National Cross Country Relays, Mugdock Trail Race and Abbey 10k Dash action

History was made on Saturday for the club when the ladies team won bronze in the ladies’ event at the National Cross Country Relays at Cumbernauld. In 2004 the club admitted girls/ladies for the first time although Shettleston Harriers Ladies had close affiliations with the then, men’s only club. You will find a familiar name in the only other time a Shettleston lady has won a medal at this event – Elaine Mackay in the session 1994-95!

It was a great effort from the ladies and we believe Fionnuala Ross recorded the 2^nd fastest time of the day behind GB Internationalist and European Cross -Country Champion ,Megan Keith. It was a great all- round effort from the girls who had already won the West District Cross Country Relay Championships a few weeks ago. Avril Mason is doing a great job getting the girls out with 3 teams on the start line 

A team 3rd

Aoife Carr 15.02, Ruth Joss 15.22, Hannah Terrance 15.17, Fionnuala Ross 13.51

B Team 17^th 

Avril Mason 15.49, Emma Baird 16.45, Tara Walker 16.40, Charlene McCallum 16.29

C Team 

Amy Maclellan 17.24, Mhairi Donaldson 21.44, Carly Monaghan 20.57

A vast improvement saw the Men’s team placing 6^th in a highly competitive race. Taha Ghafari got us to a good start finishing 3^rd on leg 1 just in front of Jamie Burns who was running for his university. Solid runs from Chris McGarrity, Lachlan Oates and Matthew Turner saw us finishing 6^th  out of a field of 122 teams.

A Team 6^th 

Taha Ghafari 12.22, Chris McGarrity 13.05 , Lachlan Oates 12.27, Matthew Turner 13.05

B Team 30^th 

Michael Paxton14.10, Sam Lesley 13.56, Daniel Bradford 13.10, Fergus Donnelly 14.17

C Team 63rd

Fred Davis 13.41, Adam Peters 15.29, Scott McKelvie 15.17, Stephen Clarke 18.25

The Master Men M40 supplied the second medal of the afternoon when they finished 3rd

M40 Masters A team 3^rd 

Paul Sorrie 14.15, Iain Burns 14.22m, Chris Grant-Pantrey 14.22, Jethro Lennox 14.26

M40 Masters B team 19^th 

Denis Williams 16.00, John Oates 16.32, Duncan McAuley 16.36, Richard Millar 20.05

The M50 Master teams finished just out of the medals in 4^th position 

Walter Henderson 15.20, John Connaghan 15.00, John Duffy 16.30

With school holidays playing havoc with the Young athlete’s teams, we were unable to put on a full range of age groups for the girls but four of them, Ava Millican 12.26, Katie Burns 12.41, Katie Monaghan 12.46 and Jessica Grant 13.38 managed to get a run

The boys team finished 50^th  

Sam McGowan 11.53, Matthew Fox 9.47, Adam Clifford 10.23, Lucas Millican 12.00

On Sunday 4 athletes were not satisfied with the mud of Cumbernauld but ran in the Mugdock Country Park Trail Race – Placing 1st to 4th!

1^st Fred Davis, 2^nd Fergus Donnelly, 3^rd Chris Grant-Pantrey, 4^th Paul Sorrie 

Meanwhile Peter Avent made the trip to Leeds to finish 20^th in Leeds Abbey Dash in a time of 30.27

At Grangemouth on Saturday saw the 1st SA Throws Event of the season, in terrible conditions Louise Clifford throw 15.16 in the Javelin