Re-uniting 25 years after their ship was bombed during the Falklands Conflict has led to a new series of adventures together for Stephen Jopling and Chris Warner as they prepare for the Active Northumberland Kielder Run Bike Run challenge. The Navy veterans were on-board HMS Plymouth when it was attacked by five aircraft on June […]
Only 17 months after suffering a heart attack, a North East man is preparing to run the Kielder Half Marathon to raise funds for the charity that saved his life. Terry Gregg had to be airlifted from the bed and breakfast he runs in Kielder to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle by the Great North […]
Suzanne Sharp from Corbridge will be joined by a very special team at Kielder this year -although she admits she drew “the short straw” by taking the Run Bike Run challenge- as her whole family will be taking part. Suzanne, 51, who is Practice Manager of Equine Veterinary Clinic in the Tyne Valley, returns to Kielder […]
Having already completed the Kielder 10k, Half Marathon, and Marathon, Ben Heathcote will return to Kielder this year to compete in the Run Bike Run event with his wife Rachel and colleague Owain. Together the trio make up “Team Core Music”. Opened in 2008, Core Music is a music shop and community music facility located in […]
Retired librarian Jim Taylor has run all distances from 1 mile to 24hr endurance ultra events and currently he is undertaking an A-Z of marathons that will take him all over the world. Jim, 58, from Kirkcaldy came up with the idea on a plane after running the Athens marathon in 2011 and has since […]
