Sunderland Harriers have recently been knocking up some fine results in some far flung places around the world.
Following Gavin Massingham’s fourth place (33.07) in the Tolo Harbour 10km in Hong Kong on Christmas Day, Oliver James and Jenna Wilkinson have also been in action in foreign lands.
James, who is on an American sports scholarship at the McNees State University in Louisiana, competed indoors in Lake Charles.
He won the 3,000m in a personal best of 8.21.26, having just returned to the States after the Christmas holiday spent at home in Tunstall.
Wilkinson, teaching maths in Dubai, competed in the Kuwait Spark Green Island Run 10km multi-terrain race and finished fourth (42.01).
A bit nearer home, Sunderland’s Sophie Burnett, who competes for Birtley, was in Northern Ireland representing the North in the Antrim Cross Challenge on Saturday and finished an impressive second in the Under-20 race.