As part of our 25th anniversary celebrations, we had our first ‘foodbank run’ this week, organised by our Club Secretary Catherine Laurence. Our aim was to collect at least 250 items by Wednesday 12th March 2025, to deliver to the Glasgow South East Foodbank in the Govanhill area, during our training that evening. This was a great success with our members donating 351 items (185.9kg). We loaded up a car with the goods and transported these along, while our training group ran to the foodbank premises. While there, our members were given a short talk about the work of the organisation by Denise, the foodbank manager. Notwithstanding the items donated, a number of cash donations were made by several members who couldn’t make it along. This was the GSE Foodbank’s largest single donation since Christmas. Thankyou to everyone involved. www.glasgowse.foodbank.org.uk Unit1, Govanhill Workspace, 69 Dixon Road, Glasgow G42 8AT
Daily archives: March 16, 2025
The British Masters Athletics Federation Cross Country Championship ran at Tollcross Park on Saturday 15th March 2025, where Jen Conway was the sole Bella on duty for the 6k course on lovely sunny, spring day. Jen ran another brilliant XC race, as she has all season, with 23:41 to finish 3rd FV35. Hot on the heels of the Inverness HM last weekend, was the 41st Alloa HM on Sunday 16th March. It was a large field with 1864 finishers, and was well organised as always. 39 Bellas ran in near perfect conditions in the shadow of the Ochils. There were great results again, with a large number of fantastic PBs and 5 men in the top 50, with just about the same for our ladies. Our top 3 finishers were (M) Sean Coyle (1:14:37 PB), Bryan Mulgrew (1:15:11), Kenny Osborne (1:17:18) (F) Christie Lamb (1:30:49), Rhona Fraser (1:30:52), Poppy Bowie (1:32:09 PB). Full event results are at https://live.sportsystems.co.uk/Results.aspx?CId=20246&RId=15172 Huge congratulations to Bryan Kerr, who ran a fantastic PB of 2:40:32 at the Barcelona Marathon on Sunday too. Bryan’s impressive training regime clearly paying off again.