In just a couple of a week’s time, Bedale and Aiskew Runners will be hosting their second 48 Hour endurance event. Starting at 17:00hrs on Friday 19th April and finishing 17:00hrs Sunday 21st April, at least two members of the club will be running or walking the 5.1mile (8.2km) loop with an aim to complete over a thousand miles in the 48 Hour period.

Whilst the club members love the challenge, the main purpose of the event is to raise much needed funds for two North Yorkshire charities – Yorkshire Cancer Research and Swaledale Mountain Rescue.

Sponsorship has already reached over £1000 and generous support has been received from local businesses, but collectively, the club aims to raise £4000 or more from the event.

If you would like to donate, you can using the external link below to our SponsorMe donation page:

https://sponsorme.charitiestrust.org/event/8aa04b45-242b-49d1-b6ba-479031edc97e

A great turnout at the 2023 Great North Run from BAR athletes with a total of fifteen present, with both seasoned campaigners and newbies, enjoying the famous atmosphere of this ever-popular half marathon and final professional race for Sir Mo Farah. The weather was unseasonably warm and humid so not PB conditions, but the crowds were amazing providing extra drinks, sweets, ice pops and even some beer as well as awesome support.

Team BAR was ably led home by the ever-impressive Matt Randall in 01:33:00 but disappointed not to be the first to the bar like last year! As well as completing the course, members raised much needed funds for great causes.

Unfortunately, after the race there was a biblical downpour which literally put more than a little dampener on proceedings, leading to the Metro being cancelled and travel chaos with gridlock and people stuck in cars for hours. However, there was also some excellent community spirit with fellow local running club Swaledale Runners helping some of our members with transport home and local businesses staying open to help people shelter – at least it was memorable!

James Wigglesworth