When the race description information uses adjectives like “testing” and “undulating” you know a race will be hard and that applies to the Lasswade 10 mile road race. Winding round predominantly country roads just south of Edinburgh, the 10 mile route ranks high in degree of difficulty, featuring plenty of climbing in the first 6 […]
When the going gets tough … the tough get going and that applies to the Tortoises who braved the “character building” conditions at Callendar Park, Falkirk for the Scottish National Cross Country Championships on Sunday 22 February. Not only were weather conditions atrocious with rain and cold sleat combining with a bitter wind chill factor […]
For a bit of fun we have this month converted the February 5k results into age graded positions, I have posted these on the forum, Bobby jumps into first place and Kate into fourth, it would be interesting to get feedback weather you would like to see the monthly results also converted to age grading, […]
This months training schedule set by Graeme is on the forum page. There is the standard single Tuesday session where we run as a group with Thursday’s split into two sessions, a standard run of around four or five miles and a longer training session to improve speed or stamina. All beginners or new members […]
On Saturday Feb 1st, Kilmarnock played host to the Scottish Athletics Masters Cross Country Championships (athletes over 40 for this race) and Troon were represented by the dynamic duo of cross country racing, Anne Noble and Caroline Mutch. Cross country racing is renowned as a hard test and the Kilmarnock venue had its fair share, […]
Seventeen runners took part in the second club 5k of the year, on a near perfect night six PB’s were achieved. Jim Phillips narrowly pipped the ever improving Stewart Swan to land the first place honours with Fraser Mcphail in a close third place, there was also a welcome return to the 5K from John McKinley – […]
On Sunday 25th January, Strathclyde Park played host to the annual Scottish Veteran Harriers Road Relay Championship. This race is open to teams of runners over 35 years of age, with teams of 4 competing for the men and 3 for the ladies. The route is a 3.8 mile circuit around the mostly flat paths […]
Some Tortoises were quick of the block entering this marathon, limited to only 200 places it’s sure to sell out fast. A 12.30 start and is run on a flat four loop course where the triathletes will be finishing off there event on the same loop https://arrantriathlon.wordpress.com/
Congratulations to Caroline Mutch who finished 3rd vet at the recent East Kilbride cross country run, the whole course was covered in snow, a great result and reward for some hard training. Results on the 2015 results page
This a fantastic marathon and with direct flights from Glasgow to Bournemouth with Flybe its not to far away, if you fancy running this marathon please see George before booking. http://www.run-bmf.com/