The Cross Country season got off to slow start for the club with this weekend testing the resources of the club to the fullest. The venue for the West District Cross Country Relays was the tried and tested course at Kilmarnock and it was more like an early spring day than the downpour of last year.
We have had athletes in all the age groups and some early promise for the winter was on show by many.
Two boys took part in the Young Male race with Naod Woldeselassie (11.26 U/13) and Matthew Fox (9.24 (12th fastest of the day – U/17)
The Young female teams placed 17th and 20th in a field of over 50 -Age group U/13,U/15,U/17
Results below
A Team -Zoe Roberts 11.21, Mairi Stephen 11.41, Kate Monaghan 12.22
B team – Eilidh Stephen11.48, Emma Locke 11.37, Imogen Millar 12.51
Moving on the men we fielded two teams -Congratulations to our Masters team who picked up the bronze medal.
A Team – 7th Philip Neilson 11.30,(8th fastest ) ,Sam Lesley 12.22,Andrew Taylor 12.14 ,Callum Butterworth 13.17
Masters – 3rd Paul Sorrie 13.08,Denis Williams 14.48 ,Michael Paxton13.01, John Oates 15.36
The ladies were just out of the medals finishing 4th with Lynn McKenna recording the 3rd fastest time of the day .It was also great to see Ruth Joss back in the club vest after the birth of he baby boy – Felix
A Team – 4th Charlotte McKenna 14.45 ,Hannah Terrance 14.35 ,Lynn McKenna 13.23
B Team – Ruth Joss 14.47.Charlene McCallum 14.58
Thank you to our club officials Gary Woods and John Mackay and of course Elaine Mackay who worked throughout the day for the club.
With the Great Scottish Run on this weekend many runners were missing and we look forward to them returning for the National Relays.
Saturday saw the Great Scottish Junior races at George Square, see the results below
Great Scottish Junior Run results
Boys Age 5-8 Green Wave – 1 mile – Adrian Redlica 2nd boy
Girls Age 5-8 Purple Wave – 1 mile – Olive Lennox 4th girl
Boys Age 9-11 – 2.5km – Rio Biddlecombe 10:43 7th boy; Joseph Paterson 11:27 11th boy; Ruaridh Johnson 12:38 28th boy; Alasdair Johnson 15:41 101th boy
Girls Age 9-11 – Rowan Lennox 10:57 2nd girl; Molly Brown 12:36 11th girl
Girls Age 12-15 – Alexia Rigg 12:44 16th girl
Also on Saturday Liz Burns was in George Square with a host of our young coaches promoting the club and working with Glasgow Life with a Come and Try Area. Thank you to them all for giving up their Saturday.
Sunday saw our older athletes competing at the Great Scottish Run 10k and 1/2 Marathon
Jamie Burns repeated history when he claimed a win at the Great Scottish Run 10km. The question was asked, who has won one of the junior races on the Saturday and went on to win a senior race on a Sunday – Answers on a postcard to club secretary. Jamie ran a very controlled race to win in an excellent time of 29.55 on a very testing course from club mate Taha Ghafari who ran 30.19. Both boys have been in excellent form and they lead home Ross Good Giffnock and the legend who is Chris Thomson- Olympic runner ,European medallist, who was making his last appearance in Scotland. Great day for the club with the Blue and Gold vest at the front in such a high profile event. They were also joined in the race by Stephen Clarke (41.16) and Graeme Brown (48.1) who ran a Personal Best
Follow on from the 10km the club had 29 athletes in the Great Scottish Run ½ Marathon. We had 3 ladies in the top 10 of the ladies section – Brogan Wallace (79.10) who finished an excellent 3rd lead home Aoife Carr (80.16 ) and ladies captain, Avril Mason (81.58).
First home in the men’s race for the club was new member, James Wooton, who finished 8th in a time of 69.14
It was great to see such a great turnout and new faces in the club vest
Results subject to correction below
| James Wotton | 69.14 |
| Calum Harrington-Vogt | 71.17 |
| Johnathon Fairgreaves | 75.36 |
| Max McKee | 75.50. |
| Scott McKelvie | 77.25 |
| Gerry Pelegri | 78.17 |
| Brogan Wallace | 79.10. |
| Ronnie Strachan | 79.15 |
| Aoife Carr | 80.16 |
| Iain Burns | 80.28 |
| Avril Mason | 81.58 |
| Calum Stevenson | 82.29 |
| Andrew Bryson | 82.32 |
| William Bradley | 82.53 |
| Ross Crawford | 88.10. |
| Adam Peters | 89.01 |
| Toby Hesson | 90.48 |
| Holly Morrison | 92.01 |
| Lachlan Calder | 95.40. |
| Jamie Platts | 95.49 |
| Lily Miller | 98.44 |
| Jenna Pearson | 98.48 |
| Joe Haughey | 102.32 |
| Mark Russell | 102.40. |
| Amy MacLellan | 103.16 |
| David Murphy | 104.27 |
| Naomi Browell | 114.45 |
| Fergus Donnelly | 119.08 |
| Bob Porteous | 124.15 |
| Kirsten Veira Du Lux | 133.41 |
| Mhairi Donaldson | 145.48 |
Another congratulations is due to former member, Nicky Devlin of Aberdeen FC, who at the age of 30 has been picked for the Senior Scottish Football Squad. Nicky was an excellent young athlete with the club around 2006-08 running 2.06.34 (800m ) and 58.38 (400m) as an U/15 athlete. We know he still talks about his time with the club with fond memories