A wet and windy day was forecast for
Calderglen Harriers annual Christmas Fun Run on Sunday 14th December 2014. Back due to the success from last year, the
fun run for the young athletes took the format of a relay race to encourage
participation from all age groups. The response from the young athletes was overwhelming
with 33 taking part beating 2013’s record entry of 28.
Despite a few call offs due to seasonal
colds & flu’s, we had 11 teams comprising of 3 young athletes under the
guise of festive names. The teams were
Crackers, Elves, Christmas Puddings, Snowmen, Turkeys, Reindeer, Stockings,
Brussel Sprouts, Sleighbells, Stars and Carol Singers.
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| 2014 contenders |
As always to get into the festive spirit
of the event it was gently encouraged for all to wear festive fancy dress and there
was a wide range of runners with festive costumes on display. We had Thing 1 & 2 from Dr Seuss’s Cat in
The Hat, Santas, Christmas Hat & Jumper runners, Batgirl and Michael
Jackson in Thriller guise. I grant you the later not particular festive but this
adds more fun and variety to the race. Each runner in their team ran 1
lap of the Christmas Handicap route covering 1.3k totalling each team running
3.9k. In old money that’s 0.8 miles per lap totalling 2.4 miles.
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| Last minute check of leg 2 runners! |
First leg runner Rudi Jordan had the
hard job of setting a sustainable winning pace, leg two runner Holly McAneny
had the hard job of maintaining the lead that Rudi worked hard for and Emma
Lawton had the third leg glory run leading the Reindeer’s to victory in a total
time of 16:56. Congratulations to the 2014 winning team, Reindeers. That’s now 2
years in a row Holly has been in the winning team so an extra well done to
Holly. In second place was Christmas
Puddings who were Sarah Dunn, Fergus Kane and Helen Anderson and third place
was Snowmen who were Benjamin Fegan, Libby Currie and Haleigh Muir.
Two of the older junior Harriers
took on the seniors and did the full 4 mile (6.5k) individual course which consisted
of 5 laps. They were Marc McQuade and Emma Lawton who both did a lap in the
junior relay so they actually both did 6 laps. Again both young runners
showed they more than capable of holding their own on this fun but tough
event. Emma finished in a solid 4th
place out of 19 runners and lost out to 3rd place to her Dad
Richard. This is the only chance Richard
has to beat Emma in a race. Emma’s time
of 27:21 was the fastest female of the day. Marc McQuade returned to this event
zipping round the big ones in a great time of 29:58. Well done to both.
A big thank you to all the parents for
bringing their kids along and supporters who there to cheer them
running in this winter weather. It is
really appreciated. Official photos
should be in the EK News in the coming week, courtesy of John McIntyre.
Merry Christmas
Richard
See senior blog for report on the
individual Christmas Handicap race with results. http://calderglen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ho-ho-ho.html
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