Nov 17
Every cloud… Unfortunately, injury has meant member Alasdair Blain has been away from the club for the past few months. But rather than mope around and disengage from running completely (which tend’s to be my way of recovery – DD), Alasdair has kept busy by developing a software program recording and analysing every result …
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Nov 05
Selecting October’s Member of the Month was a straight forward affair for the committee. Step forward and take a bow Adrian Brooks Over the course of 24 hours (6:00pm Thursday 30th Oct to 6:00pm Friday 31st Oct), Adrian ran lap after lap after lap of a 1 mile circuit around Newcastle/Gateshead quayside in …
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Sep 13
In this article, TBH club member Ian Pickett gives a very valuable insight into shaving those all important seconds off your race time.
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Sep 12
Following last weekend’s Great North Run, it has been announced Tyne Bridge Harriers were the top rated affiliated club in the race. The GNR was the third round of the 2014 Great Run Club Challenge, a competition for affiliated clubs and registered athletes promoted by Great Run in partnership with England Athletics. To qualify, clubs had …
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Sep 05
For many, the Great North Run is the main reason they took up running. And if running 13.1 miles isn’t a challenge on it’s own, thousands of competitors also set themselves the challenge of raising money for charity. For 2014, several club members are running the event on behalf of their chosen charity and are …
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Jul 05
In a slightly different type of ‘Race Report’, TBH member Ian Pickett gives his account as he was put through his paces during a science research study he became involved with at Northumbria University.
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Sep 06
Keep on Running: The Highs and Lows of a Marathon Addict by Phil Hewitt Published 2012 Print list price £8.99 Kindle £4.79 Author Phil Hewitt, Oxford University educated, art journalist gets you quite annoyed at how he simply gets a freebee entry into the London marathon, which he happily mentions 3 or 4 times throughout his book. …
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May 07
This season’s Track & Field Team Manager for the Men, Mal Gibson, has this appeal to club members. After a successful start to the track and field season with a joint-first place in our first meeting (see Mr. Moir’s excellent report), the next chance to get your spikes on will be Monday 20th May in the Veterans …
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Mar 08
Respected club member, Denise Waugh, writes this special article to celebrate International Women’s Day Calling all women out there! How many of you have wanted to experience the benefits of running but have been put off by the common (but misconceived) barriers to participation in this sport? If this is you, then it is time …
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Oct 24
Lynne Cornell’s trip to the top of Kilimanjaro with TBH shirt! Whilst I didn’t run to the top of Kilimanjaro I did reach the top on Wednesday 17th October at 08.15 in the morning along with my TBH shirt! Fortunately I had ordered extra large and this fitted over the 8 layers I was wearing! …
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Oct 23
Can all TBH coaches and group leaders please try to attend this month’s coaches meeting, Thursday evening 5:30pm, East End Pool foyer. Thanks Dave Anderson
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Oct 19
Club member, David Beech, writes about his forthcoming challenge. The Dare 2b Spine Race is a 268 mile, non-stop, winter mountain marathon encompassing the entire Pennine Way. Widely recognised as the most demanding National Trail in Britain, the Pennine Way crosses some of the most beautiful, difficult and challenging terrain found in …
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Oct 15
A change of focus: Coping when injury strikes and coming out stronger by Penny Wilmott I’m writing this from both a personal point of view as someone who has had persistent ongoing chronic injury problems and from a professional point of view as a Clinical Psychologist with 8 years experience specialising in helping those who …
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Sep 20
Since 1994, club member Mark Allison, AKA Run Geordie Run, has being running around the world to raise monies for two charities close to his heart, St. Benedict’s Hospice (Sunderland) and The Children’s Foundation. Aside from running 11 Great North Run’s, 5 full major marathons and several Coast to Coast runs (each one in excess of 130 miles), Mark …
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Sep 16
Congratulations to everyone who finished the 2012 BUPA Great North Run. Despite the drizzly conditions, nothing could distract from a fantastic event and the customary great support from the people of the North East. Tyne Bridge members came away from the race with mixed results, with several achieving PB’s after running some brilliant times, a dozen or so made their …
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Sep 14
Why We Run: A Story of Obsession Robin Harvie John Murray, £8.99 We’re all a little obsessed. Some more than others, of course—a quick look around any running club will tell you that (naming no names!). For Robin Harvie, the obsession was running the
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Sep 12
Someone who wishes to remain anonymous supplies the next in our series of Great North Run memories, some of which aren’t always happy ones. Always wanted to run the GNR but couldn’t afford it. One year I went along to see off a friend, leaving them at the start as I walked a few hundred …
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Sep 11
Club member, Stephen Dixon, introduces us to the world of Circuits in the Park. I set up Circuits in the Park in 2010 because I had always trained outdoors and people started to approach me to ask about what I was doing. Friends, work colleagues and fellow gym buddies all wanted a piece of …
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