Round up – 5k action, 25th Anniversary celebration, Marathon & 10k action Europewide

Over the last few weeks a number of key performances have been achieved by club members. Taha Ghafari has had a great run of form finishing 6^th in the English Cross Country Championship in West Park ,Shropshire following on from his PB of 29.53 and 2^nd position in the Scottish 10km Championship. He then followed this up with an excellent 2^nd in the Fast N’ Flat 5km in 14.6.2 .Jamie Burns was also at the event clocking 14.11.5 .Taha and Jamie led home a large number of Shettleston athletes  during the evening and it was great to see Lynn McKenna back on the start list with Aoife Carr and new member, Claire Stewart, also near the front of the ladies race.

Club President Elaine Mackay was featured in the Scottish PB magazine this month and this was followed up with an invite from our local MSP John Mason to attend the 25^th Anniversary celebration of the opening of the Scottish Parliament. King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the event and Elaine was honoured to have a conversation with Queen Camilla. Elaine was nominated as a local Hero by John Mason due to 50 year involvement in sport in the East End and her family involvement with the club for 97 years . John Mackay ,Club Secretary ,also  attended the event as a guest of John. Following the event and speeches John gave Elaine  and John a full tour of the parliament  gaining access to places not normally available to the public. John Mason MSP is a tremendous supporter of the club and over a number of years he has attended events and given personal financial support to our ladies teams when they competed at the European Clubs Cross Country championships .The club is very grateful to John for his continual support of the club. Elaine and John would like to thank him for giving them a once in a life of opportunity to attend such an event. 

We are at the start of the Autumn marathon season with the Berlin Marathon on Sunday -Fred Davies ran 2.27.28 a good time by any standard but Fred was disappointed with his time .If any other member ran can they please let us know .

Paul Sorrie travelled through to the Linlithgow 10km being a winner of this event many times over the years in his younger years. Now a master athlete he finished 19^th over all and 4^th M40 in a time of 36.00. At the other end of the age groups, Rio Biddlecombe finished 9^th in the funrun in a field of 166 in a time of 8.07.

The Baxter’s Festival of Running took place on Sunday (29th Sept) around the Inverness area. Ross McMullan had a great run to finish 4^th in the marathon in a time of 2.32.15. We believe this was Ross’s first marathon. Lachlan Oates is also due to run his 2^nd marathon in Frankfurt in a few weeks time and he warmed up with a 3^rd place in the 10km race in 31mins .

Next weekend sees the start of the Cross Country season with the West District Cross Country Relays at Kilmarnock and also  the Great Scottish Run weekend in Glasgow .

Seniors and Young athletes should have had emails/text about Kilmarnock please check !