Description: Race Reviews, GPX files and more from North-East England
I moved to the North-East of England in 2011, and started running (in a great deal of ignorance) in 2014 when I signed up to run the Great Women’s Run in Glasgow before actually seeing if I could run at all…I made about five paces before doing an excellent asthma attack impression.
Since then, I have run in many events around the North-East and you can find reviews of them including my impressions, photos, maps, elevation profiles, GPX files and anything else that occurred to me at the time by checking out my race list on the link below.
2019 was not the best year for running for me, and for various reasons I missed many of the races I’d entered. At the end of the year I added up how much I’d spent on race entries and disappeared for a while into a hole of shame under my desk. There must be, I decided, a way to enjoy the racing element of this hobby without forking hundreds of pounds into corporation bank accounts. I did some digging, wondering if it was possible to find races for under £10. There are MANY – often supporting local running c