WHAT A WEEKEND THAT WAS

It doesn't matter that were all isolated from each other as we demonstrated again what a strong club we are over the weekend doing Scottish Athletics virtual challenge. Despite being apart the encouragement given and received was phenomenal. We all ran separate courses but all for one cause.
We seen as the leaderboard was updated regularly that our Ladies went into the lead and remained there most of the weekend only being caught on the Monday evening and finishing in a fantastic 3rd place. I must add that the official team results are not gender specific but are all mixed teams which you can see below. On the total distance covered by clubs for a middle sized club we done exceptionally well punching way above our size finishing 2nd with a total of 173.61k pushing Cambuslang into 3rd by 1.09k. Bellahouston RR won this by a country mile beating us by 129k but you must consider they have about 5x our membership.As you will see from the breakdown below we also had some fantastic individual performances in the age categories. I also have to give an apology to Sandy on here. Despite thinking I had entered everyone with a valid SA number it turned out I hadn't entered Sandy. Not sure how but will be more vigilant for the next event. Althought not on the results its worth noting Sandy ran a superb 5.94k.
The next event is a 30min challenge but theyre looking for elevation gain. Same rules about loops and no point to point the one addition is there should be no significant height gain from start to finish. Basically what you go up you must come back down. This will commence on Friday 19th June for the 4 days over the weekend. Anyone whos membership number has expired get it renewed as soon as possible so its there when I do the entries.
Without further ado here are the final team positions and a breakdown of age category positions.

The overall distance challenge we were 2nd 173.61k

Mixed master teams    6th    A Derrick,  G McParland,  F Ferguson and  J Thomson

                                   16th   I Hughes,  G Lindsay,       L Buchanan and  R Kelly

Mixed senior teams    2nd    C Wright,   A Buchanan,   J Beveridge and  K Allen

Mixed open teams      6th     A Derrick,  G McParland,  J Beveridge and  K Allen

                                  13th    I Hughes,   G Lindsay,      C McSorley and  A Lessells

                                  20th    M Howell,   C Wright,        F Ferguson and J Thomson

                                  28th    S Phimister,  D Wardrope,   M Beaton and L Buchanan

Age category positions

Senior women    13th C McSorley       16th M Beaton

W35                   2nd  J Beveridge       4th K Allen            6th A Lessells

W40                   14th J Thomson        23rd  L Buchanan

W50                 13th  R Kelly

W55                 2nd F Ferguson

Senior men     21st    C Wright

M35                19th     A Buchanan

M45                 15th   G Lindsay         24th D Wardrope     34th R Lawton

M50                 5th=    G McParland       5th=    I Hughes     14th M Howell      17th  S Phimister

                        23rd    J Holmes            27th  G McInally

M55                 2nd     A Derrick    17th J Mearns    20th E Reid    24th R Couper

M60                  10th K Leinster

M65                 4th W Buchanan      6th D Searil