The 2nd race of the Babcock series moved to Dumbarton this week. The race was also the Scottish Athletics West District 10km Road Championships. Our marathon men are doing us proud with Chris McGarrity taking 2nd place (31.43) behind the inform John Bell of Inverclyde AC .Chris also lead the men’s team to 1st place again, following their win in Helensburgh last week. Matthew Turner finished 5th (32.40) 47 seconds faster than is time at Helensburgh. Again Fergus Donnelly improved his PB in 14th position  posting a time of 34.06 to complete the winning team. Kirsty Mann had a fantastic run smashing her PB by over a minute  A number of other Shettleston Athletes travelled to Dumbarton to compete in this very popular series .The Dumbarton race having 770 athletes entered.

The last race in the series is our own Babcock Shettleston 10km taking place in Glasgow Green on Sunday 29th May (10am start). Still time to enter or if you can help on the day (9am -12noon) please contact John Mackay ( secretary@shettlestonharriers.org.uk)

Shettleston Harriers results -Dumbarton 10K

Chris McGarrity 2nd 31.43, Matthew Turner 5th 32.40, Fergus Donnelly 14th 34.06 PB,

Mark McColl 67th 39.32, John Oates 96th 40.11, Duncan McCauley 40.21, Lachlan Calder 133rd 42.35

Kirsty Mann  117th 43.20 (17th F)  PB, Joe Haughey 211st 47.37, Richard Millar 213rd 47.39

Joanne Harkins 331st 55.45 (80th F)

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