This Saturday 20th January we had the West League XC team event. Where both the juniors and seniors represented the club.
In the U11 girls we had 4 girls running! Charlotte, Nina, Sophie and Jessica. The girls team finished in a fabulous 6th out of 18 teams.
In the U11 boys we had Innes.
In the U13 girls we had Ailsa.
In the U17 we had Francis and Kai, combining to finish in 3rd out of 7 teams in the team event 😊
Well done to all the juniors brilliant running!
We want to special well done to Charlotte who came 2nd place, also to Sophie and Jessica who both made their debut. It was also great to have Francis back running with the Harriers.
In addition to this nine seniors/master’s participated in this event. Despite the unfavourable weather and challenging muddy conditions on the course, the runners persevered.
The results were as follows:
- The first Calderglen Harrier to finish was Jordan Stewart, who completed an impressive run in 30:55 and leading the overall men’s team to a creditable 10th out of 24 teams.
- Coach Alan Derrick, came in second with a time of 32:31. This was his first cross-country race for the club in a long time, and he performed exceptionally well, leading the masters team to a 5th place finish from 15.
- Andrew Buchanan finished third with a time of 32:34. Despite currently training for the London Marathon, Andrew was committed to ensuring he had enough stamina for another long run this week.
- Jim Mearns finished in an excellent 37:38 time, followed by Kevin McPhillips in 40:18 and Russell Couper in 49:57.
In the women's category, we had 3 ladies representing the club.
- Karen Allen finished first harrier with an outstanding run in 35:40, taking 4th place in the masters category and leading the masters team of Karen and Alison to 2nd place from 13 teams.
- Alison Lessells came in second harrier with a time of 38:00 and Julia Pechlof was third in 39:13, helping the overall ladies team to 6th position from 20 teams 😁
On behalf of the club, congratulations to all. It was wonderful to see so many of you representing the club (full results available here).
Julia
2 comments:
Julia, thanks for a great report and to Lorraine for capturing the considerable effort being made by all the Harriers in pictures. For a small club we really out performed our size individually and in the all important team competitions. However, we can do even better by fielding more than the minimum complete teams in every category at the next race on 10th Feb in Erskine (the final race of the series). For every extra team member we field above the minimum per team, we impose penalty points on our competitors. So every Harrier really does count in this league format.
Alan
You're welcome Alan. :)
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