs took the line for the postponed Bridges of the Tyne 5 mile race from 2020. A flat and fast 5 mile race along the north side of the Tyne. Simon Wells, Geoff Blair, Emily Pass and Kate Winstanley were the lucky holders...
by JesmondJoggers | Jul 3, 2022 | News, Road race
It was a warm one for the 2022 Great North 10k with a mixture of sun and cloud and little breeze to offer relief. A decent sized event with a field of approximately 5000 runners (I didn’t have the opportunity to count them all). Izzy Sharrock, Rob Dooley, Graeme...
by JesmondJoggers | Jul 3, 2022 | News, Road race
All the World is a Stage! 11 of them in Sheffield! The JJs descended on Sheffield with the fellow runners amazed we had made the journey down from the North East. The only club from the North East out in force, indeed very few other NE club runners made the journey...
by JesmondJoggers | Jun 30, 2022 | News, Road race
The Anita Nott race is the only “Women’s only” race in the North East. Anita Nott was a member of Heaton Harriers but was tragically killed in 2006 when on a training run, and since, this race has been dedicated to her name. Over the years the race...
