Mar 13 2023
By Liam Whitelaw On Sunday 12 March this year, a total of 21 juniors attended the Birtley Relays – one of the best turn outs we have had at this event! All of the TBH teams taking part achieved outstanding results and the persistence of all was inspiring. The day started off well, although an …
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Mar 05 2023
After a season of continual improvement, it’s become a challenge to find new ways to say how impressive our juniors have become. For the club, our participation in the harrier league has always been central to our identity. A huge turnout has always been a badge of honour, which in turn has produced some fantastic …
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Feb 26 2023
The English National XC Championship had a new venue for 2023 and as we arrived by coach we were all eagerly eyeing the landscape. There were no obvious hills but there appeared to be lots of taped sections across countless fields. It wasn’t until we got off the coach that we realised that a chilly, …
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Feb 12 2023
Wow, wow, wow. What a day of racing we had yesterday at Thornley Hall Farm for the penultimate race of the North East Harrier League season. At, what is normally a boggy swamp, we were blessed with blue skies and sun for almost the entire afternoon and, if that wasn’t enough to heat you up, …
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Jan 29 2023
Having given ourselves plenty of time to get the meeting point for the 6:30am departure we were left scratching our heads when there was no coach present. Some frantic checking of emails confirmed it was booked for the correct day so we called the company who informed us the driver had been stuck at some …
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Dec 11 2022
Arriving at Temple park, the weather app informed me that it was -2 degrees, a whole degree warmer than it was when I left the house however that made no difference as the conditions in the car park indicated that this was going to be one hard xc. Walking toward the course, it became apparent …
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Nov 07 2022
A cold, wet start to the day dampened the already muddy course causing conditions on and around the xc to become rather slippy. Like an episode of the chuckle brothers, we attempted to put up the tent. 40 minutes later, three rather irritate Colvers had almost given up, and were rumoured to have said ‘shall …
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Sep 27 2022
I’m not sure getting a coach at 7:30am is everyone’s favourite start to a Sunday but the Tyne Bridge Harrier Juniors didn’t seem to be phased and were quite bright eyed and bushy tailed as we set off to, probably, the most prestigious road running event in the Northern region, the Northern Athletics Road Relays …
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Jul 18 2022
Henry Pickett provides us with his thoughts from a brilliant day of racing in the sun (and rain!). “We got there early to put up the gazebo, annoyingly the second we started trying to get it up it started to rain. I had 4 events, 800m, 4x100m, javelin and discus. My first event was 800m …
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Jul 16 2022
Newcastle welcomed the arrival of the Queen’s Baton Relay to celebrate the coming Commonwealth Games on the Quayside with a chance for people to try out some sporting activities. Tyne Bridge Harriers were offered the chance to host the athletics events and provided a number of sporting opportunities for people to try out. The standing …
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Jun 27 2022
NEYDL #3 Monkton, Sunday 26 June. By Liam Whitelaw It was a good day for Tyne Bridge Harriers Juniors. The weather turned out just right: not too cold or hot and enough clouds to keep the sun out of our eyes. I decided to ask various members why they enjoy these athletics events and why …
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Jun 19 2022
Whilst soaking in my annual bath (I have one every year whether I need it or not) I decided to write a bit of a race report for the Website. I thought I’d try to put together a bit of list of things I have learned (or still not learned) from the experience. Despite many …
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May 23 2022
Fifteen Tyne Bridge juniors put in a tremendous show at the NEYDL fixture this Sunday, 22 May at Churchill Track, Whitley Bay. The combined Tyne Bridge Harriers / Birtley Athletics Club came in at second place overall with 474 points, and our TBH athletes went home with a clutch of PBs and club records. It …
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Apr 25 2022
This was the first fixture in the NEYDL for 2022 and numbers were down for the TBH contingent of the composite TBH/Birtley team, due to many of the regular girls being away / unavailable. Some-how I was roped into official timekeeping for the day, being the only one there early enough from TBH to fill …
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Mar 15 2022
The annual Birtley Junior Cross Country Relay race was an overall successful event for Tyne Bridge Harriers, proving all juniors brought their ‘A game’. Before I start with the race coverage, let’s talk about the conditions and the course. As most who were there will agree, the weather was windy, drizzly and slightly chilly (if …
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Mar 12 2022
Freddie Palmer is the first junior member of Tyne Bridge Harriers to be selected to represent the North Eastern Counties and here he tells us what it is like to pull on the county colours. When I was selected to do the National Inter Counties Cross Country for the North Eastern Counties team I was …
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Mar 07 2022
What a fantastic finale to the Harrier League, sunshine, a bit of mud and Alnwick castle as a backdrop. Yet another strong junior TBH turnout helped us finish it all off in style. First up was the U11 boy’s race. XC first timer Sam Whittaker was first in over the line for TBH in 8th …
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Feb 27 2022
The juniors had a brilliant opportunity at half term to travel to London and compete in the National Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill, on Saturday 26 February. The first Nationals took place nearly 150 years ago in 1876! There were just 32 competitors but the 2022 Nationals had over 8,000 entries from juniors to …
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