Last weekend found the Berkleys in Newcastle for the Great North Run 2010. We set up the tent on Friday and had fish and chips then on Saturday we headed into the town centre for shopping and the Great City Games.
Haile Gebrselassie was there as part of the promotion for the Sunday run - the boys got his autograph. He went on to win the following day.
Alex and Nick enjoyed meeting some of the athletes including Hannah England who told us she was preparing to set off to the Commenwealth Games in Delhi.
Saturday was a cold night in the tent but was helped by the alcohol consumed by Mrs B in a lovely little Ialian restaurant which we found, then it was up early to head into town again for the Great North Run.
Andrew and Darren ready to run the 13 mile half marathon. It is the biggest half marathon in the world with 54,000 people taking part this year. Darren finished in 1 hour 33 min a personal best and Andrew finished in a very respectable 2 hours 2 mins. The runners even managed to beat myself, Alex, Nick and Darrens' partner Andrew to the finish as we were stuck on a bus for two hours!
Further photos of the run can be found at www.greatrun.org/Events/Event.aspx?id1
Andrew's race number was 65 which can be used to access his personal race photos.
Well done, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteWe were glued to the TV watching the race from start to finish but sadly couldn't make you out amongst the 30,000 plus other runners who finished.
Horray for them, that is quite an accomplishment! There must have been lots of 'sideliners' with that many runners. . .Sorry you missed out, thanks for stopping by, have a nice day!
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