Spacebuns Runs!!
Let’s start by setting the scene – what is the Goggins 4x4x48 challenge? It’s a challenge inspired by ex-Navy Seal David Goggins as a running endurance challenge. You undertake a 4 mile run, every 4 hours for 48 hours. Sounds easy on paper?! Well, it does kinda sound like “how bad can it be” although …
As a kid my mum & dad would have the football on the radio on a Saturday afternoon. My parents are Teessiders and we have been brought up with the character building infliction of being a family of Boro fans. There was nothing better than the era of Ali Brownlee & Bernie Slaven being in …
We went to Blaydon Races, t’was the nineth of Joon….. Well, this is an iconic race in the North East and this song (along with Cushie Butterfield) are folk songs that my Dad sang to/taught my daughter as he pushed her on a sing as a toddler. The Blaydon Race is one that needed to …
The first outing of a new Run Through event in the north-east the Jarrow 10km looked like it was going to be a goodie. Run Through do events well! They are well organized and always a bobby dazzler of a medal and fantastic goodies at the end. I entered Jarrow 10km a little while ago …
The beautiful market town of Northallerton, situated in North Yorkshire, a little south of Darlington hosts an annual 10km run in association with a local charity, Pendragon Community Trust. OK, so I always thought that Northallerton was flat! I did Northallerton 10k back in the late 90s/early 00’s and I don’t remember it being anything …