British record-holder for the half-marathon will compete on September 7 on Tyneside
Eilish McColgan will be a part of the elite girls’s beginning line up at this 12 months’s AJ Bell Nice North Run on Sunday September 7.
After her blistering run on the 2024 occasion, which noticed her compete in a six-way battle for the end, solely profitable will rely. Finishing the 13.1 mile course from Newcastle to South Shields final 12 months in 67:45 noticed McColgan beat her mum Liz’s Nice North Run file time – this 12 months she is decided to go one higher and be a part of Liz on the honours board.
“I can’t wait to return to the AJ Bell Nice North Run this 12 months,” she says. “It’s an occasion that holds fond reminiscences for me.
“I’ve at all times beloved competing in Newcastle and naturally we have now a proud household historical past on the Nice North Run. I’ve had a fantastic season this 12 months, I’m feeling actually robust particularly off the again of London Marathon so hopefully 2025 is third time fortunate, after I can match mum’s success and win this 12 months’s race. The crowds are at all times wonderful all alongside the route – the excitement I get from listening to them will certainly spur me on!”
The forty fourth version of the Nice North Run will as soon as once more host elite males’s and ladies’s races, and elite wheelchair races, earlier than 60,000 runners take to the course cheered on by over 200,000 supporters lining the streets.
Sir Brendan Foster, founding father of the Nice North Run and president of The Nice Run Firm, stated: “It’s at all times an honour for the North East to welcome world class athletes from throughout the globe to the Nice North Run every year, however nothing fills me extra with satisfaction than seeing the easiest of our dwelling grown athletic expertise on the beginning line.
“Eilish has had an excellent season as she makes the transfer from monitor to highway. Her debut efficiency at London Marathon was excellent and had everybody on the sting of their seats as she broke the Scottish file. She has the identical drive and dedication that noticed her mum go on to win the Nice North Run 3 times, I’ve a sense 2025 will probably be Eilish’s 12 months!”
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The 2025 AJ Bell Nice North Run, which as soon as once more will probably be broadcast dwell on BBC One, and concludes a weekend pageant of operating with begins with the Nice North 5km on Friday earlier than the Junior and Mini Nice North Runs on Saturday.
