by Robbie | Sep 18, 2017 | News
Combined Autumn Relays at Sportcity, Saturday 16th September 2017 Women’s 4-Stage: Leg 1: Some 5 minutes after the men’s start, 83 women lined up on their first leg. Laura Hesketh, Clayton, was first home in a time of 20.26, some 26 seconds ahead of...
by Robbie | Sep 15, 2017 | News
A Grand National, a tour de force, a wonderful success – well, almost – and 90 years later Sam would still have been 5th ! Marathon races in Liverpool with some form of civic backing have been held intermittently since 1927, and in that first promotion of 90 years ago...
by Robbie | Sep 4, 2017 | News
The Blaydon racer lost to history in dark blue shadows A brief account of a forgotten World record Brendan Foster wasn’t the first athletics World record-holder from the North East when he ran his 7:35.2 for 3000 metres at the Gateshead Stadium on 3 August 1974 – not...
