​Weekend round-up: May 25&26

There were two Morpeth Harriers involved in Sunday’s popular Manchester 10k, won by Kenyan Vincent Ngetich in 27 minutes 25 seconds with Ethiopian Gotytom Gebreslase first female finisher in 30:32.
Carl Avery finished just outside the top twenty, 21st in fact in 29:45, with Lawrence McCourt 38th in 31:31.
The previous evening saw a series of keenly-contested track races at the SportCity Grand Prix.
Josh Fiddaman was 7th in the 1500m D race in 3: 51.50, while there were four from Morpeth taking part in the 5000m.
Phil Winkler was 20th in the A race, finishing in 14:46.05, while the B race saw Finn Brodie come in 2nd in 14:26.67. Sam Hancox was 15th in 15:18.55 and Alex Brown 17th in 15:27.30.
Closer to home, the annual Druridge charity 10k and Fun Run took place - thankfully before the weather took a turn for the worse - on yet another variant of the course at Druridge Country Park. (Why can’t the organisers settle on a route and stick with it?)
Serial winner James Anderson of NSP, who’s also taken the North Tyneside and the Clive Cookson 10ks, this Spring was first back in 33:41.
There were some decent Morpeth performances however, with U/17 Harry Armstrong improving all the time and 2nd back in 36:07, while also showing a clean pair of heels to his Dad Ian, 5th in 38:27.
They were split by Ali Douglas, last year’s winner, who was 4th in 38:04. It was certainly a good day for the family, with Tayla 1st female home in 42:00 and 12th overall.
Some 161 finished.