Euro Cross Trial at Liverpool, award for Lidya and limited Parkrun action

The Ladies escaped the worst of the weather when they travelled to Liverpool to contest the European Club Trial. The heavy snow caused the cancellation of the Lanarkshire AAA Relays and a host of Parkruns and other events throughout Scotland. After contesting the European Club Championships in the previous two years in Spain and Portugal hopes were high they could make it three in a  row. Unfortunately after finishing 3^rd team and the only the first two selected it was not the case this year. Well done to the ladies who made the trip to Liverpool  and it may have not been snow but the picture will show you it was very muddy! Lynn McKenna was also  selected for Scotland  and finished 2^nd  Scot.

Ladies results 

Teams : 1^st Belgrave Harriers (London) 103, 2^nd Aldershot Farnham & District AC 116,

3^rd Shettleston Harriers 180 

Positions : Lynn McKenna 16th, Hannah Terrance 50th, Avril Mason 56th, Ruth Joss 58^th 

Suzi Blake 70^th 

Emily Carroll also  ran but for her English club, Thames Valley Harriers, 4th Scot overall in

34^th position.

Two men also  made the trip to Liverpool – Taha Ghafari and Joe Barton .

It was a bit of a disaster  for Taha when a mixed up with his entry  meant he had to run without a number and does not appear in the official results- We believe he finished around 45th, In early December Taha will travel to Antalya to compete in the European Cross Country Championships for the European Refugee Team. New member, Joe Barton, finished 95th just in front of Ben Johnson (Southport) who spent a number of years with the club.

Congratulations to Lidya Woldeselassie who received the Disability Achievement Award at ClubSport Glasgow Awards Evening on Friday in the City Chambers. Great achievement for this young lady who has represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games and is currently part of Scottish Athletics Youth Forum.

Parkruns

Only two parkruns to report on due to the adverse weather conditions at the weekend.

Raymond Loughran finished the Pollok Parkrun in a time of 37.49.

Callum Oates was third in the Hanley Parkrun in a time of 18.33.