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Saturday 1st February, 2025





Welcome to 2025 and welcome back to another Easingwold Running Club story. Over the last few years, we’ve heard from several members of your local running community.

This time, Bernie Wood has written for us. As a way of introduction, Bernie has been a big part of our running club for many years now. She’s a great advocate of community.

She’s played so many roles in the life of the club and at our local Parkrun in Millfield.

Encouraging, volunteering, supporting, leading and getting to know so many people that come her way.

The evidence is there on many a Saturday, as she encourages literally everyone who passes her while she’s on marshal duty at Parkrun! Over to you Bernie…

“It’s not about the finish time, but all about the finish line.“ I saw this on the back of another runners T shirt at a recent event and thought, yes that is what my running is all about now.

Running for me started when I was at senior school and I represented the school in cross country. It was always very wet and muddy but didn’t seem to put me off.

Then I went off to train as a nurse and with shift work and studying, this put a hold on pursuing any hobbies.

Roll forward some years and family life and continuing shift work meant still no opportunity for hobbies.

That all changed in 2003 when I got a Neonatal Community post, which meant no more shifts or night duty.

A couple of friends in the village asked me to join them on a run and 3 miles later without stopping and my running hobby began.

In 2006 I joined Easingwold Running Club, although I previously thought it was something too fast for me.

However, that couldn’t have been further from the truth, with regular training sessions and runs that cater for everyone’s ability with an ethos of no one gets left behind.

I became a coach when I had settled into the rhythm of the club and enjoyed over the years running with and encouraging newer members and setting them on their way.















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