Weekend round-up – Cross country and indoor track action

Another busy weekend for the club saw athletes in Leeds,  Sheffield, Dundee and Glasgow at various championships, International events and of course Park Runs.

Congratulations to Rosa Donaldson who made her International debut, always  a special day for any athlete, in the Home Countries/Celtic International / British Cross Challenge  in Leeds  where she finished 23rd helping the Scotland team finish 2^nd  in the team medals.

In Yorkshire were a number of Shettleston young athletes fresh from their wins in the Scottish Schools Championships at the English Indoor championships in Sheffield. Zoe Roberts (U/15) went to the top of the Scottish Rankings when finishing 3^rd in a very competitive 800m heat  improving her PB for the 3^rd time in a week running 2.20.45. Her school mate Annie McLean (U/20)also  a winner at the Scottish Schools also  finished 3^rd in her heat over 400m in a time of 57.49 very close to her PB of 57.28. In the field Abraham Lanahan was also  close to his PB in the TJ when finishing 8^th -3.06 (PB 13.25) .Jonathan Hooper on the road from injury ran 23.53 in his heat of his 200m.

Rosa Donaldson  -Thanks to Neil Renton

Also in action in indoor events closer to home  Molly Brown (U13), Joseph Lanahan (U/15), Estelle Giraud (U/17) and Carson Graham (M45) who were in action in Pentathlon and Heptathlon Events. David Houston ran 9.52.36 in the masters 3000m Championships,

Congratulations to Molly Brown who recorded three PB’s and equalled another in her Pentathlon when finishing 8^th  in U/13 event

Molly -1696pts -60m H 11.24 PB ,HJ 1.22PB,SP 5.57PB, LJ 3.72 =PB ,800m 2.58.66

Joseph Lanahan picked up another National Medal when finishing 2^nd in U/15 event setting a new club record and record a PB in the SP

Joseph -2382pts – 60mH 9.62,HJ 1.61,SP 10.11 PB ,LJ 5.81 ,800m 2.35.92

Estelle Giraud -14^th overall 2233 pts 60mH 11.27,SP 8.38,LJ 4.39.HJ 1.39,800m 2.55.04

Carson Graham -3395  4^th overall – 60m H 10.12, HJ 1.57,LJ 5.63,SP 7.97,60m 8.00,P V 2.59,1000m, 03.57.69

Well done to all our athletes, coaches and parents for their help and support.

Masters head east for national cross country

Unlike the main national champs cross country which has a fairly permanent home in Falkirk the masters xc champs still moves around the country. This year Camperdown country park played host to several hundred over 40 year olds doing muddy laps of the park.

10 of our masters made it across to the outskirts of Dundee. Ever present John Oates was our only representative in the first race which featured M65 and above and all the women. In the M40-64 race Joe Symonds was the stand out runner on the day with a 4^th place. The initial bid for overall title probably caused him to miss out on a medal but he can have no regrets about giving it his best effort. With Jethro in 21^st and the two Iain’s Pender (32^nd) and Burns (38^th) making the scoring team there were hopes of a team medal but sadly they just missed out with a 4^th team placing. Hopefully both of the senior teams can go better and get on the podium in the main national cross country champs in a couple of week’s time.

Masters Women & Men 65+

Masters Men 40-64

Full results here

This Thursday we see 12 Shettleston athletes travel  to Armagh International Road Races (Ireland) to represented the club and of course Jamie Burns& Lynn McKenna  will represent Scotland .Many thanks to Alastair Blamire (Former Member who was a British /Scottish International Athlete in the 1970’s) who set up a bursary scheme to support athletes to travel to such events.

With the entries now in for the National Cross Country Championships on the 22nd February we are delighted to tell members 81 Shettleston athletes will be on the start list – A new record for the club !