Grant McLullich Sports Therapy Harriers' Prices

Note that Grant will be increasing his prices from 1st July but that Calderglen Harriers are still receiving a £5 discount per session such that we pay £24.
Alan

Eddie's Way May Become Reality

According to a Scottish Natural Heritage report published on Friday, Eddie Reid may in fact have been in the forefront of tourist development in Scotland when he trail blazed a new leg of the Harriers' West Highland Way relay a few years ago. Some details here. Thanks to Malcolm for pointing this out.
Alan

Trail Race 2012 - Wet but Wonderful

Body Surfing Jim Holmes crosses the finish line

The wet weather did not put the dampers on the hundreds of runners of all ages who ran in tonight's Calderglen Harriers Trail Race series. Young and old (particularly the young!) enjoyed the wet and muddy conditions. Thanks to all who helped, participated and supported and a special thanks to race director Russell Couper for pulling it all together once again.

Provisional results are below:
1k
3k
5k (missing results added to end)
10k

All the results from previous years are available on the Harriers' web site here.

Alan

Grand Prix Final Event - Vertical Mile Tonight

Race 16 of the Grand Prix series is tonight and there are positions that could change in both the lady's and men's competitions. Lets make it an exciting finish and have as many up at the club as possible for this traditional finale.
Alan

Trail Race - Harriers 10k Team Selection

Updated status 25/06/12 - all 7 runners listed below have confirmed availability. Should one pull out, then the first reserve is Stephen Phimister.


Updated Team Draw 25/06/12 - Stuart would prefer not to run, so one new name added.
Updated Team Draw 23/06/012 - Martin would prefer to help than run, so one new name added. Now increased to 7 Harriers running (and one correction as Davy Wardrope ran it last year)
As previously announced, a team of 7 Harriers to run the 10k will be selected from those who volunteered to help marshall or do some other job. Those selected may still be required to do some job before the start of the race but will be released in sufficient time to do a warm-up for the 10k.

Russell has provided me with the list of volunteers (excluding those who indicated in advance that they would not want to run and those who ran last year) and using the usual random number generator, the first 7 names to come out of the electronic hat are:
Geo Ferguson, Frances Maxwell, Ian Hughes, Andy Henderson, Jim Holmes, Richard Lawton, Hugh Simpson (underlined names have confirmed that they will run. Could the others confirm as soon as possible).


As per usual, if you would rather not run, please leave a comment on this post asap and I will draw a replacement name. It is good for Harriers publicity to have our runners out there in the 10k too, so this is also an important job.
Alan

Trossachs Training Camp 2012

22/06/12 - Only 12 places left!
Finally we are ready to launch TTC 2012, a weekend of running, stretching, learning and copious eating based at the Trossachs Backpackers Hostel, Callander from the evening of Friday 14th September through to early afternoon on Sunday 16th September. Due to slightly increased overall costs, the price for the weekend this year has gone up a fiver to £70 which includes your 2 nights bed and breakfast accommodation at the Trossachs Backpackers Hostel, a 2 course dinner at the Lade Inn on both the Friday and Saturday evenings, a comprehensive buffet lunch on the Saturday and Sunday and a technical T-shirt (not forgetting the preparatory work, leadership and motivation of all your club coaches). And if that was not good enough value,  we also intend to be inflicting sports massage on you this year, with a talk on the benefits and brief tune-ups for the inflexible.

Places are restricted to 28, including your coaches and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis on receipt of a completed booking form and a £40 deposit (or payment in full if you prefer). Cheques should be made payable to "Calderglen Harriers". Genevieve will be kindly gathering application forms and payments at ATHelite in Hamilton. Booking forms are available to download here, on the Harriers noticeboard at the Sports Club or from ATHelite.

Move Fast (but warm up first); this one usually fills up rapidly.
Alan

Rouken Glen 10k - Wet Wet Wet & Wet

This was Giffnock North’s 20th anniversary of the Rouken Glen 10k and a total contrast of summer weather from last year’s event from lovely dry day to torrential rain a year later around the same date....only in Scotland!  With the change of the Vertical Mile race I was expecting a group of Harriers lining up for the race but it only turned out to be myself and John McBride. Once we had found each other we joined the rest of the runners and the playing pipe band all huddled under the pavilion as with the poor weather this seemed to replace the mass aerobic warm up prior to the start.  As we all waited patiently for the 7:45pm start, runners started filtering over with 5 mins to go to minimise standing in the cold.  At the usual starting point it was a bit of a damp start (no joke intended!) one minute John & I were talking then we heard a horn blast and we were a way. From the start John went ahead and I ran my own race as this was my first competitive race event in 2012 after sustaining my calf injury late last year.
I took the first 2km in and around the park fairly easy as I knew the hills were coming and felt confident I could pass alot of people on the long ascent to the 6km mark.  On the 4km downhill section on Ayr Road to the finish I made my pace transition at the top of the road gradual to ease from hill climbing pace to a steady downhill pace to avoid having erratic breathing and a stitch which I have experienced in this event before.  Thankfully my experience and training with the Harriers paid off.  With the final section of route outwith the park on Rouken Glen road I was keeping an eye out for the speed camera as I knew from that point it would be just leading into the final up-hill 150m sprint to the finish and I was able to up my pace to give a final sprint to the finish, settling for a time of 52:21.

My target was 50 mins and to get through the race in one piece without sustaining or worsening my calf injury, 1 out of 2 is not bad.   After returning to training with the Harriers in April I felt I did the best I could, ran a good technical race and just need to work on getting fitter to increase my pace as I want to run as fast as I can.  My time was 1:31 slower than last year but it has set a marker to see what stage I am at and what I need to work on to lower my time to 50 mins then the high 40s’.
John McBride’s time was 48:12, 33 seconds slower than last year but John was happy with his time.  Also Dawn Buchanan was running and she clocked a time of 52:04.

Thanks to Richard for the race report.