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Book Review: Eat and Run, Scott Jurek

Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness Scott Jurek (with Steve Friedman) Bloomsbury, £12.99 If you’re ever in doubt what a book’s going to be like, turn straight to the index. A: Activate Isolate Stretching Technique; addiction to running; addicts, recovering as ultramarathoners; aid stations. H: hamstrings, Hardrock 100, heat. V: vegan diet; …

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TBH guide to Aqua Running

Club member, Anji Close, introduces us to the world of Aqua Running. I want to start by attempting to dispel two common misconceptions about aqua running. 1: It’s not just for injured runners 2: It’s definitely NOT the same thing as aqua aerobics. My baptism of fire into aqua running came in May this year …

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Great North Run memories

Continuing our series of GNR memories, we have this one from 1991. Take it away Stu Dickson.. 1991 My First Great North Run. My first Great North Run was 21 years ago so my memory of the event has slightly faded, but as I was a young ‘whip snapper of a lad’!!! I can remember being …

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Great North Run memories

In the lead-up to next Sunday’s BUPA Great North Run, several club members will offer they own personal memories of this great sporting event. Starting things off is David Daniels. Like a lot of people at the time, I took up running in order to take part in the Great North Run. The year was …

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TBH guide to Fell Running

Club member, Louis Goffe, extols the virues of fell running. The sport of running is as diverse and colourful as the personalities that we have in our great club. Its beauty is in its simplicity and its accessibility, no one is excluded and there is a flavour for us all to enjoy. For many in …

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Simply the best!!

  Good news folks, Newcastle has came top of a recent survey to find the UK’s best running city. The article, in the October 2012 issue of Runner’s World magazine, highlighted the number of running clubs in the city, the numerous races throughout the year and the great locations to run, which all contributed towards this accolade.  …

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Piers Pye-Watson: 24 Hour Rowathon

Club member, Piers Pye-Watson, writes this appeal…   On Thursday the 12 July I will be embarking on a individual 24 Hour Rowathon to raise money for the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity. This will be taking place on the ground floor of Citygate (in the room just behind main reception) and starting at Noon on …

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Darran Bilton – Marathon Training Presentation

Marathon Training Presentation North Shields Polytechnic Track Darran Bilton – 4th March 2012 The Marathon in a Nutshell! Sean Kelly kindly invited me to North Shields Polytechnic track on behalf of Tyne Bridge Harriers, to give a presentation on how to prepare for a marathon, how the race is run and what nutritional considerations should …

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Charlie Spedding: ‘From Last To First’

Tyne Bridge Harrier Louis Goffe recently attended a talk by one of our finest Local Heroes Charlie Spedding, and sends back this report from the event. To most he needs no introduction. But to those who weren’t around in the 80s or new to running, Charlie Spedding the athlete can be summed up in one …

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Hashing in Vietnam!!

Deka and I have just returned from our trip to Vietnam. We were hoping to run out there but having looked on You Tube before we went, there are almost 3 million motorbikes in Hanoi, the capital, and there are few traffic lights or road lanes. Walking across the road would prove difficult, never mind running. Anyway a bit more research online I came across the Hanoi Hash House Harriers.

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The 12 Dave’s Of Christmas #11 – ‘Dave’ Waugh

It’s Christmas Eve and today we have our penultimate Dave Of Christmas or in this case ChristMISS as we get the low down on one of our female ‘Daves’.. TBH Ladies Captain, Dave Waugh. I am not really a ‘Dave’ but the other Daves of Christmas have inspired me to become one (temporarily for the purposes of this article!)

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The 12 Dave’s Of Christmas #10 – ‘Dave’ Murray

It’s almost Christmas !! .. and we continue the countdown with one of TBH’s respected club athletes who is more than proud to wear the Black N White TBH Vest (as long as there is a little bit of red in it).. Mr ‘Dave’ Murray

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The 12 Dave’s Of Christmas #9 – ‘Dave’ Baker

The Daves continue and our countdown to Christmas is nearing it’s finale. Today’s ‘Dave’ is a well known name face.. and voice in the North East Running scene.. especially renamed for this feature, please give a Christmas welcome to the one & only ‘Dave’ Baker

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The 12 Dave’s Of Christmas #8 – Dave Rowe

I started running when I was at school doing x- country and 1500m, as I got older the distances became shorter until I was running no further than 400m. When I was old enough to enter public houses the running stopped, I did do 5 GNR in my late teens/early twenties with little or no training….

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The 12 Dave’s Of Christmas #7 – Dave Appleby

Unlike some other Dave’s my running history goes back quite a few years. I was one of those who were bitten by the first Great North Run Bug back in 1981. I was 17 and it was something new and a bit different. The running boom was just beginning to gather a bit of momentum and we were going to have a massive race in our own back yard and I thought I could be part of it.

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Aqua Running

Tyne Bridge Harrier Dan Birchall sends in this excellent article about his recent experience & recovery with Aqua Running

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Tyne Bridge Harriers: Inspiring PB’s

Denise Waugh posts this article which highlights the benefits of being part of a Running Club such as Tyne Bridge Harriers to aid recovery and help achieve new PB’s.

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Fell Racing

As we have quite a few people at the club who are new to running, and other more seasoned athletes who may thinking of turning out on the fells, this item might be of interest to a few.

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