So many great memories but what are yours of the Great North Run?So many great memories but what are yours of the Great North Run?
So many great memories but what are yours of the Great North Run?

What a phenomenon! 11 retro photos as we celebrate 40 years of the Great North Run today

Let’s say a big happy birthday to the Great North Run – after all, it is 40 years old today.

More than 12,000 runners lined up for that very first staging of the event on June 28, 1981, for a run which has now become a worldwide name.

Running elite, celebrity runners and charity joggers in their thousands have tackled the course since then.

And they have all left with memories of a day to remember.

We hope these 11 scenes bring back memories of your own of the run which, pandemic permitting, finishes in front of thousands of spectators at South Shields.

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