Weekend round-up – mountains, hills & mud

In another very busy weekend for the club athletes were competing around the world and all over Scotland.

Pride of place must go to Ross Gollan who was competing for GB in Chiang Mai (Thailand) in the World Mountain Running Championships. He finished 20^th in the up and down short race in a World class field and he was part of a GB team which finished 5^th.

Ross Gollan far right with the rest of the Scots who made the GB team. Photo thanks to Jacob Adkin

Closer to home a large group of Harriers travelled to Kirkcaldy in Fife for the Scottish Short Course Cross Country Championships. After the recent success of the Ladies team the men were determined to outshine the Ladies this week. They were rewarded with an excellent bronze in the team race with Lachlan Oates, Taha Ghafari, Chris McGarrity and Daniel Bradford the counting four. It was great to see large numbers out and 17 men competed.

Results below

	Team	Pts	Team member	Time	Pos	Cat	Cat pos
3	Shettleston Harriers	102	Lachlan OATES	00:11:35	11	SEN	9
			Seyd TAHA GHAFARI	00:11:43	18	SEN	14
			Christopher MCGARRITY	00:12:00	36	SEN	25
			Daniel BRADFORD	00:12:01	37	SEN	26
			Mark MCKELVIE	00:12:22	56	SEN	39
			Fred DAVIES	00:12:34	72	SEN	51
			Cameron YOUNG	00:12:43	87	SEN	63
			Sam LESLEY	00:13:04	114	SEN	81
			Fergus DONNELLY	00:13:16	130	SEN	90
			Paul SORRIE	00:13:26	150	V40	12
			Michael PAXTON	00:13:28	155	SEN	103
			Iain BURNS	00:13:34	170	V40	18
			David I HOUSTON	00:13:49	198	SEN	126
			Scott MCKELVIE	00:14:07	227	SEN	143
			Andrew TAYLOR	00:14:27	255	SEN	156
			John OATES	00:15:39	356	V60	11
			Mark GRANT	00:17:38	452	V40	84

The ladies also had a reason to celebrate as their 5^th place was the highest, they had finished in the team competition since they ladies and men become one club. This continues the great start to the season for them. Again large numbers out for the ladies

	Team	Pts	Team member	Time	Pos	Cat	Cat pos
5	Shettleston Harriers	172	Aoife CARR	00:13:58	28	SEN	21
			Hannah TERRANCE	00:14:05	33	SEN	24
			Avril MASON	00:14:40	50	V40	5
			Holly MORRISON	00:14:54	61	SEN	38
			Charlene MCCALLUM	00:15:03	68	SEN	44
			Tara WALKER	00:15:03	69	SEN	45
			Emma BAIRD	00:15:21	86	SEN	53
			Kirsty MANN	00:16:01	119	SEN	66
			Amy MACLELLAN	00:16:25	140	SEN	78
			Carly MONAGHAN	00:17:53	194	SEN	10

In the younger age groups, the following athletes made the trip to Kirkcaldy

U/15 Girls Ava Millican 77th

U/15 Boys Matthew Fox 24th

U/17 Girls Iman Djoudi 50^th

Jessica Grant 59th

U/17 Boys Adam Clifford 51st

Joseph Reilly 71st

Connor Ballantine 81^st

13^th Team

Thank you again to the team mangers/parents and especially Mark Grant who transported the club tent to Kirkcaldy – Please take your turn in doing this – everyone wants to use it but only a few transport it!

On a slightly hillier course 6 runners travelled to compete in the Tinto Hill race

Results Alex Clarkson 18^th Andrew Shields 22^nd John Craig 46^th Gavin Finbow 141st

and in the Junior Tinto race Rowan Lennox finished 2nd and Euan Grant-Pantrey 4th

Congratulations to John Duffy who finished 11^th (65.44) and 2^nd V50 in the Templeton 10mile Race in Dundee.

On Sunday it was great to see a large number of our younger athletes compete in Springburn Harriers School/Club junior cross country races at Kirkintilloch. Full results are not available yet but we know Ronia Jatto (1^st pre-school), Adain Grant(3^rd P2), Rowan Lennox (1^st P3/P4) and Louis Millican (1^st P3/4) were all on the podium.

We had many other young athletes who competed and we will get the results up ASAP.

It was great see the young athletes enjoying getting covered in mud -not sure if the Mums and Dads liked this! Some photos of the youngsters below