Ladies off to UK Trial, Annie on National Academy, Road Races & Parkruns

It is now official our senior ladies’ team will represent Scotland at the UK Trial for the honour to represent the UK in the European Clubs Championships early next year. Liverpool is the venue for the trial and this is the 3^rd year in a row the girls have represented Scotland .They have come  a long way in 20 years since girls being part of the club. They also  finished 2nd in the Scottish Athletics Cross Country Team Challenge team   just behind Edinburgh AC. Another bit of great news was Annie McLean being added to the National Academy -This is the first athlete from the club to be added .Girl Power !

This  weekend saw a number of our club members taking the chance to compete in local 10km races  

Results below :

Newton Road Races 

10km 

7^th Calum Oates 35.42, 10^th David  I Houston 36.07 (David took a bad fall during the races)

145^th Katie Burns U/17 48.10 -Katie Finished 2^nd Junior Female, 258^th Bob Porteous M60 57.23 

3km -Young Athletes 

9^th Rowan Lennox 12.42, 11^th Rio Biddlecombe 13.28, 20^th Sebastian Wallace 14.28, 26^th Oliver Allen 15.56 , 29th Rebecca Ryan 16.50, 42nd Ellie Ryan 18.47

Jimmy Irvine 10km 

2^nd Cameron Muir 33.06, 169^th Joe Haughey M40 46.18 

Parkrun – Perfect conditions for park runners at weekend

There was a lower turnout than usual this weekend due to the Newton Roadrunners 10k and the Jimmy Irvine 10k at Bellahouston, however running conditions were perfect with no wind or rain.

At Pollok Parkrun, Ruth Stanley finished in a time of 28.09, while at Finsbury Parkrun, David Murphy finished in a time of 22.41.

At Plean Parkrun, Bryony Macleod was 3rd woman in a time of 29.20.

At Tollcross Parkrun, the familiar battle continued with Iain McDonald and Ronnie Strachan, with Ronnie settling for a not to shabby 19.19 and second place.

Over to Drumpellier Parkrun where John Toms ran 25.58 and Kevin Armstrong ran 27.50. 

Meanwhile at Jesmond Parkrun, Fred Davies ran a time of 29.43. On the west coast at Levengrove Parkrun, Ruth Joss ran a time of 19.26 for 3rd overall and 1st woman.

Finally at Elder Parkrun, Raymond Loughran ran 53.12.