{"id":4213,"date":"2025-12-16T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:06:46","slug":"the-30th-simonside-cairns-race-results-and-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"The 30th Simonside Cairns race: results and report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<em>The expected rain stayed away and an exceptionally mild but overcast day<br>greeted the runners for the 30th Edition of this popular December race. The<br>race was founded in 1995 by Peter Reed and the late Ray Hayes. Peter was<br>handing jelly babies and water out to the runners at the Coquet Cairn check<br>point and is still very much involved.<br>NFR\u2019s Chris Larkin was the convincing mens winner and he is getting very<br>close to Nick Swinburn\u2019s course record. NFR\u2019s Jarlath McKenna and Thomas<br>Prentice coming 2nd and 3rd.<br>NFR\u2019s Karen Robertson won the Ladies race making this her 13th victory in this<br>event. Emma Burke NFR and Laura Chapman Jesmond Joggers were 2nd and 3rd.<br>Thanks to Elvet for bringing a good compliment of runners and home club<br>NFR who had 26 members competing.<br>A special mention must be made for local lad Brian Robson who completed<br>his 30th Simonside Cairns Fell Race. Brian actually ran in the same kit that he wore<br>in the very first race in 1995. Fell running has played a big part in Brian\u2019s life and<br>has helped him through some challenging times in recent years. He was presented<br>with a memento of the Simonside Hills and long may he continue to run.<br>Also a big thanks to the registration and refreshments teams and to the many<br>marshals out on the course for giving their time to make these events happen.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/html\/raceresults\/2025\/Simonside_Cairns_2025_results_and_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Simonside Cairns race results<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Appleby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The expected rain stayed away and an exceptionally mild but overcast daygreeted the runners for the 30th Edition of this popular December race. Therace was founded in 1995 by Peter Reed and the late Ray Hayes. Peter washanding jelly babies <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/?p=4213\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4214,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions\/4214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}