International Honours, Scottish Schools, Road Running action, National League and Parkruns

Congratulations to Weyany Ghebresilasie and Eilidh Bell on their selection to compete for Scotland at the Antrim Coast ½ marathon on the 27^th August. Weynay’s name will be more familiar to club members but Eilidh has made a big impact since joining in February.

She was brought up near Stirling and joined the Navy before taking up an engineering post in Leeds, where is now based. She was delighted to join the club leading the ladies’ teams to victory in the National Cross Country and at the recent National 10km in Glasgow Green. She also boasts an impressive PB over the marathon 2hrs 44.56 and was previously part of the Scottish Athletics marathon project

Weynay is currently training in Ethiopia at altitude and will travel home on the 22^nd August to finalise his preparations for the ½ marathon. All club members should have a read of the story Fred Davis has written for the website about his 8 weeks with Weynay at altitude.

This time of the year is School athletics and we have had a number of successes at District and National level school athletics. This weekend the Scottish Schools Championships were held at Grangemouth and a number of club athletes were competing for their schools

Results : Day 1 

Mairi Stephens 800m 2.35.66 Heat ; Daisy Gildea 800m 2.57.83 Heat;

Michael Conteh 100m 12.14 7th Final;  

Godwin Imante made the final with the fastest time but had to withdraw;

Annie Mclean 300m 42.58Ht & 42.63 5^th in Final; Joseph Prempeh 400m 54.99Ht;   

Katie Woods 1500m 4.57.30 6^th Final ; Jonathan Hooper LJ 6.22 2nd in Final & 100m Final ;  

Callum Thomson LJ 5.01& 100m; Chloe Fox Javelin 25.66 7^th in Final 

The second Day of the Scottish Schools Championships again saw a number of club athletes competing 

Results : Alexia Rigg 100m 7^th Final 16.26, LJ 3^rd Final 3.47 ; Alicja Taborek 100m 15.05 Heat;

Mari Stephens 1500m 5.27.82 Heat; Matthew Fox 800m 2.06.89 Heat;

Maynard Conteh 200m 5^th Final 24.22; Michael Conteh 200m 7^th Final 25.01 

Eilidh Bell continued her preparations for her Scottish first international vest with an excellent 4^th Place in the famous North East race ,The Blaydon 5.8 mile . She was joined on the start list by Fred Davis who return to his native North East when he finished 21^st   in a field of 4000 athletes.

Taha Ghafari continued his good form when he finished 2^nd in the Swansea ½ Marathon in a time of 66.16 -This was Taha first attempt at the distance

Three club members made the trip to Kilmarnock for the popular Roon The Toon 10km 

Results – Bob Porteous V70 8^th (512 ) 56.37; Derek Beagrie 653 62.43;  Joanne Harkins 362 64.38

At The Thames Valley Athletics Centre two Shettleston athletes made the trip to London to compete for Glasgow Jaguars at The National Athletics League – Amit Kumar -HJ  6^th 1m.80  and Teddy Tchoudja Shot (result not yet know)

Hot conditions at Saturday’s Parkruns

It was another hot weekend across the country but that didn’t put off attendance at the various Parkruns.

Fred Davies fresh from his race in Newcastle ran the South Shields Parkrun in a time of 18.34 for first place. 

At Tollcross Parkrun, Ronnie Strachan ran a course personal best to take 3rd in a time of 18.10 and Simon Gay was 12th in 22.17.

At Drumpelier Parkrun Paul Mcguigan ran 21.56 for 17th place and Gerry Mason finishing strongly in 26.42.

At Palacerigg Parkrun, local John duffy finished 5th place in a time of 20.02.

Finally at Auldcathie Parkrun, Holly Morrison finished 4th overall and 1st woman in a time of 18.52.

Well done everyone in the warm conditions this weekend