Harriers’ action the length and breadth of UK

This is a busy time of the year with lots of school events and the start of the open graded season.

Zoe Roberts made the trip to Stratford for the Newham & Essex Beagles Summer Open Graded Meeting where she ran the 800m recording a time 2.24.09 breaking the club’s 2009 record to move to the top 15 in the UK Rankings. Well Done Zoe

Friday night saw the first of the popular Livingston AC Open events and we had a number of athletes who had to cope with the heavy rain .

Results :

Molly Brown U/13  200m 30.56 ,SP 5.37 PB ,800m 2.54.26 PB, Arianna Obiora U/13 200m 30.21 PB

Rio Biddlecombe   U/11 600m 2.02.13 PB, Louis Millican U/11 600m 2.05.09,

Lucas Millican U/13 800m 2.41.78, Matthew Fox  U/17800m 2.04.39 PB

Kate Monaghan U/17  2.45.60

Moving onto Saturday you could find Shettleston athletes competing at six  different venues -Crownpoint ,Grangemouth, Edinburgh , Manchester, Stornoway and Jura !

The GAA Sprint Gala took place at Crownpoint and lots of PB performances were achieved. A double sub 11 secs by Godwin Imante  and excellent runs by a number of athletes in warm conditions shows the progress by our sprint group in all legal winds 

Results :

Amit Kumar HJ NK , Emma McKinnon 100m Senior 15.14 PB, Emmauel Nyameke U/23 100m 11.66 

Godwin Imante U/2010.89 /10.91, Maynard Conteh  U/20 100m 11.50 PB and 200m 23.18 PB

Estelle Giraud U/17  100m 14.88, Ava Millican U/17 300m 42.83 PB, Annie McLean  U/17 400m NK

Thierry Giraud U/13 100m 16.04 PB /200m 33.31 PB, Tristan Giraud U/13 100m 16.34/200m 34.19

Molly Brown U/13 100m 14.47/200m 30.42, Arianna Obiora U/13 100m 14.34 

Moving to Grangemouth the 2^nd Throws  Gala took place with Multiple District medal winner Hannah Black and Chloe Fox taking part 

Results

Hannah Black U/15 Discus 18.86 /Javelin 25.01 , Chloe Fox U/17 Javelin 24.39 

Brian Scally has overcome a very difficult  few years but like his big sister (Elaine Mackay) he was in the prizes this week when he took first place in the Stornoway 10km in a time of 38.43 

At the highly competive BMC event in Manchester Aoife Carr toed the line for her first 1500m of the year running  4.44.49.

The second race of the highly successful Babcock 10km Series moved to Dumbarton following our own race at Glasgow Green on Thursday. The weather could not have been more different from the warm dry day at the Green .Constant rain thorough out  the day saw the start area a mud bath and numerous puddles on the course. It did not stop Jamie Burns making a successful  return to racing in Scotland .Fresh off the plane from North Dakota he led his club mate Taha Ghafai home with Stewart Houston closing in the team for 2^nd over all .The ladies took 2^nd team with Victoria Riddell and Holly Morrison both making the top 10 in their age supported by Club President, Elaine Mackay. Well done to all our athletes who took part. The final race takes place next Thursday (30^th  May) and again we expect a large turnout for the club.

Results:

257      264     Elaine Mackay     F50(9th)     Shettleston Harriers       S                 51.09         51.22

The Edinburgh Running Festival 1/2 Marathon

As always a big thanks to everyone who allows our athletes to compete at these different events. Results from Jura still to be published