June Update - Blaydon Junior race, Summer Cup & Monkton Funetics!

Its been a busy week for many of our younger juniors who have been competing in a wide variety of events!

Friday 12th June saw two of our younger members taking part in the first Gateshead Harriers funetics event held at Monkton stadium. Well done to Harris on running a 400m pb of 1:10.6 and finishing first year4 boy and Lucas, who also ran a 400m pb of 1:20.8 and finished second year 5 boy.

The following day saw six juniors running the Blyth Links parkrun on a very windy morning, great times by:- Joshua Bromiley finishing in a 1min 20sec pb of 19:06 for 11th overall, U11 Alex Fielding recording a remarkable pb of 19:30 in finishing 14th and finishing just behind Alex in 16th just outside his pb in a time of 19:42 was Richard Gormley. These were followed home by Jack Ellis (21:31pb; 33rd), Tom Floyd (23:20 pb; 52nd) and Oliver Lamb (23:21pb; 77th).

Blaydon Junior Race:
Our endurance squad braved the British weather last week and took on the Junior Blaydon Race. Archie and Annalisa did fantastic in the mile race, whilst Mikey and Casey smashed their 5k PB's in the older race 💪💪 However, huge congratulations to Alastair, who despite falling heavily on the gravel, picked himself up and glided home in 1st place! 🥇 Well done all! 💚🤍💚🤍

On Wednesday, many of our juniors took part in the clubs summer club race (with Sam, Richard and Jack pictured amongst others).