Shettleston Harriers Weekly Round Up – October 5, 2026

The weekend past saw a festival of running arrive in the city and of course Shettleston Harriers were at the forefront, helping and competing. The AJ Bell Great Scottish Run weekend is always a busy one in Glasgow. Over 32,000 runners take part with youth races on Saturday and the main events, the 10km and the Half Marathon on Sunday.

Glasgow Green was the venue for the Young athletes event on Saturday. As well as having a number of athletes running Shettleston Harriers were a visible sight with many coaches and volunteers involved in delivering the event. Working with Glasgow Life, a number of our young coaches provided A Taste of Athletics to 100’s of youngsters throughout the day. Thank you to Gilliam McGuire (Glasgow Life), Liz Burns and John Mackay who were also involved all day.

Hopefully we have picked up on all the Young athletes who were running. Well done to all those that took part.

Zoe Roberts 6^th 8.33

Harry Bell 15^th 8.53

Calum Bell 20^th  9.06 

Judy Dodds 37^th 12.15

Joseph Paterson 9^th 9.08 

Olive Lennox 34^th 12.10 

(Results are in no particular order as the athletes ran in different waves) 

On Sunday many of our senior athletes were involved in both the 10km and the Half Marathon. It was great to see Matthew Gillespie back in Glasgow after many years in the Bristol area and London. Matthew was previously a sub four minute miler and a Junior British International athlete. He also spent a year in the US setting impressive PB performances after helping the club win many team medals including the English 12 and six stage relay championships. His eighth place in The Great Scottish Run 10km on Sunday was an impressive return to club running. We believe his brother Michael also ran further down the field, another athlete who gave much to the club a few years ago 

10km results 

Matthew Gillespie 8^th 32.40 

Michael Gillepie 124^th 38.20

Avril Mason 12^th F 37.59 

Cameron Maguire 194^th 40.11

Lachlan Calder 234 th 46.10

Joe Haughey 1115^th 49.52 

In 2025 Jamie Burns claimed the top spot in the main event, the Half Marathon. This year he had  to settle for second to another Jamie …Crowe who has strong links to the club, starting off his running career with Shettleston Harriers. Crowe’s father Des was also an important member of the very successful team of the 90’s. It was still a great run from our Jamie after his appearance on Heart Radio earlier in the week. His club mate Brogan Wallace also had to settle for second behind Katrina Ballantyne of Leeds. In total there were 36 athletes taking part in the Half Marathon. As well as athletes wearing the club vest (and listed in the results) a special mention must go to a trio of Strathclyde University athletes who are also members of Shettleston Harriers. 

Ben Seath 9^th and 1^st U20 – 01:08:28 

Kate Paul -01:23:27 

Skye Rae – 01:25:48 

New member Stephanie Pelchat also had a great run running 01:24:08 

AJ Bell Great Scottish Run Half Marathon 2026

Position	Position	Position	Name	Club	Race	Category	Event	Finish
(Overall)	(Gender)	(Age Category)			No.
2	2	2	Jamie Burns	Shettleston Harriers	10	20-34	Elite	01:05:24
16	16	10	Cameron Muir	Shettleston Harriers	294	20-34	Mass	01:09:49
38	38	25	Findlay Dyer	Shettleston Harriers	14	20-34	Elite	01:12:00
39	39	26	Tom Porter	Shettleston Harriers	144	20-34	Mass	01:12:15
44	44	10	Mark Mckelvie	Shettleston Harriers	154	35-39	Mass	01:12:47
63	62	42	Angus Lindsay	Shettleston Harriers	202	20-34	Mass	01:14:31
1	1	1	Brogan Wallace	Shettleston Harriers	2	20-34	Elite	01:15:16
78	77	5	Ronnie Strachan	Shettleston Harriers	271	40-44	Mass	01:15:41
115	111	18	Scott Mckelvie	Shettleston Harriers	469	35-39	Mass	01:17:02
135	129	84	Gerard Pelegri	Shettleston Harriers	211	20-34	Mass	01:17:47
138	132	87	Alex Manley	Shettleston Harriers	1919	20-34	Mass	01:17:53
158	152	99	Matthew Fancourt	Shettleston Harriers	1073	20-34	Mass	01:18:41
3	3	2	Aoife Carr	Shettleston Harriers	4	20-34	Elite	01:20:31
258	248	11	Iain Burns	Shettleston Harriers	334	45-49	Mass	01:20:57
305	292	190	Nicky Ireland	Shettleston Harriers	2014	20-34	Mass	01:22:04
361	343	221	Marc Auchie	Shettleston Harriers	1963	20-34	Mass	01:23:09
436	409	268	Max Mckee	Shettleston Harriers	137	20-34	Mass	01:24:07
494	463	302	Aidan Burns	Shettleston Harriers	22342	20-34	Mass	01:24:49
634	45	386	Kerry Shaw	Shettleston Harriers	91	20-34	Mass	01:26:15
686	639	417	Cameron Bell	Shettleston Harriers	828	20-34	Mass	01:26:46
834	772	126	Stewart Houston	Shettleston Harriers	151	35-39	Mass	01:28:08
873	808	529	Andy Rockett Jackson	Shettleston Harriers	2137	20-34	Mass	01:28:26
877	66	532	Sophie Ralston	Shettleston Harriers	65	20-34	Mass	01:28:30
911	71	550	Eloise Coombs	Shettleston Harriers	291	20-34	Mass	01:28:49
1121	1031	673	Jack Yang	Shettleston Harriers	1664	20-34	Mass	01:30:17
1516	1374	83	Duncan Mccauley	Shettleston Harriers	1835	45-49	Mass	01:33:13
2288	2017	1336	Jamie Platts	Shettleston Harriers	1269	20-34	Mass	01:37:40
3171	2735	1795	Robbie Porteous	Shettleston Harriers	2749	20-34	Mass	01:41:25
4974	4119	162	Trevor Baker	Shettleston Harriers	3250	55-59	Mass	01:48:16
5109	4225	166	David Murphy	Shettleston Harriers	6469	55-59	Mass	01:48:50
10903	3239	1201	Joanne Harkins	Shettleston Harriers	8544	40-44	Mass	02:08:12
16191	9703	8242	David Gillespie	Shettleston Harriers	918	20-34	Mass	02:46:24

The indoor athletics season is yet to start in earnest but a new event came to the Glasgow Indoor Arena on Saturday. SprintFastest is an invitation only event for young sprinters across Scotland. Having held an outdoor event at Grangemouth in March the organisers moved indoors for their next venture. Individual athletes raced over 200m in heats and finals but also competed in teams that were selected by the organisers. 

Five Shettleston Harriers athletes chose to take part in the event with all qualifying and making their respective finals (the U20 women went straight to a final). Two over our athletes didn’t take the start in the finals, however, having picked up injuries. 

Henoch Woldeselassie U12B – Heat: 31.24 – Final: 32.20

Naod Woldeselassie U14B – Heat: 26.51 – Final: 26.57

Arianna Obiara U16G – Heat: 26:59

Viktoria Tennant U18W – Heat: 26.34

Estelle Giraud U20W – 28.10

Parkrun

Tollcross Parkrun, Glasgow

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Time
10	6	David F MURPHY	Shettleston Harriers	00:24:20
46	25	Bob PORTEOUS	Shettleston Harriers	00:44:58

Palacerigg Country Parkrun 

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Time
95	7	Holly MORRISON	Shettleston Harriers	00:20:49

Lanark Moor Parkrun

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Time
24	17	Cameron MAGUIRE	Shettleston Harriers	00:27:53

Pics from J Mackay/Great Scot Run(Facebook)/SprintFastest(Facebook)