Never let it be said that rotten weather gets in the way of
a good run. Six hardy Harriers and their trusty support team of Colin and
Judith braved the wind, rain and 56,000 other runners for the Great North Run,
racing against such international superstars as Mo Farah, Kenenisa Bekele, Haile
Gebrselassie, Priscah Jeptoo, Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba to raise money
for their selected charities and, by the sound of it, have a fine weekend.
For those who don’t know, the Great North Run is one of the
world’s biggest mass-participation events, with a route that starts in the
centre of Newcastle running out to the coast at South Shields. Our team were
Fiona Lyle, Julia Greenlees, Kerry Sweeney, Susan Saunders, Wendy Taylor and
Nicola Watson, and we think Newcastle just about survived. Tastefully attired
in blue tartan tutus, but disappointingly not wearing club blue socks, the team
ran the whole event as a group, and thoroughly enjoyed themselves all the way.
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