Archers Enjoy The Great North Run 2003

Tony Archer who is a senior member of the club endured the Great North Run 2003 with his two daughters, Amy and Nicky who keep Tony on his toes.  All three of the Archer family thoroughly enjoyed the race, even though they paid for it afterwards with blisters and aching legs.

Tony is training very hard at the moment as he is dreading the day that his girls beat him in a race and perhaps even more worried about the banter he would get from the lads if his girls did beat him in a race.

Nicky ran an excellent time of 1hour 30 minutes and 49 seconds to smash her old personal best of 1.36 hours. The day before was her 18th Birthday and Nicky was absolutely over the moon with her time.  In the process of running the miles, Nicky beat 6 of the elite women`s times who competed with Paula Radcliffe.  The elite race for the females started twenty minutes earlier than all the main athletes.

Amy was delighted to beat the two hour mark with a time of 1 hour, 48 minutes and 56 seconds in her very first half marathon.  Amy was running for charity namely 'Get Kids Going', which is a charity that promotes sports for athletes with disabilities.  Amy has been in training for this event for many, many months and is now having a well earned rest but attempting other half marathons.