Silver for Teddy at English U23, road races action, National League & Parkruns

Congratulations to Teddy Tchoudja who claimed a silver medal at the English U/23 Championships over the weekend in the Shot Putt throwing 14.66m

Kirkintilloch was the scene for the latest mid- week 10km race which is now a feature of the summer season. Jamie Burns had a double celebration easily winning the race in a new records time of 30.47 after hearing he had passed his Final University exams. He is in his last few weeks in Scotland before taking up his athletic scholarship in the USA in early August. He also led the club to a team win.

Victoria Riddell is making a habit of a podium place taking 2^nd place in the ladies’ section of the race. Close to 300 ran in the race

Results : 1^st Jamie Burns 30.47, 6^th Fergus Donnelly 35.23, 14^th Scott McKelvie 36.40,

15^th Cameron Wallace 36.40, 28^th John Craig 37.39, 57^th John Duffy 40.35 M50 (7^th )

59^th Victoria Riddell 40.43, 85^th Lachlan Calder 43.37

In the supporting race Jamie’s sister (Katie) and Mum (Jennifer) both ran making it a family night out !

Following on from Thursday evening Shettleston athletes were again in action over 10km /5km in the Loch Lomond 10km/5km on Saturday

Paul Sorrie returned to his winning ways taking the M40 prize when he finished 4^th overall in a race he has won on previous occasions. His club mate, Denis Williams, was also a podium winner when taking 1^st M60 prize. Making it a triple success over the 10km course Kirsty Mann took 3^rd place in her age category.

it was also great to see Kathryn Pennel back out racing and she finished 2^nd  Lady in the support 5km race.

Results 10km : Paul Sorrie 1^st M40 34.39, Denis Williams 1^st M60 40.58, Kirsty Mann 3^rd (4^th over all) SL 40.44

5km : Kathryn Pennell 2^nd (1^st SL) 18.56

Sunday saw a number of athletes competing at Scottish National League at Grangemouth. Many thanks to the officials who gave up their day to allow our athletes to compete –John Coyle, Kevin Slavin ,John Mackay ,Jim Clifford ,Sharon Taylor ,Laura Gebbie

Results

100m : Tammy Adelabu 14.68, Gavin Bodrell 11.52, Emmanuel Nyamekye 12.22, Maynard Conteh 12.21

Daisy Owusu 13.89

200m: Gavin Bodrell 23.41, Jonathan Hooper 23.36

800m: Arthur Descazeaud 1.59.72, Adam Clifford 2.03.83, Sam Lesley 2.04.16, Katie Woods 2.20.70 

1500m: Jamie Burns 3.55.94, Matthew Fox 4.42.59, Charlene Manley 4.50.23

Long Jump : Jonathan Hooper 6.12, Tammy Adelabu 3.52

The warm weather never stopped a number of the men celebrate Fathers Day running the Men’s 10km around the streets of Glasgow 

Results :

10^th Gerry Pelegri 35.25, 17^th Ronnie Strachan 36.03 (2^nd M40), 203^rd Ian Gray 43.14,

327^th Andrew Waite 45.03, 340^th Stephen Clarke 45.19, 361^st Paul McGuigan 45.24

530^th Simon Gay 47.43, 554^th Stevie Eccleson 47.58, 1602 Gary Eusebi 61.10 

Parkrun Report week ending 18 June

And so it was over to Pollok Parkrun where John Connaghan finished strongly for 3rd place in a time of 18.50. At Tollcross Parkrun, David Murphy ran strongly to get into the top 10 in a time of 22.3 and Bob Porteous in 26.57.

Away from the hills briefly and to Victoria Park where Gerard Pelegri took it easy as he had the Men’s 10k on the Sunday. Still a decent time in 17.30 for 6th position.

At the Springburn Parkrun, Chloe Fox finished in 30.56.

Over to the southside at Queens Park where Susan Breckenridge finished in a time of 27.39.

Story of the day was at Elder Parkrun where Andrew Taylor has been trying his upmost to win this parkrun since the start of the year seemingly only able to get second place. Any other weekend and his time of 16.40 surely would have been enough however not this Saturday as Robbie Ferguson ran a scorching 14.55 to take the win.

At Holyrood Parkrun, Bryony Macleod finished in a time of 30.01.

Finally, at Palacerigg Parkrun, John Duffy finished in 4th place in a time of 20.14