Congratulations and a huge thank you to the 63 runners who took part in the BUPA Great North Run in aid of CRY on Sunday 16th September 2012.

This year’s race saw the largest number of participants to ever take part, 40,000. Everyone seemed to enjoy another fantastic race day, despite the drizzle and blustery winds.

For the third year running, CRY had a stand in the Bronze marquee, which was excellent for raising awareness. The whole area that was allocated to us was branded and had plenty of literature and CRY information for runners and spectators who were not familiar with the charity and wanted to find out more. Nearly all of the CRY runners came back to the marquee and were welcomed by our wonderful volunteers, Jane, Ed, Anne and Iris, with lots of water, fruit, chocolates and sausage rolls. The sausage rolls went down a treat!

A special thank you to Garry Baxendale, Ian Jickvells, Ryan Nelson and Jack Storr who ran in CRY Heart costumes. Our costumes are a great way to raise awareness for CRY. We also want to thank all those who managed to go and meet our volunteers at the CRY stand, despite feeling emotionally and physically exhausted. As always, it was a challenging day for everyone, and especially difficult for those who were running in memory of a partner, family member or friend.

We are grateful to those who have sent in photographs from the day. If you haven’t already, then please do send any photos you have to cara@c-r-y.org.uk. We will include as many as possible on this page.

Once again, we would like to thank each and every runner for their huge efforts in completing the half marathon and fundraising for CRY. Your time and valued support are truly appreciated. Well done!

We look forward to hopefully seeing some of you again next year. The date of next year’s event is Sunday 15th September.

Photos of CRY runners at the 2012 Great North Run
If you would like to be e-mailed any of the photos here, please contact cara@c-r-y.org.uk with a list of the photos you would like.

In order for us to identify which pictures to send you, please right click on any photo you would like and then click on ‘Properties’ (the bottom option in the list of options). This will open a small grey window, and the name of the photo will be at the top of this window. This name will be followed by .jpg – e.g.gnr1218.jpg – click ‘OK’ to close the small grey window.
Please also e-mail us your own pictures of the 2012 Great North Run if you would like them to appear on these pages.

Photos courtesy of Jane, Ed, Anne and Iris