HOUSTON RELAYS

On what turned out to be a warm and windy day 8 harriers made it to this years race.
On the 1st legs Scot Hill led the harriers A team with a time of 16.12 and our ladies were led by Julie Beveridge making her debut in this race with a time of 17.35 Russell Couper ran a single leg for the harriers B team in a time of 20.51 an 8 sec improvment from last year.
With only two 2nd leg runners Jim Holmes ran 16.45 and Joanne McEvoy ran 17.54 both not happy with their times when finished. We had a switch before declarations of our last two legs for the men so Gerry Mullen took on the 3rd leg and ran 17.44 and was happy enough with his time although he had found it tough (these races never get any easier) and running the 3rd and final leg for the ladies was Frances Maxwell recording a time of 18.31 and happy enough to get within 5secs of last years time as the conditions were tougher. The glory leg for the men went to George Stewart who came home in 17.36 and gutted that Julie was faster than him by 1 sec but we will have to wait for the official results as these can often differ from personal watches. George will be up all night.
Well done to those who took part and as that is the Grand Prix and Scratch contests up and running a quick caculation puts Julie and Scot leading the Scratch contests and in the GP due to jokers being played Joanne leads the ladies and Russell ans Scot share the lead in the mens.
Race 2 is next week at Jordanhill (McAndrew Relays)
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