Congratulations to our Senior Ladies team who secured the Gold Medal at the West District Cross Country Relays at Kings Park (Glasgow) on Saturday. What a way to celebrate Scottish Women & Girls in sports week! This comes after Fionnuala Ross won the Scottish 1/2 marathon title last weekend, leading the ladies to the team gold at Great Scottish Run event. Age is no barrier and it was confirmed this week that Avril Mason took the W40 title at the 1/2 marathon event.
The Kings Park venue was once a regular fixture on the Cross -Country scene with the Ronnie Kane Memorial races and in 1976 it held the Scottish Cross Country Relays.
Record entries were received for the event and the club supported the host club with John Mackay co-convenor, Elaine Mackay, Gary Woods and Raymond Loughran all helping to make sure the event went smoothly.
As was mentioned earlier it was a great day for the ladies – The A team of Aoife Carr (14.33), Hannah Terrance(15.07) and Fionnuala Ross (13.37) ran fantastic to secure the Gold medal – This was the 15th time the Shettleston Ladies have been on the podium- New members, Aofie and Hannah, won district medals for the first time for the club. Avril Mason (Ladies Captain ) has been building a great squad and it showed in the results with the B team 6th and the C team 10th
Ladies B team 6th : Avril Mason 15.47, Charlene McCallum 15.43, Ruth Joss 15.03
C team 10th : Holly Morrison15.28, Emma Baird 16.00, Amy Maclellan 17.25
Fionnula Ross also ran the fastest time of the day!
Five full men’s team started the race with the A Team finishing 6th over all and our Masters Team were 5th . With a number of our top runners missing this was a great start to the season. Congratulations to club member Jamie Burns who was running for Glasgow University who won the first leg and recorded the 2nd fastest time of the day.
A team 6th : Chris McGarrity 12.44, Daniel Bradford 13.24, Matthew Turner 12.51, Mark McKelvie 13.08
B Team 12th : Fergus Donnelly 13.31, David Houston14.05, Calum Oates 14.05, Cameron Young 13.18
C Team 66th : Adam Peters 15.09, Scott McKelvie 14.43, Michael Paxton14.05, Sam Lesley 14.14
Masters A team 5th ( 28th overall) : Paul Sorrie 13.53, Ian Burns 14.14, Walter Henderson14.52, Denis William 15.59
Masters B Team 15th (57th overall ) : John Oates 16.14, John Duffy 15.41, Ben Fullarton17.42, Duncan McAuley 16.00
Incomplete team : Richard Millar 18.40, Stephen Clarke 18.36
As well as seniors and masters our young athletes had their first outing over the country
Young Females
B Team 24th : Mairi Stephen 13.27, Imogen Millar 13.18, Ava Millican13.33
A Team 27th : Daisy Gildea 13.31, Katie Woods 12.24, Jesscia Grant 14.56
C Team 34th : Esme Guinea 13.37, Katie Burns 14.28, Kate Monaghan 13.38
Young Males
A team 35th : Lucas Millican 13.16, Sam McGowan 13.16, Adam Clifford 11.00
Many thanks to everyone who helped on the day – Mark Grant who brought the tent, John Duffy and Richard Millar who helped with teams and made sure the tent was taken away- We need people to take the tent to the events and bring it back – Have you did your turn?
Not content with running in the West District Cross Country Relay Championships on Saturday a few Shettleston men decide to run in the Neil McCover Memorial Half Marathon which included the West District Championships on Sunday. The Kirkintilloch course is not easy and Chris McGarrity won running just over 69mins. After having a busy day at Kings Park ,running ,giving out numbers and on tent duty, John Duffy took silver in the Masters Age Group running 1hr 26mins. Gerry Mason made up the trio and his time is still TBC
Next big event is the British Athletic Fell Hill Running Championships at Broughton Heights, Biggar next weekend followed by the National Cross -Country Relay championships at Cumbernauld on the 22nd.Lots of teams entered.
Parkruns
Despite many athletes from the club racing at the WD Cross Country Relays, there was still good attendance at the Parkruns across the country including some wins.
Firstly it was Pollok Parkrun where Dan Lowe came 1st place in 17.53.
Paul McGuigan dipped under 21 min in a time of 20.59 at Strathclyde Parkrun.
It was another win for Peter Avent this time at Vogrie Parkrun in a time of 15.54.
At Tollcross, Ronnie Strachan secured 2nd place in 19.23 and Andrew Shields ran31.21
A well deserved win at Springburn for Matthew Fox in 18.46, Stephanie Zimms also the other Shettleston Harrier finishing.
At Drumpellier Parkrun Gerard Mason finished in 24.43.
At Queens Parkrun Rodrigo Reis finished in 22.59.
Finally another win this time at Oriam Parkrun for Robert Simpson in 16.36.