I had been looking forward to this race following my great experience in 2015. This race is a very fast 5k course. On this night the sun was out and the wind up slightly, but no conditions to make the pb seekers fear their results. Ladies and M50’s were the first group of people to … Continue reading Sunderland 5K 2016
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Quick 5k just what I needed to see where I was with my training. I headed over to Sunderland with Graeme who had race envy so he entered the race on the night. It was a gorgeous sunny night with a good turn out of club runners including plenty of Striders. First race up was … Continue reading Sunderland 5K 2015
The weather took a turn for the worse and I wondered what the turnout for the Sunderland 5k road race would be like as I set off from Durham on Wednesday night. In spite of the downpour that greeted us on arrival at Silksworth there were nigh on 350 runners prepared to face the torrential … Continue reading Sunderland 5K
It’s a couple of years since I’ve done this one and I was professionally interested as to whether the spurt in growth of parkruns in the North East would adversely affect the attendance at paid for 5K runs like this one. I needn’t have worried, as there was an absolutely bumper crop of 350+ mainly … Continue reading Sunderland 5K ‘Road Race’
Three Striders went over to Sunderland for this presumably all thinking as I did that it would be considerably quicker than the nearby Sunderland parkrun course as it skips the hills that make that such a challenge. Turns out, I at least was wrong. Starting from the path next to the “turnaround tree” familiar to … Continue reading Sunderland 5K
I hadn’t planned to do it and only finally decided the day before. I hadn’t done it before, so I didn’t know it all. Got there and I was slightly confused about where to park (I parked in the tennis centre which turned out to be a good choice) and where registration was (at the … Continue reading Sunderland 5K