Club action from far and wide, Scotland, England and the USA

In a very busy 7 days the club has a number of notable performances.

Last weekend two of our English based Scots ran in Birmingham for their English Clubs TVH and Leeds city. New member Emily Carroll  had much to be cheerful as she was part of the winning TVH in the UK Road Relay Championships. Eilidh Bell ran in the Leeds City B team just  missing out to run for the A team which also featured in the medals. Our own Ladies team had qualified for the event but with a few of the ladies missing as they prepared for upcoming Marathons and a spell of warm weather training ladies Captain, Avril, decided to wait another year before attacking the event. A fantastic event which many of the men will remember with fond memories being one of only three Scottish teams to ever claim medals at the event.

Closer to home Linwood was the venue for the Kilbarchan Open Graded Meeting on Tuesday Evening. Winds of up to -6m/s  in the home straight affected all the races 

Results : Imogen Millar U/17 800m 2.58.9, Matthew Fox U/17 3000m 9.54.42 PB,

Ava Millican U/17 100m  14.22 -2.6, Lucas Millican U/15 800m 2.45.19 PB,

Arianna Obiora U/13 100m 15.23 -5.1, Louis Millican U/11 100m 16.47 -1.7/800m 2.53.67 PB

Jamie Burns had an excellent weekend as he finishes of his time at North Dakota University running in the Sunshine state of California in the long beach area. On Friday he smashed his PB and posted a North Dakota University Record running 14.08.08 in a 5000m race. This time also puts him into the top 10 all times ran by a Shettleston athlete. On Saturday evening he ran over 1500m running 3.55.84 just over a second outside his PB. He ran this time at 2am local time! Jamie let us know he was in the 96^th heat of the 1500m series and over 1600 athletes would race over the distance .

Moving to Saturday the club could be found at two events – Scottish National League at Grangemouth and the first race in the Scottish Hill Running Championships –The Cobbler Hill Race 

The National League allows an athlete to compete in their chosen event without the pressure of gaining points and just looking to improve PB performances. Again conditions were not perfect with strong winds and heavy downpours throughout the day but this did not stop some excellent performances. U/17 athlete Ava Millican has had a busy few days but produced two PB performances 100m 13.49 +2.4  and 44.05 over 300m. Her time over 300m placed her 4^th over all and in better conditions this time is sure to come down.

Scottish Shot Putt  Champion Teddy Tchoudja started her out door season with an easy win putting 12.87. Other athletes competing were Matthew  Fox U/17  (800m 2.11.61) and Arif Chapiti (100m 12.41 +0.0). The 2000m Steeplechase is not often run in Scotland but Shettleston had two ladies in this event, Katie Woods U/17 7.58.37 and Tara Walker (making her first attempt at the chase) 8.20.32 both featured towards the front of a large field of 11. Thank you to John Coyle ,Shenna MacDonald, Elaine Mackay and John Mackay who gave up their Saturday to officiate to allow our athletes to compete. Each club must provide at least three officials for this event. On  Saturday  27^th of April at our first CSSAL match also at Grangemouth  we are required to supply 5 officials- Names to John Mackay if you are available. 

Cobbler Hill Race , Arrochar Alps, West Highlands

The Scottish Hill Runners Championships kick off this Saturday with a large turn out of Shettleston athletes -A full report will be  posted as it becomes available

Results

Men : Dan Dry 3^rd , Ryad Chebbout 18^th , Chris Grant Pantry 20^th (2^nd M40), John Connaghan 45^th (2^nd M50), Andrew Shields 51st, Ross Cruickshanks 53rd, Cameron Muir 67^th, Angus Rodney 73rd, Bill Breckenridge 79th (7^th M50), Alex Hill 80^th 

Team 3^rd 

Ladies 

Anna Mcfadyen 5^th, Zoe Barber 6^th ,CJ Macphail 7^th, Bryony McLeod 12^th, Gemma Griffin 17^th (1^st U/23) Myrtle Breckenridge 18^th, Mary Wilson23^rd, Ruth Stanley 30^th 

Team 2^nd 

Lachlan Oates opened another chapter in a very successful athletic career when he ran his first Marathon in fine style – At his  first  attempt he finished 5^th in the Manchester Marathon in an excellent time of 2hrs 20.11 moving to 5^th fastest Shettleston Harrier over the distance. Lachlan is an international athletes over track, road and cross country and has been a mainstay of our men’s team for many years.

Congratulations to Rio Biddlecome (8.16 ) PB and Joseph Patterson (8.26) PB who finished 1^st and 2^nd at the Elder Park Junior Park Run 

The final event of the weekend was the Popular Round the Houses 10km at Grangemouth which also included the Scottish Students Championships. Again the weather was a major factor with the wind slowing down the times. This did not stop Elena Heger finishing 4^th in the Student Championships in a PB of 39.12 and 8^th lady overall

Results

Men 

Stewart Houston 37^th 35.06, Adam Peters 40^th 35.18, David Houston47^th 35.52, Michael Paxton 49^th (6^th M40) 36.00, Gerry Pelegri 51^st 36.26, Stephen Clark 179^th 42.31, Bob Porteous 469^th (1^st M75) 58.06 

Ladies 

Elena Heger 8^th (4^th Student) 39.12, Holly Morrison 9^th 40.16