Tuesday 30 August 2016

WEEKEND ROUND UP 27 / 28 AUGUST

Victoria Park Junior Parkrun #92 (2k) - 28/08/16

4th, Kai Wheeler, 8.47, 32nd junior parkrun

6th, Ruby Byrne, 8.53, 33rd junior parkrun

7th, Ava Byrne, 8.59, 36th junior parkrun

167 runners in the field.


Scottish Mid-Trail Champs, Saturday 27th August in Fife

Under 11 development 3k trail race

7th, Lewis Moir, 14.50

Combined boys and girls event with 14 runners in the field.

Well done to all runners out competing this weekend. This is what you train for and it would be good to get more junior Harriers out racing.

Richard

Monday 22 August 2016

THE SCOTTISH MID-TRAIL CHAMPIONSHIPS

First posted this back in July. The race is next weekend and if you are looking for race you can still enter....

The Scottish Mid-Trail Champs will be held on Saturday 27th August in Fife and online entry is available.  Fife AC have kindly agreed to host the championships, with Strathmiglo as the start/finish location for races for all age groups.  There are medals on offer from U15 through to U20/Seniors/Masters.
 
The U20/Senior/Masters race for men and women is over 12K with the U15 and U17 mixed gender races over 5K. For the U11 and U13 races, the distance is 3K.
 
There are U11 and U13 development races, too, but these are not part of the Scottish Championships as Fife AC host their ‘Festival of Trail Running’ and welcome all standard of athletes from beginners in this discipline to Scotland internationals.
 
Entries are now open online via the EntryCentral website.
 
Richard

Sunday 21 August 2016

PARKRUN WEEKEND ROUND UP 20 / 21 AUGUST

Victoria Park Junior Parkrun #91 (2k) - 21/08/16

5th, Kai Wheeler, 8.29, 31st junior parkrun, new Pb by 3 seconds

193 runners in the field.

Well done Kai for running a Pb only after having 1 session after summer break.

Wednesday 17 August 2016

JUNIOR SECTION TRAIL RACE PERFORMANCE AWARDS

First night back and 1 session under are belts. Well done everyone who attended.

I had the pleasure of rewarding some of the junior athletes with their performances from the club Trail race in June. 
 
Junior Section Trail Race Performance Awards 
The following young athletes were 1st Calderglen Harrier home in their age groups.  This year all Performance Award winners will get Odeon Cinema voucher.

1st Calderglen Harrier home in their age groups
Gabrielle Coffey, Under 9 Female, 1k
Frances Ede Santangeli, Under 9 Male, 1k

Libby Currie, Under 12 Female, 3k
Lewis Moir, Under 12 Male, 3k

Lucy Saez, Under 15 Female, 3k
Christopher McCarron, Under 15 Male, 3k

Coach Award (most improved athlete)
Gabrielle Coffey, Under 9 - nominated by Mark Saez
Christopher McCarron, Under 15 - nominated by John Mullen
Ruby Byrne under 11 - nominated by Richard Lawton

Well done to all the young athletes and their performances in the races and here is to a good 2016/17 season.

Richard

Monday 15 August 2016

TRAINING BACK ON

Training will resume on Wednesday 17th August at 6:30pm to 8pm

Remember fees are due from 1st August if you pay cash or cheque.  The people on standing order can you renew your standing orders for 1st August and 1st September payments.

We will notify you about fee changes for 1st October.
 
We look forward to seeing you all then.

Sunday 14 August 2016

PARKRUN WEEKEND ROUND UP 13 / 14 AUGUST

Victoria Park Junior Parkrun #90 (2k) - 14/08/16

21st, Ava Byrne, 9:03, 35th junior parkrun

176 runners in the field.

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

If anyone did Parkruns on 30-31 July and 6-7 August let me know I will put results on the blog. Always good to promote how we perform to the outside world.