Teacher Reed Gets Top Marks For Road Relays Performance

Sunderland Harrier Nathan Reed is back on course to full fitness after long-term injury problems have blighted his year and beyond.

The 26-year-old returned to competition on Saturday at the Gosforth Park Norman Woodcock Memorial Road Relays and he achieved his most significant result sinc...

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Sunderland Strollers Edge Out Harriers To Finish Second

Elswick Harriers received a bumper entry for their revised Norman Woodcock Road Relay on the ambulance track around the race course at Gosforth Park on Saturday.

The three stage-relay catered for all age groups and attracted 112 teams to the tight circuit over the short distance of just ov...

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Sunderland Harriers' Christmas Pudding Run On Boxing Day 2018

Sunderland Harriers are celebrating their Christmas Pudding Run on Boxing Day at Silksworth Sports Complex.

For those of you who haven't partaken of this seasonal event, it's your chance to give it a try. For those who enjoyed the newly inaugurated event last Christmas, won by Emily Powell...

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Sunderland Harrier Gunn Fights Off Pain To Win Bronze At Aykley Heads

Sunderland Harrier Craig Gunn crowned his cross country debut by winning the bronze medal in the North Eastern Harrier League’s senior men’s race at Aykley Heads, Durham, on Saturday.

He was running from the slow pack in the six-mile handicap race and his performance helped to steer his c...

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Masterful Sunderland Harriers In The Medals At British & Irish Masters’ Cross Country Championships

Three Sunderland Harriers came back from the British and Irish Masters’ Cross Country Championships with three team medals and an individual bronze at Swansea on Saturday.

Over-60 Paul Merrison led the charge with third place in his category and a team gold for England.

Kevin Jeffr...

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Sunderland Harriers’ Men & Women Are Hoping To Keep Their Heads

Sunderland Harriers go into the fourth Start Fitness North Eastern Harrier League of the season at Aykley Heads, Durham, on Saturday, with both their men and women’s teams lying in midtable in their respective First Divisions.

The men are in sixth place and the women are fifth, as the sea...

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Alyson Dixon Strolls To Victory In Memorial 10k Road Race

Sunderland Stroller Alyson Dixon won her fourth Heaton Harriers’ Memorial 10km Road Race at Newcastle’s Town Moor yesterday.

She is the course record holder with her time of 34.04 from 2016, and while that time was out of site as she passed halfway in 17.41, she won the women’s race comfor...

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Sunderland Harriers Trio Get Call-Up For British & Irish Masters

Three Sunderland Harriers have been selected for the British and Irish Masters’ Cross Country international at Swansea a week on Saturday.

Kevin Jeffress and Paul Merrison compete for England, while Jacqueline Etherington is in the Scotland team.

Jeffress goes in the Over-35 event a...

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Sunderland Half Marathon & 10k 2019 Date Revealed

First details have been revealed for the 2019 Sunderland half marathon and 10k.

Both races take place on Sunday, May 12, and begin and end at the city centre's Keel Square.

They are again organised by Events of the North in conjunction with Sunderland City Council and Active Sunderl...

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Success For Sunderland Strollers Men & Womens Teams At Hexham 10km

Sunderland Strollers turned out in force in the Run Northumberland Hexham 10km Road Race on Sunday.

And they were rewarded by winning both the men’s and women’s team races, with their star athlete Alyson Dixon breaking the women’s course record.

The Olympian was having her first rac...

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