by Robbie | Dec 31, 2017 | News
Despite the best efforts of Storm Dylan, Clitheroe was a mild 8 degrees in winter sunshine. The centre of attention was obviously the 2 Rio Olympians, Laura Weightman and Jonny Brownlee, amongst the 1500 entered athletes. The race was away on time, with the efficient...
by Robbie | Dec 31, 2017 | News
Amateur athletics rapidly developed in the second half of the 19th Century in the North of England as factory-workers and the emerging middle classes sought respite on their Saturday afternoons off from their jobs in the throes of the Industrial Revolution....
by Robbie | Dec 25, 2017 | News
Lewis Payne was the winner of the International Cross-Country Championship in 1927 and died in 2008 at the age of 100. Yet despite his long life he remains one of the least known of Britain’s athletics title-holders of the 20th Century. He was only 19 years old...
by Robbie | Dec 21, 2017 | News
Northern Athletics is regrets to report the the death of Dave Macdonald the president of Humberside County AA who died on 20th December 2017. At the end of the last track and field season Dave suffered a massive heart attack which left his heart severely damaged and...
by Robbie | Dec 19, 2017 | News
Venta de Banos, Spain 16th December 2017 Vento de Baños international cross, following a mammoth but on time journey to the sleepy Mid country Spanish town that is Vento de Baños the NA party arrived very late therefore bedded down for the evening. The following...
