Home Race Reports Race Report: Costal Run

Club Awards

In 2005 Quakers Running Club was 'Highly Commended' by Cancer Research UK for its continued support of Darlington's Race for Life. Click here to view the award.

 

 Enter the Darlington Race for Life

The club is also recognised by the Flora London Marathon for its dedication and support given to beginners and has been designated a Flora London Marathon Running Club Partner, the only club in County Durham to receive this accolade.

London Marathon Partner Club Site

 

About the Club

The club's main training base is at Queen Elizabeth 6th Form College Playing Fields, Abbey Road, Darlington, DL3 8LR. We train on a Tuesday and Thursday evenings (meeting at the school at 6:30pm). Formed in May 1995 with a membership of just six. The club was formed to promote the participation of all disciplines of athletics and has quickly established itself as one of the regions more active promoters of running events.

At present the club boasts a coaching staff of twenty qualified coaches specialising in a wide range of disciplines from sprints to ultra distance running, including field events, as well as more diverse disciplines such as fell running, strength & conditioning and orienteering. We cater for all types of runners and boast a varied membership, accomodating for all ability ranges. No one is ever left behind! We consider ourselves to be the most friendly and active running club in the area.

If you are interested in joining, you might find our membership introduction pack useful. Click here to download the file as a PDF.


Race Report: Costal Run PDF Print E-mail
Written by Julie Whinn   
Tuesday, 20 July 2010 19:35

We woke up and set off up the A1 at 7.15am heading straight to Alnmouth (where the race finished) to park our cars at the local school and to get on one of the arranged buses to take us up to Beadnell – the start of the Coastal Run. On arriving at Beadnell we registered in a specially erected marquis in the car park where we received our number and our chip and also sheltered from the strong wind – even though one of the marshalls kept calling to everyone to ‘leave the tent once you’ve got your number and chip’.  A baggage bus was there to take our bags back to Alnmouth.

The weather was shall we say ‘brisk’ to begin with, many of us feeling the cold. There was a very strong head wind which was in our faces for the whole of the race with intermittent sunshine.  What a lot of us commented on was the distinct change of temperature at about 400m into the race along the beach. It was like someone had flicked a switch and the temperature went up about 5 degrees – very bizarre, I have never experienced anything like that before and that warm temperature remained for the rest of the race a little warm but bearable. On leaving Beadnell we ran round the edge of the beach (not across as the tide was in) and south towards Low Newton by the Sea by some road and some pathways. Across another beach and round Dunstanburgh Castle on a coastal pathway and into Craster village. We then followed the road and more of the coastal pathway to Howick and on to Boulmer, finally finishing on ‘a very long’ beach at Alnmouth.

This is probably one of the most picturesque runs I have done and even though it was windy which seemed  to make everyone say that they had found it ‘tough’ , the scenery made up for the toughness! It beats running round ‘the pitsop’ any day!
It was a well organised race with 4 water stations on route.  No goody bag at the end but a red and yellow technical t-shirt.

Most of us,  John, Wendy, Mark, Sandra, Michele, Carol, Penny, Gary and myself  called into one the pubs in Alnmouth to have a welcome beer and coffee.

My only disappointment – my husband beat me!!!

Contributed by Julie Whinn
 

Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.