EAST KILBRIDE AC OPEN CROSS COUNTRY 2015

A small and late mention that on Sunday 18th January was the 2nd East Kilbride Athletics Club Open Cross Country event.  As last year the course was at O'Cathian  Farm in Jackton.  Unfortunately due to the wintry weather there was a lower turnout however Calderglen Harriers had junior and senior athletes out competing.

 

The 3 junior athletes out this year were Lewis Moir, Lucy Bennett and Cameron Green.  First race up was the under 11s, girls and boys, who both ran a 1k distance.  Lucy was the only girl Harrier taking part in the field of 24 runners crossing the line in 4:33 and this was after the night before she was performing in her dance show.  So well done Lucy.

 

Next up in a field of 30 runners was the under 11 boys with Cameron Green being the first Harrier home in 3:44 in 14th place followed by Lewis Moir who is not officially quite in the under 11 age group did a respectable 3:56 in 23rd place.

 

So well done to all 3 athletes that took on this challenge and I am glad to see young Harriers out competing its all part of training to be better runners.

 

Richard

Link to Senior report: http://www.calderglen.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/east-kilbride-ac-open-cross-country.html

EAST KILBRIDE CROSS COUNTRY RACE

18/01/15, update @ 10:27am, the race is on

Sunday 18th January 2015

The East Kilbride XC race will be at O'Cathian  Farm, Hay Hill Road, Jackton, G74 5AN. Details are:

under 11 Girls, starting at 12.30pm, distance 1k
under 11 Boys, starting at 12:40pm, distance 1k
under 13 Girls, starting at 12:50pm, distance 2.1k
under 13 Boys, starting at 1:05pm, distance 2.1k
under 15 Girls, starting at 1:20pm, distance 4.2k
under 15 Boys, starting at 1:20pm, distance 4.2k
under 17 Girls, starting 1:45pm, distance 4.2k
under 17 Boys, starting at 2:20pm, distance 6.3k

Entry is on the day only and needs to be made by the athletes themselves rather than by the club.  Declarations are open from 11am with first race at 12:30pm.  Entry fee is £3 up to and including under 17s.

 

If you are entering I would prefer athletes to wear the Calderglen Harrier running vest.  They can be bought for £12 but I do have a selection of small vests that would suit most under 11s and small older athletes. Please ask me for one at training on Wednesday.

Regards,

Richard

 

WED 14 JAN SESSION CANCELLED

Session tonight cancelled

Calderglen Country Park is completely covered in snow and very picturesque during this calm period of weather. However the Met office has declared a Yellow warning of rain this afternoon and evening. There is due to be a heavy band of rain followed by snow.
Calderglen Harriers don't cancel lightly as you know but in this instance, in the interests of health and safety I must......sorry.

This message has been emailed to all parents of young athletes however please also spread the word.

Richard

WEEKEND ROUND UP

Saturday 10th January

Strathclyde Parkrun #240, 86th Morgan Beaton 31:17

http://www.parkrun.org.uk/strathclyde/results/latestresults/

Sunday 11th January

Junior Great Winter Run, Holyrood Park in Edinburgh (2.5k)

Lewis Moir, 12:50, 45th

http://www.greatrun.org/Results

Well done to both Morgan and Lewis for racing over the weekend.  Its good to do a bit of advertising for the club and will help both athletes with their training.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year to all young athletes, parents, coaches and parent helpers at Calderglen Harriers.

 

Lets have a fantastic 2015 with more training, more racing, all the help and support we can get and make 2015 an enjoyable, successful and fun year for the young athletes.

 

Training restarts on Wednesday 7th January at the usual time of 6:30pm to 8pm

For those that never took up the option to pay membership fees through standing order, fees are now due and should be given to Sarah on Wednesday.

Richard

PARKRUN RESULTS, SAT 20 DEC - SUN 21 DEC 2014

Victoria Junior Parkrun #11, 9th Lewis Moir 9:30, 2k event

Well done to Lewis Moir for his first time doing the Victoria Junior 2k Parkrun, first junior Harrier and a top ten position.  Keep up the good work.

http://www.parkrun.org.uk/victoria-juniors/results/latestresults/

Tollcross Parkrun #85, 17th Emma Lawton 22:58, 25th Richard Lawton 24:42, 5k event.  Coach Richard and daughter Emma did Tollcross Parkrun for the first time.

Emma was 17th overall, 2nd female out of field of 65 runners and 1st in age group. Well done Emma.

Results Link: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/tollcross/results/latestresults/

RELAY FUN !

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.

 

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.

 

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 4^th place out of 19 runners and lost out to 3^rd 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