Training

Monday Nights  –     Meet at Blyth Quayside 18:50 for a prompt start at 19:00.  Older juniors (Steve’s group) can meet at Blyth Sports Centre 18:45 and run to the Quayside.  

NO TRAINING MONDAY’S 21ST AND 28TH DECEMBER - TRAINING RESUMES MONDAY 4TH JANUARY

Wednesday/Thursday Nights - Confirm with coaches.

Saturday Mornings - Confirm with coaches

Latest News - November 2013

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Junior Autumn Relays 2013

The Junior Autumn Relays were held at the Blyth Industrial estate on Monday 2nd December.

On a cool evening, 19 teams took part in the Juniors Autumn relays with each Junior running

a leg of approximately 1 mile. Through the chaos, the first leg runners were set off with Sam

Browning returning first and passing onto Lauren Snowden., in second place her brother

Christopher passed onto Sam’s brother Will, with Will returning first and passing onto a keen

Mark Nicholson who had to be dragged back to the start before the officials would let him off.

Mark was never passed and his team of himself, Will Browning and Christopher Snowden were

awarded the winners trophy’s. fastest boy was James Young and fastest girl was Emma James.

RESULTS (xl spreadsheet)

Junior Autumn Relays 2014

The 11th running of the Junior Autumn Relays saw a brand new course being used. The new route started just near the Band Stand on the links road, with the route going out for ½ mile and then returning along the same path. Due to the usual drop outs (sickness, netball matches etc), there was a last minute change to some of the 15 teams. On a clear, fine night for running we had 15 teams line up for the first leg with Jamie Hawkes (Team E) gaining a lead at the turning point and managing to hold onto it as he passed onto his second leg runner, Emily McKeeken. Lottie Christopher (Team B) was in second position after the first leg , while Zoe Saward was in fourth position for team X. Emily was still in the lead as she passed onto Thomas Farmery to run the third leg, Olivia Watson running for Team X had moved from 4th to second and she passed onto Alice Dungworth for the third leg only one second behind the leader with Macy Robinson (team I) passing onto Cameron McLaren in third position, three seconds behind Alice. Setting the fastest time on the evening by a girl, Alice led her team of Zoe and Olivia to first place, while Cameron, Macy and Emily Kennedy were second, with Kacey Brown, Ellie Campbell and Sam Browning in third place.

The fastest time of 5minutes 1 second (over a distance just over 1 mile) was set by Taylor Glover who pulled his team of Katie Sellars and Ellie Hawkes from 13th to 7th position.

Although not quite royalty the presentations were done by Bede Head boy Joseph Woods to the winning team.

Many thanks to all helpers and officials and Joseph Dungworth and Joey Orange who led and followed the runners to ensure no one got lost.

Results

Junior Autumn Relays 2011

Due to a last minute change of course, the distance was probably slightly longer than usual. There was the usual amount of confusion at the start with 50 children scream “What's my team?”, and with a few non-appearances there was the usual team shuffling – which probably benefited some teams and handicapped some others.

The winning team was Adam Swalwell, Mark Nicholson and Michael Scott. The fastest boy was Chris Lillico and the fastest girl was Charley Hedley.

Before the race there was a presentation of T-shirts to the four Athletes who were nominated as “Athletes Of The Match” in the 2011 Young Athletes League fixtures.

These went to Ryan Povey, Chris Lillico, Jessica Locker and Charlotte Ramsay.

Click here for the results. (Excel spreadsheet in new window)

2011 Junior Beach Races

This year's Junior Beach races, supported by CE Electric, were held on Saturday 2nd July.

Report and Results available now available.

Junior Handicap 2012

Results for the 2012 handicap

The conditions for this years Junior handicap were bright and breezy, with a cold northerly wind for the youngsters to run into for the final mile. The race was preceeded by a small presentation of T-shirts and certificates to the Juniors who had represented Northumberland at the County Sportshall Final at Sunderland earlier in the year.

With over 40 Juniors, ranges ranging from 7 – 17 taking part the start could be described as “organised chaos” without the organisation, the first group were soon away and from then on it was a steady stream until Jake and Chris were the last runners off, with the majority ignoring Kevin's instruction to “take it easy at the start”. The race was won by newcomer Josh Fiddaman, who steadily worked his way through the runners to build up a commanding lead. Finishing second was Ellen Keenan who just beat Natalya in a sprint finish, although Natalya was awarded second position as Ellen hasn’t joined the club yet and was running as a guest. This meant that Connor Marshall was awarded the trophy for third place.

Jake Jansen finished in 8th position and set a new course record of 10:59 for the two mile distance, Charlie was the fastest girl with a time of 13:02.

(Click on a photo for a larger picture).

2012 Junior Beach Races

This year's Junior Beach races, supported by England Athletics and Northern Power Grid, were held on Saturday 7th July.

Report/Results  now available.

Junior Autumn Relays 2012

At the third time of asking this year’s junior relays were held on Monday 3rd December on a new 1 km course at Blyth Quayside.  Ten teams took part on a flat, fast but slightly icy course with the winning team consisting of Abbie Fiddaman, Cameron Bennett and Joseph Dungworth.  Fastest boy was Chris Sheffer and the fastest girl Charlie Hedley.

Click here for the results. (Excel spreadsheet in new window)

Junior Development League 2013

The Juniors started their track season when they had their first fixture in the North East Youth Development League at Monkton Stadium, Jarrow. For some of the younger members it was their first time on a track and they all tried new events, with Anya Christopher giving an impressive performance in her first ever hurdles race. All the youngsters performed well and there were victories for Alice Dungworth in the U15 girls 100M,  Charlotte Ramsey in the U17 Girls 100M and 200M, while Lydia Lindsay also claimed a win in her 200M run, while Charlie Hedley was an easy winner in the 1500M. for the boys, wins came in the U13 boys 100M and 200m with Adam Swalwell, while Joey Orange won the U17 boys 1500M race. This meant that Blyth finished in third position on the day.

Junior Handicap 2013

Due to several runners going off course at the 2013 Junior Handicap held on Monday 22nd April the event will be re-run on Monday 29th April - meet in the Mermaid car park for 7:00 pm.  Trophies will be awarded to the first 3 in each race.  

Results (Race 1)          Results (Race 2)

Blyth Running Club Juniors recently held their two handicap race of 2 miles which were based on a 2 lap course using the beach path and finishing on Blyth promenade. The runners were all handicapped according to their age and ability so that anyone of the runners could win. The conditions for both races were bright and breezy, with a cold northerly wind for the youngsters to run into for the final mile. There was just over 40 runners in the first race, and with ages ranging from 7 – 17, it was the younger members of the club who were set away first. The first runner back was Lottie Christopher who led from start to finish, with newcomer Thomas Dockey in second place and Leo Hawkins finishing in third place, one second in front of Finlay Scott. A week later, they returned for the second race and this was won by Lucy Ross-Knight, who finished 6 seconds in front of Anya Christopher with Katelyn Willshire in third place. The fastest time of the night was set by James Young, while Charlie Hedley was the fastest girl.

2013 Junior Beach Races

This year's Junior Beach races were held in cool, very windy conditions on Saturday 11th May  -  RESULTS

2011 Young Athletes League

The dates for the 2011 Young Athletes League are as below :-

Sunday 8th May     Monkton Stadium, Jarrow

Sunday 22nd May     Monkton Stadium, Jarrow

Sunday 5th June     Monkton Stadium, Jarrow

Sunday 19th June     York

Please inform Keith if you are available and on which dates.

Latest positions after 3 events

Latest News - October 2015

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Junior Handicap 2015

Over 40 Juniors gathered at Blyth Beach Car-Park for the 2015 Junior handicap, which was based on a 2 lap course using the beach path and finishing on Blyth promenade.

The runners were all handicapped according to their age and ability so that anyone of the runners could win.  The clouds were gathering and there was a stiff breeze which the Juniors had to run into for the first part of the course.

The first two runners Daniel and Christopher N’Jai were set off and Christopher decided that he didn’t really want to run it, so returned to the start after about 50 yards. However, there was then a steady stream of Juniors setting off until Jake Masterman was the last runner off.

Christopher N’Jai then decided that he did want to run and set off after Jake! With two hundred metres to go newcomer Morgan Stansfield was in the lead, followed by Josh Martin and a fast finishing Sam Browning. Sam managed to  overtake Josh but Morgan held on to win by a few seconds, with Sam in second place and Josh Martin in third, with Josh Fiddaman in fourth setting the fastest time of the night. Erin Scott set the fastest time by a girl. There was just time to hand out the winning trophies and take some photo’s before the rain came! Christopher never caught Jake but did finish the race.

Results