Category Archives: training

Pleasure and pain at Haltwhistle

Posted on May 4, 2010 by admin

This week, I ran in the first running of the Haltwhistle Marathon a 27 mile trail race taking in stunning Northumbrian scenery including sections of the Roman wall and along the River Tyne. It started last year as a walking … Continue reading →

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My first newcastle park run

Posted on April 3, 2010 by admin

I heard about parkruns a few months ago, but hadn’t had a chance to get to one until this week. They are a weekly 5k run, ran in parks around the Uk.  They are free to enter,  you simply sign … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Uk’s fell runs

Posted on January 5, 2010 by admin

In 2009 i set about trying to see where the fell runs closed ro me were, in some cases the locations were given by grid ref, others by name, or by longitude and latitude. It was quite difficult to get a picture of this, so i decided to try and covert them all to co-ordinates and map them on google maps, colour coding them by distance and severity.
This took far longer than expected but most of the results are now mapped. Continue reading →

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