Great North Run Medal: A Global Snapshot in Pewter and Pretension By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between the Tyne and Terminal 2 Picture it: 60,000 pairs of trainers slapping tarmac from Newcastle to South Shields, a human conveyor belt of charity T-shirts, nipple tape, and existential dread. At the far end waits the Great North Run…
The Red Arrows over the Tyne: Aerial Ballet in the Age of Apocalypse By the time the first lycra-clad pilgrim shuffled across the start line in Newcastle last Sunday, global positioning satellites had already logged four coup attempts, three wildfires, and one cryptocurrency collapse. Yet for exactly nine minutes and thirty-seven seconds, as nine scarlet…
The Great North Run Starts at 10:40 BST—And the World Holds Its Breath (or at Least Pretends to While Refreshing Twitter) NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE — At precisely 10:40 British Summer Time this Sunday, 60,000 registered humans—plus several hundred opportunistic charity-costumed bananas—will shuffle across the Tyne Bridge in a ritual that looks suspiciously like a mass escape from…
