A canny mix of Bounders were at the seaside basking in spring sunshine on Sunday for this great multi terrain 10K along the cliff tops of South Shields. It was also the North East Masters multi terrain 10K championships too so a good bunch of club runners lined up on the promenade at 11am where a minutes silence was observed to remember those that died in WW1 before the race started.

A nice start to the race long the sea front before a gentle climb onto the cliff tops to start a series of 2 laps of the main course before a fast downhill finish back along the sea front with a lap of gypsies green stadium track to finish. The route underfoot was pretty good with a mixture of track, trail and grass. Once on the tops there was no escape from a fairly breezy wind that made hard going back along the leas twice!

The Bounders did excellent overall with both the men`s and ladies teams finishing 2nd, Patrick Duffy bagging the Vet35 prize money along with a gold medal as part of the North East Masters along with gold and 1st Vet 40 prize money for Leanne Robertson and a silver and 2nd Vet 40 for Ian Young.

A great race with a choice of t shirt or mug all for a tenna thanks to all at South Shields Harriers for organising an excellent event. Deffo a one for next year unless of course you are part of the Bounders marathon posse heading to London!

Thank you as always to all the Bounders supporters/photographers who made the trip across to South Shields.

Full results Sand Dancer 2014