Allan Scally report

We had 14 harriers running today but for the first time this season we didnt have a complete ladies team.
Frances led the ladies off with a time of 33.43 coming in about 3rd or 4th place and handing over to Joanne running 33.19. Both ladies played jokers today so have now pushed Julie into 3rd place but she still has jokers to play. With a space free in the ladies team Don Kennedy without any of his club running today joined our ladies and can now be referred to as Donna.
Onto the men and with 3 complete teams Davie Watt came home with a great run of 26.42 in about 6th place overall handing over to Jim Holmes who is still struggling a bit with form but still managed 31.44. Next up was Charlie McDougall keeping the team in the running for the vets prize with a time of 29.50 and handing over to Eddie Reid who was going to get the heavy rain towards the end of his run but looking well over his recent injury in 30.36 and bringing our A team into 2nd place in the vets race.
Our B team was led out by David Herbertson (31.25) followed by Andy Henderson (31.19) both running very close in times again. 3rd leg was our current GP leader George Stewart who was a little off the pace of others that he's competed with recently (33.01) and again getting the heavy rain on leg 4 was Brian McDougall straight from work running 31.35 and finishing 3rd vets team.
Our C team was led off by David Wardrope putting in another consistent performance 34.47  5 secs faster than last year and the same time as 2 years ago. then came the battle of the day, Richard Lawton on leg 2 and Hugh Simpson on leg 3, both have been nip and tuck for a while now and we had some trash talk going on at registration. the times were 37.30 and 37.12 respectively so Hugh comes out on top today. On the 4th leg was Russell Couper who warned both Hugh and Richard that he was trying to upset both of them but it wasn't to be 39.07 but closing on them, watch out guys I'm coming to get you.
GP and Scratch will be updated at Alan's convenience when he returns from Sweden
Next race is the National 4k XC next week and entries are now closed. A few photos from Joanne here. Photos from Frances also included (31.10.11).
Watch the Blog for arrangements for this race