Category Archives: Clive Cookson 10K
This was a very well organised, two-lap race on a relatively flat course, with great PB potential; what’s not to like. The atmosphere was very friendly, from the GB international at the front to the 90 minute plus 10k runner towards the rear – everyone was given a warm welcome. Add to this a mild, … Continue reading Clive Cookson 10K 2016
At 7km my heart rate is hitting 182bpm, I’m pushing hard on this second lap around the course and starting to suffer. I’m getting a stitch so drop the pace slightly. Heart rate 177bpm. My plan had been to run the first lap at a comfortably hard pace, maintaining a HR of around 175bpm but … Continue reading Clive Cookson 10K 2015
This is a race I’ve done every year since I started running in 2008, usually with decent results. It’s been my PB race and I even frustratingly last year exactly equalled my 10K PB time to the second. It’s flat as a pancake and sufficiently inland that the coastal winds aren’t too much of a … Continue reading Clive Cookson 10K
Several Striders had turned up to Whitley Bay for a spot of PB hunting. There was the promise of a flat and fast course which I was relishing. We were all gathered in the school’s computer room, sheltering from the passing rain and winds. I will still traumatised by what happened at the recent Sunderland … Continue reading Clive Cookson 10K
Clive Cookson 10K
Louise Miller
I used to live in Tynemouth and having ran some of the handicaps with North Shields Poly I had heard of the Clive Cookson 10k, but I’d never got round to doing it. I knew it was well known for being a fast, flat course which was good for pb’s but fresh memories of my … Continue reading Clive Cookson 10K
Everywhere has one of these, or at least should have; a nice, flat, two-lap 10k race which is well organised, marshalled and supported by club runners. Most of the race is on tarmac but a bit of it is on gravelly paths, however not enough to stop it potentially being a p.b. course. Although it’s … Continue reading Clive Cookson 10k
Fellow Strider Alister, MickyC (maybe/hopefully a future Strider) and I, left Durham spot on 5pm. It was quite a stressful long drive, battling our way through rush hour traffic, negotiating our way through the dreaded Tyne Tunnel and nearly been wiped out on the way by a Peugeot in the wrong lane arghhhhhhh, not the … Continue reading Clive Cookson 10K