JUNIOR GREAT EDINBURGH WINTER RUN

Lewis in action

It was a big day in our capital on Saturday 9th January.  The main event was the Great Edinburgh Cross Country with international athletes from GB & NI, USA and Europe.  Team GB & NI had various Scottish based athletes in the team like Callum Hawkins & Andrew Butchart and one big British presence Mr Mo Farah!  Along side these events were junior international events and Scottish Athletics Inter-District championship - http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/inter-district-action-from-holyrood/

 

With international and local championships going there was also events for adults and kids to take part in.  Our own Calderglen Harrier rising junior star was young Lewis Moir who ran the Junior Great Edinburgh Winter Run.  It was 2.5K and he ran 11min 29sec. He came 35th out of 112 boys in his age group and his time was 1min 21 sec faster than last year so he was happy with his run. http://www.greatrun.org/great-winter-run/junior-great-winter-run

 

Well done Lewis and thanks to Mum Lynsey for letting me know and the picture.

PARKRUN ROUND UP 9th / 10th JANUARY

Victoria Park Junior Parkrun #61 (2k) - 10/01/16

7th, Ruby Byrne, 9:26, 12th parkrun
10th, Kai Wheeler, 9:38, 24th parkrun
13th, Ava Byrne, 9:59, 12th parkrun

77 runners in the field.  All three runners have improved their time since last weekend's parkrun, well done.

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

GREENMANTLE DASH JUNIOR RACE

Kai Wheeler took part in a locally organised race on Broughton on Saturday 2nd January.  There was events for both senior and junior runners with Kai taking on the junior event.

 

It was 1.5 miles course starting in the Broughton brewary car park through a school, over a wall, across a football pitch, over a fence, into a small but deep river, through a muddy wet marshy field, across another road, up through a mudbath of a field, turn at the base of the hill and back to the road and cheered all the way to  finish in the village.

 

Kai's finishing was 16:16.  Well done Kai for running this hill running race and doing the 2k parkrun the next day.

 

Thanks to Mark his Dad for pictures and info.

 

PARKRUN ROUND UP 2nd / 3rd JANUARY

Victoria Park Junior Parkrun #60 (2k) - 03/01/16

8th, Kai Wheeler, 9:42, 23rd parkrun
9th, Ruby Byrne, 9:57, 11th parkrun
15th, Ava Byrne, 10:19, 11th parkrun

71 runners in the field.  Well done and great way to start the new year.

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

Strathclyde Park Parkrun #287 (5k) - 02/01/15
129th, Brooke Conneff, 31:39, 4th parkrun

159 runners in the field.

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

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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

 

Lets have a fantastic 2016 with more training, more racing, all the help and support we can get and make 2016 an enjoyable, successful and fun year for the young athletes.

 

Training restarts on Wednesday 6th 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

CHRISTMAS FUN RUN 2015 - ANOTHER CRACKER!

Seniors with a few juniors Christmas 2015

As part of Calderglen Harriers annual Christmas races, for the 3rd year the junior Harriers Relay Christmas fun run took place on Sunday 13th December with a record entry of 36 athletes. As normal the teams age and ability were mixed up to try make it as fair and open as possible to all who took part. We had 12 teams of 3 runners under the guise of festive names sporting a well drawn picture of the team name by in-house artist Melissa Lawton. 

 

This year we had Snowmen, Christmas Puddings, Christmas Trees, Bells, Stockings, Crackers, Naughty List, Brussel Sprouts, Candy Canes, Wise Men, Presents and Christmas Carols.

 

Due to weather conditions and road works closed off part of the route to traffic the decision was made to do a safer and shorter route. With a course inspection and a pre-race jog around the course the route was declared safe to run on with no ice underfoot and we were ready for the off. So the route took the usual start and ran up towards the observatory turning right onto a small trail route leading to the zoo car park.  From there running the far side of the car park then down to the bottom turning right onto the road leading back the start with a final left turn.  This route benefited the "Mini" Harriers (under 9s) and allowed the older ones to test their speed on a short course.

 

This year's winning team was Christmas Puddings who were Thomas Traynor (Leg 1), Lewis Moir (Leg 2) and Megan Anderson (Leg 3) who all received their Nike vouchers for coming first.

 

The other teams finished in the following order: Bells-2nd, Stockings-3rd, Crackers-4th, Christmas Carols-5th, Wise Men-6th, Naughty List-7th, Candy Canes-8th, Brussel Sprouts-9th, Presents-10th and Snowmen-11th.

 

For the first time this year all runners who took part received a red technical t-shirt to mark the occasion alongside a selection box and a secret Santa present.

 

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.  The parents who volunteered to be marshalls around the course and to my family Team Lawton for pre, during and post race support to get this event going.

 

It is really appreciated. 

 

Could those with photos of the event please e-mail to me as I did not take any photos at the event.

 

Merry Christmas

Richard

 

See senior blog for report on the individual Christmas Handicap race with results. http://calderglen.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/christmas-handicap-another-colourful.html

PARKRUN ROUND UP 19 / 20 DECEMBER

Strathclyde Park Parkrun #284 (5k) - 19/12/15
26th, Richard Lawton, 23:21, 41st Parkrun

Coach out running today.  Hoped for a better time but it was windy!

130 runners in the field.

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

Victoria Park Junior Parkrun #58 (2k) - 20/12/15
4th, Lewis Moir, 8:21, 14th parkrun

65 runners in the field.  Well done Lewis and 3 seconds shy of your Pb.

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