Great North 5k results - how to find out your time for Newcastle race

The Great North Run is happening this weekend, but it's not the only race over the next few days, with things getting going with the Great North 5k on Friday night.

Organiser Sir Brendan Foster has revealed that a field of 60,000 is set to take to the start line in Newcastle on Sunday morning for this year's Great North Run, with over 10,000 youngsters set to take part in the Junior and Mini Runs on Saturday. Many people doing this year's Great North Run will also do the 5k, with a large crowd expected to descend on the Quayside for the now annual event.

The route of the 5k starts and finishes on Newcastle’s Quayside opposite the The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.. Runners then head past the Tyne Bridge along Sandhill, then loop back and across the Swing Bridge to the Gateshead side of the Tyne.

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They were then due to continue on along Pipewellgate, past the Queen Elizabeth II bridge and the Redheugh Bridge, at which point they turn around and head back along the Gateshead side of the river. At the Millennium Bridge, runners cross back to the Newcastle side, looping back to finish on the Quayside.

Great North 5k results - how to find out your time

If you took part in this year's Great North 5k or know anyone who did and want to find out their result and time, there is only one place to go and that is the Great Run website. The site should be updated shortly after Friday's race.

The Great North 5K is the first of three races in the area across the weekend, with the Junior Great North Run on Saturday, before the big one on Sunday - the AJ Bell Great North Run, which as well as seeing droves of fun runners take to the streets, will also include a top tier elite line-ui headed up by Commonwealth champion Eilish McColgan.