Tag: fell running

2017 North East Counties Fell Running Championship

The North East Counties Fell Running Championship is an annual competition open to anybody born or resident within the North East Counties (Northumberland, Durham, Tyne and Wear, Cleveland and North Yorkshire north of Whitby). You will be presumed to be eligible if you have entered any of the races as a member of a North …

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The country and the city: a book review of two halves

Run Wild Boff Whalley Simon & Schuster, £14.99 (or from City Library) I. First half: the city If you love city-based marathons, look away now. Boff Whalley, one of the founder members of the band Chumbawumba (‘I get knocked down…’) and member of Pudsey & Bramley AC (once national fell running champions) doesn’t love them …

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Hexhamshire Hobble Race Report – Sunday 2nd Dec

Dave Beech gets all slippy and slidy for TBH as he reports from the hilly Hexhamshire Hobble On a very icy and cold Sunday morning, the TBH contingent met at the local school car park which was now a makeshift race HQ and registration building, located in the small remote village of Allendale. Registration 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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High Cup Nick Fell Race 2012

From the fells of Cumbria, Tyne Bridge Harrier‘s very own John Tollit sends in this fine report from Saturdays High Cup Nick Fell Race. Saturday morning saw the advance party of the TBH fell running division rallying at Byker Pool to make the trip over to Cumbria to take part in the High Cup Nick fell race. Numbers were slightly down on what had been expected so Messrs. Tollitt, Kirtley, Varley, Ms. Deritis and Cassie the dog

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Ossy Oiks Fell Race: Report

After hitting a traffic bottle-neck at the Tyne tunnel, Gareth Huxley and I had a nervy journey en route to the Ossy Oiks in the North York Moors, race 4 of 11 in Esk Valley Fell Club Summer Series.

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