Weekend round-up – British & Irish vets XC, several road races and parkruns

In another action packed weekend, we had athletes competing in Ireland/England/Greece and Scotland.

On international duty this weekend were Charlene McCallum (W35) and Avril Mason (W45) both travelling to Dublin to represent the Scottish Veteran Harriers club in the British & Irish Veteran Cross Country International. Both came away with team medals – Charlene (10th) and 2^nd W25 team and Avril also taking 10^th place helping Scotland to 3rd W45 team.

Full report, videos and results here

Closer to home three members competed in the inaugural Newton 10km (in memory of Cat Gaskill) along the banks of the Clyde near Cambuslang on Saturday.

Iain Burns 3^rd (2^nd M40) 35.41

Ben Fullarton 34^th (13th M40) 42.02

David Murphy 75^th (13^th M50) 46.24

Full results here

Gerry Mason made the return journey to Athens (Greece) to compete in the famous marathon and finished in a time of 4hrs 14min 05 sec.

Moving to England, Fred Davis returned home to compete in the Heaton 10km in the North of England and finished 5^th in a fine PB performance of 32.17.

Closer to home The Jimmy Irvine Bella 10km is always popular and Shettleston vests were to the fore. Chris McGarrity (31.50) was second behind Ryan Thomson (Cambuslang), Fergus Donnelly  (33.43) 4^th and Paul Sorrie (34.38) 9^th and 3^rd M40. The three top ten finisher meant that they claimed first team prize.

Congratulations to Kirsty Mann who smashed her PB (40.43) finishing 8^th Lady.
Other Shettleston results 19^th Dan Lowe 36.33, 51^st Calum Oates 39.17, 201^st Joe Haughey 47.42, 126^th Female -Joanne Harkins 56.28

Full results here

In addition to the races we had a few parkrunners this weekend…

Michael Paxton took first place at Falkirk parkrun in a very respectable 17.13.

At the Tollcross parkrun, Fergus Donnelley dethroned Iain Macdonald of Cambuslang taking first place in 18.16 on the very hilly course. Duncan Macauley continues his good progress with 15th position in 18.50.

At Springburn parkrun Emma Purdie was First Lady and Jodie Waite finished also.

At Queens parkrun David Clarkson was the only club runner as was Melanie Hayes at the Forfar parkrun.