McAndrew Teams

The teams and running order for the McAndrew road relay are here. The first legs are off at 3pm so please be there by 2:15pm at the latest (or let us know in advance that you are definitely on your way if on a later leg) such that we can declare the teams to the race organisers. If you have to pull out for whatever reason, then please let either Russell or I know on Saturday morning at the latest.

Grand Prix and scratch championships updated. Russell and Joanne leading the GP's and Scot and Julie the Scratch. Use the GP menu on the left to see the scores so far.

Alan

McAndrew Road Relay - 1st October 2011

The second race in the Grand Prix will be the McAndrew Road Relay at Jordanhill on Saturday 1st October (futher details will be announced at the club). Each leg is around 3.2 miles, 4 legs for men and 3 legs for ladies.

Please leave your name on this form if you are able to compete or see Russell at the club. See who has entered so far here.

Alan

Houston - The Result You Have Been Awaiting

Official times from the Houston Relay are now available on the Kilbarchan AC web site. The Calderglen times are:
Scot Hill 16:11, Jim Holmes 16:48, Gerry Mullen 17:44, George Stewart 17:36, team position 21st and 4th vets team.
Julie Beveridge 17:36, Joanne McEvoy 17:55, Frances Maxwell 18:31 7th Ladies team
Russell Couper 20:51
Well done to all. I will update the Grand Prix when I get back on Friday evening.
Alan

National 4km XC Championships

The National 4km cross country championship at Bellahouston Park has been brought forward from its traditional January/February time to Saturday 5th November. This makes sense given that all the short cross country relays are at this time of year too. I've added this event back into the Grand Prix as with the exception of last year when it clashed, the Harriers have always been big supporters of this event. This will be a pre-entry race only and Russell will update you on this as and when he has the details. The updated calendar of Grand Prix events is here and is also available from the Grand Prix web page on the left hand menu.
Alan

West District XC Relays - Change of Venue

For those who have entered the West District XC Relays on 8th October - the venue has changed from Bellahouston Park to Drumpellier Park in Coatbridge.


Drumpellier Park, Coatbridge with changing at St Ambrose High School, Blair Road Coatbridge (map reference: http://www.mapquest.co.uk/?q=Blair+Road+ML5+2EW+GB).


Alan

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)
Please leave your name on the relevent Blog at the top of this page if you want to run.

Houston Teams for Saturday

The teams for Houston are here. I can see jokers being deployed earlier than usual this year! The first leg is off at 2:30 and each leg is 2.7 miles so takes about 14 to 20 minutes. Presumably arrangements for travel were made at the club on Thursday but contact Russell if in doubt. There is a map showing the course, where you can park and registration (Church Hall) here.

I'm still in Sweden and can't be there so all the best to the Calderglen teams.
Alan