Keeping fit and spending more time outdoors are both common new year resolutions that many of us aim to maintain.
What better way to achieve these goals than cross country running?
With the World Cross Country Championships around the corner, now is a great time to look back at some memories of the sport in the north-east.
On the run-up to the championships, we scoured our archives for the best photos of cross country running from the region.
Do you have any fond memories of cross country running in the north-east? Can you recognise any of the runners in these photos? Let us know in the comments.
1981 – Aberdeen Amateur Athletic Club’s open cross-country meeting gets under way at Balgownie.
1989 – Primary 7 pupils of Kellands School, Inverurie prepare for the Gordon District Cross Country Championship at Haddo Country Park.
1987 – Peterhead cross country runners Leigh Forman, Margaret Baird and Lindsey Milne finished third, second and fourth respectively in the girls’ race at Drum.
1992 – The front runners in the Elrick Eightsome Relay race get off to a flying start in Kirkhill Forest.
1987 – Aberdeen’s Robin Sutherland (162) sets a hot pace from the start of the Banchory Amateur Athletic Club senior boys’ race which he won.
1992 – A host of top Scottish hill running and orienteering internationals descended upon the Elrick relay race at Aberdeen’s South Kirkhill Forest, Tyrebagger.
1991 – Members of various north-east athletics clubs show off their prizes.
1989 – The junior men, men and veterans start a four-and-a-half mile battle round Haddo House.
1987 – Start of the junior men, senior men and veterans race at Drum Castle.
1992 – Barry McAllister takes the seniorboys over the top in the Grampian schools’ cross country championships at Balgownie.
1989 – EE Goldsmith’s Round-the-Castle cross country race series lifts off at Crathes.
1988 – Aberdeen runners Erin Kerr (with umbrella) and Katy Snape get ready for the start of the minor girls race in the shadow of Crathes Castle.
1987 – Elgin’s Mick Flynn added fun to the Drum men’s race with a new line in head gear.
1980 – From left: Ross Arbuckle, Sonia McLaren, Barbara Harvie and Fraser Clyne training at King’s College playing field for the world cross country championships in Paris.
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Gallery: Ready… Set… Go! 16 photos of Cross country running in the north-east
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