ELSWICK Harriers’ Ethiopian athlete Tadele Geremew-Mulugeta will be chasing his fourth road race victory in just over a month in today’s sell-out Saltwell Harriers 10K in Gateshead.
The 29-year-old African, who set a new course record winning the Richmond Castle 10K in October, was in blistering form last month, winning the Heaton Harriers Memorial 10K, the Brampton-Carlisle ten miler and then the Barnsley 10K.
Geremew-Mulugeta, also winner of last year’s Middlesbrough Teespride 10K, has proved himself to be one of the region’s top road racers sinced settling in the North-East following his marriage to another Elswick Harrier, Justina Heslop, winner of three consecutive Blaydon Races.
Today’s women’s race promises to be a hard-fought affair between Durham City’s newly-crowned North-East cross country champion Rosie Smith and her fellow Great Britain international Alyson Dixon (Sunderland Strollers), winner of last month’s Heaton Harriers Memorial 10K.
Today’s race has already reached its limit of 500 runners and there will be no late entries.
One of the region’s newest athletics clubs, Sedgefield Harriers, founded in 2005, have been chosen to host next winter’s 110th North-East Cross Country Championships, which will be held at East Park, Sedgefield, on Saturday, December 12.
Loftus and Whitby AC host the annual eight-mile multi-terrain Loftus Poultry Run tomorrow (11am start). Late entries will be accepted.
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