Lynn McKenna made club history being the first lady to win the Senior Womens National Cross Country title at Falkirk on Saturday and leading her club to the team title. In a superb performance she led almost from the start over the 10km course and won by a large margin of 48secs from Nancy Scott of Edinburgh AC. Lynn has had an incredible  season adding the National title to her Inter District Title and her West District Title. Club President Elaine Mackay was delighted to present Lynn with the Bill Scally Memorial Medal and award from the club on Saturday. Lynn will be the first person to win the Shettleston Marathon trophy for the highest finish by a Senior Shettleston athlete in the ScottishAthletics championships. Any club would have been delighted with an individual medal from a member but we had two in the Senior Womens Race!

Brogan Wallace is a name which will not be recognised by too many club members but if you look at Scottish historical data you would see Brogan was a very talented young athlete winning national and district medals. Life took over and university/career meant she disappeared from athletics – she is certainly back with a bang being a surprising medalist when she finished 3rd behind Lynn and Nancy. With new crowned Scottish Internationalist Rosa Donaldson 6th, Emily Carroll 15th, Aoife Carr 23rd and, Birthday girl, Clare Stewart 25th the team title was won by a clear margin of 62pts from Edinburgh. Such was the strength of the team our next six finishers would have been 4th team over all. Cross country captain, Avril Mason was the first female from the club to compete in the National in 2007 when we become a mixed club in finishing 84th in 2004 – We had no team and she was the sole women representative – What a change! We had an incredible 21 women entered for the event and 16 ran – I believe the biggest entry/finishing for the club. This improvement is due to the hard work Avril, John Montgomery and others have put in well done to everyone!

Full results here

Women’s club results below..

PosNameCategoryGun time
1Lynn MckennaSen00:35:32
3Brogan WallaceSen00:37:06
6Rosa DonaldsonSen00:37:56
15Emily CarrollSen00:39:14
23Aoife CarrSen00:39:53
25Clare StewartSen00:39:59
40Hannah TerranceSen00:41:15
42Charlotte MckennaSen00:41:19
50Charlene MccallumSen00:41:58
57Avril MasonF5000:42:31
58Anna MacfadyenSen00:42:41
72Ruth JossSen00:43:52
79Holly MorrisonSen00:44:13
85Tara WalkerSen00:44:47
128Lily MillerSen00:47:30
177Naomi Browell  Sen00.50.15

The men’s team had a lot to live up to after the women’s performances but again they returned to the winning ways to claim bronze in the team competition. The total points for the first 6 finishers was a slender one point ahead of city rivals, Cambuslang. We have an excellent record in the National Cross Country winning 57 team medals (19 Golds, 16 Silver and 22 bronzes).
Taha Ghafari was first over the line for the club finishing 9th overall. After the race he was presented with the  Wille Laing Medal and the Flockhart award by the Club President, Elaine Mackay. Again an incredible turnout with 31 athletes finishing the race from the club.

Men’s club results…

Pos 3 Score  178

PosNameCategoryGun timeScore
9Seyd taha GhafariSen00:32:019
24Jamie BurnsSen00:32:4924
28Philip NeilsonSen00:32:5828
30Ross GoodSen00:33:0530
39Lachlan OatesSen00:33:1539
48Fred DaviesSen00:34:0148
50Jonathan MooreSen00:34:05 
68Andrew TaylorSen00:34:48 
83Cameron MuirSen00:35:27 
84Robert SimpsonM4000:35:29 
102Luke HowardSen00:36:02 
140Joe BartonSen00:37:09 
142Jethro LennoxM4000:37:11 
145David i HoustonSen00:37:19 
167Stewart HoustonSen00:37:47 
172Paul SorrieM4000:37:50 
177Andrew ShieldsSen00:38:01 
191Calum OatesSen00:38:45 
194Michael PaxtonM4000:38:50 
203Chris Grant PantreyM4000:38:59 
214Iain BurnsM4000:39:16 
232Callum ButterworthSen00:39:44 
274Gerard PelegriSen00:40:35 
315Ross CruickshanksSen00:41:53 
401Toby HessionSen00:44:34 
405John j DuffyM6000:44:44 
494John OatesM6000:47:26 
513Gary FoxM5000:48:01 
545Joseph HaugheyM4000:49:32 
551Stephen ClarkM4000:50:01 
576David MurphyM5000:51:52 

It was great to see some fantastic performances by our young athletes in the races earlier in the day over the different age groups.
Zoe Roberts (12) in the U/13 being the pick of these 

Young athletes club results…

RacePosNameTime
U13 girls12Zoe Roberts13:45
U13 girls29Eilidh Stephen14:23
U13 girls75Charlotte Reilly15:22
U13 boys30Euan Grant13:13
U13 boys58Ciaran Curley13:53
U15 girls57Mairi Stephens19:03
U15 boys89Sam McGowan17:51
U17 women55Kate Monaghan28:26
U17 men43Matthew Fox21:46

Running in the even more historic English National cross country championships was hill runner Alex Clarkston running for Kent AC. He came in 733rd out of an impressive field of 1,781 in the senior mens race around Parliament Fields in London.

As we finish the Cross Country season we would like to thank all our coaches, parents, officials and athletes for their continually support. Next weekend we see our biggest club event the Allan Scally Memorial Road Relay with over 1000 athletes travelling from around Scotland. We can always do with more help. Come to Glasgow Green (Glasgow Football centre at 11am if you can help).

Belfast Bound for Scott and other parkruns with many personal bests

Many of the club members were in Falkirk, with the the national cross country taking precedent at the weekend with a handful of Shetts at the park runs in pleasant conditions.

Nearly everyone ran Glasgow based park runs with the exception of Scott Mckelvie who ran over in Belfast with a not too shabby time of 17.37 for 7th place. Scott is currently back racing again after his marathon PB at Valencia in 2024 and is training alongside some of his clubmates for the next marathon.

Meanwhile back at Drumpellier Parkrun, Gerard Mason ran 26.25 for 66th position.

At Elder Parkrun Rio Biddlecombe ran a PB of 20.28 for 21st place, Rowan Lennox was next over the finish line in 7th female in 23.06 with Jethro Lennox in 23.07.

Beatrice Baynham-Wainwright ran a PB of 26.31 at Linwood parkrun for 17th in her age category.

At Pollok Parkrun Raymond Loughran continued his sweeper duties in a time of 52.11.

Rebecca and Ellie Ryan were running at t he popular undulating Springburn course. Rebecca finished first in her age group in a time of 28.29 with Ellie finishing 1st also in her age group in a time of 33.13.

At the popular and fast Strathclyde Parkrun course, Kirsten Viera Da Luz ran 25.18 for 22nd female, while Bob Porteous tackled the tough Tollcross Parkrun course in a time of 28.38 for 54th place.

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