A busy weekend for the club! Friday evening saw a great turnout at the Harrier’s popular Brian Goodwin 10k, in nearby Pollok park. A friendly welcome and a lovely evening, with Callum Hawkins and Luke Traynor going head-to-head at the sharp end, and the beer and burger a popular reward for everybody who took part (as well as valuable club championship points!). We had a superb 40 runners complete the course, and many members out and about on the course supporting the local event. Delighted to report that Ann Robin was overall third lady home in a fantastic 39:10, and together with Louise Ross and Shona Donnelly, took home the women’s team prize. Well done! Graeme Paterson led the club’s men home in a very impressive 34:59. Best of all, a healthy number of PB’s and season bests. A full race report available on the Harriers website, and the full club breakdown on stuweb. Thanks to the Harriers for once again staging such a super event. A good number of member’s popped along for an easy (or not so easy!) recovery parkrun on Saturday morning, then on Sunday morning 24 members also helped out with marshalling the start of the Glasgow Men’s 10k, a great way to support the many men out taking part as well as help raise the club’s profile. Congratulations to everybody that took part, particularly all the father’s! Particular well done to the 8 members who ran the event, led home by Craig Reid who finished in 4th overall, and Stephen McQuade with a huge PB. Thanks to Camilla Simms and Kevin Queenan for the pics. Loads more photos to be had on our Facebook page, and members are active on our Strava club too.
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We’re pleased to share the news that Bellahouston Road Runners has recently become a charity: a Scottish Charitable Incorporate Organisation (SCIO). Our charity number is SC047300. All club members should now have received a fuller explanation in an email from Camilla – with links to the OSCR website for further info. Questions and discussion for members can be found on the Forum at https://forum.bellahoustonroadrunners.co.uk/t/scio-status-update/893 The change means the club is now a legal entity and we have a modern flexible constitution. It gives us a great opportunity to develop our club – and we will get back to you soon – to ask your views on how we take the club forward. In the meantime – happy reading!
Read all about it: Cat Mac’s cross country result, the best ever for a Bella? Who can’t stomach Kevin? Who is in crunch talks with Leanne? Who’s the Boss? Buggy Battle Banter, David De Hair, Bwana Bella Our Man in Iten? Eat Run Mac? Are we the biggest running club in Scotland… Do we care? This and much much more in The Bletha issue three. Read Bletha-3 online or get to club and get your own printed copy
We’re really excited to bring details of the new Bellahouston Mob match – a fun and friendly inter-club challenge on March 4th 2017 between ourselves and the Harriers. We really hope members of both clubs (and their family and friends!) will come along and have fun on the day, then join everybody back at Cartha for some post-run prizes and fun.
The club features in today’s Evening Times, after we reached out to local councillors to address lighting and path conditions around Bellahouston park during dark winter months, particularly along Mosspark Boulevard. Photograph by Colin Mearns
The annual Bella Curry Night will be held on Saturday 25th February. It’s the night of the National XC. If you rice to the challenge and race in potentially balti conditions you could end up a bhit chilli or jalfreezing. So instead of going home to a soft pilau, why don’t you cumin to the India Quay at 8pm, situated raita across from the Squinty Bridge for some great chaat and a few drinks? This event is open to everyone, including those members not tikka-ing the opportunity to run. Partners welcome too. The meal is a three course buffet for only £15 – what a great dhal! If you have any energy left (I’ll have naan) then we can curry on afterwards to a nightclub where we’ll no doubt be dancing to classic songs korma chameleon, poppadom preach and fight for your right chapati…. Sign up here www.entrycentral.com/bellacurrynight2017 featured pic cc0 via pixabay
bellablethafinal2 – Click here! How did Ann win Jimmy? Do you love the Bellalove? Where do you get a discount for 100 squats? Whose the pride of Scotland? What’s a PBPB? Why is Rose going donuts? Who drinks red wine in long socks? When did bellas sup southside soup? Read all about it and more in the Bletha – your News sheet for Bella Roadrunners. Hard copies continue to be available at club. Hope you enjoy reading it. If you have any stories for future issues please speak to Danny who is already panicking about the February issue.
A fabulous morning at Pollok parkrun for the club’s festive fun run, raising a total of £420 for local charities. Taking place at the parkrun for the first time, club members turned up in fancy dress, tinsel, santa hats and outfits, posed for a few pics, ran the 5k, then back to our base at Glasgow club Nethercraigs for the draw (and some festive refreshments!). £210 was contributed by members for a charity draw, and their names drawn out of a hat. Sarah-Jane Kissock was the name out of the hat, and her choice of charity is the Glasgow City Mission. The club will match that amount and donate it to our charity of the year which is the Glasgow Humane Society. Congratulations too to Norman Boyle and Roz Wilson who won the best fancy dress competitions. Thanks to everybody who helped organise the event, turned up on the day, cheered and supported, or contributed to a fantastic day. Thanks too to Gordon Goldie and Kevin Queenan for the pics. Lots more on our Facebook page and groups.
Well done to everybody who completed the Jimmy Irvine Bella 10k today. Final results are available from Runbritain Rankings and a list of prize winners is shown in the table below. Thanks to everybody who helped or volunteered at today’s event, from registration, to catering, to marshals, to PA, to course setup/dismantling, and much more besides. Huge thanks to everybody, but special thank you to race director Henry for the huge effort he put in. Look forward to hearing about the PB’s, and seeing you along at training soon, or if you’re interested in joining us, find out more on our ‘Join us‘ page. Thanks to Chris Kay Photo for the start line picture. Some more pics from today available on flickr.
Big congratulations to Graeme Paterson, Andy Campbell, Greig Glendinning and Russell Whittington on their Mens Masters Bronze medals at the National XC relays in Cumbernauld on Saturday 22nd October 2016. Graeme ran a storming 1st leg in 13:21 to put the team in 2nd behind Corstorphine at the first changeover. Despite running 13:58, Andy lost a place to Cambuslang as Robert Gilroy ran the fastest M40 lap of the day (12:36) and overhauled Corstorphine too. A solid 3rd leg from Greig (14:18) maintained the gap to Corstorphine while extending the lead to 4th place Greenock Glenpark. Russell brought it home in 14:02, 9 seconds ahead of Greenock who’d left themselves too much to do on the last leg. Well done!
Peter posted this report after the Amsterdam marathon on Oct 16th 2016: It’s never ideal heading to a race feeling totally under prepared, especially when it is a marathon but that is exactly where I was when heading out to run the Amsterdam marathon on Sunday. Training had not gone so well with breathing issues, injury and several chest infections together with an inability to train with the club (due to work and family commitments) all playing their part in this scenario. This was quite easily the least prepared I have been for any marathon and my PW of 2:58 was in serious jeopardy! Luckily I have some really loyal and caring friends at the club including Moriarty, Weatherhead, Paterson and Glendinning who gave me their individual words of wisdom. ” Man the F*$@! up!”, “Grow a pair!” and “Stop Whinging” were just a few of the very technical coaching techniques they adopted to encourage me. The Sunday morning in Amsterdam was glorious with the sun splitting the sky and temperatures around 9 degrees. Perfect running conditions. The race set off from the Olympic Stadium at 9:30am. There was significant congestion as we headed out of the stadium and into the tight streets but I decided to settle in. The first 10k were pretty uneventful as we were taken firstly towards the city centre and then back out again through a park. All was fine as I reached 10k in 41:11. I knew this was faster than I had hoped for but was glad to have built up something to fall back on later in the race. I expected to pay for pace! The next 15kms of the race route were horrible as it ran along one side of a canal crossed a bridge and then back again. As we headed out towards half way I felt very tired and knew the faster than planned pace was starting to get to me. Luckily I saw a Portobello running vest in front of me so I ran up to it and started a conversation to try and take my mind off the tiredness. We ran together for a couple of miles chatting but he also felt poor and dropped back. Fortunately I felt better again and was able to push on. I managed to hit halfway at 1:27:17 and was delighted. I was still worried that I was feeling too tired for such an early point in the marathon and knew it was going to be tough but continued to push myself along. At mile 14 however I suddenly felt my breathing go. This is something I have been experiencing over the past months which manifests itself in short shallow breathes which I find difficult to change. This then results in a real weakness in the arms and the legs as I cannot get enough oxygen to my body. Cue the Wise Men’s comments and MTFU and Grow a pair rang around my head. I just focussed on a vest in […]
The Bletha Issue 1 The new look The Bletha – Bellahouston Road Runners News Sheet – is hot off the photocopier. Please click on link to read full 2 pages. Read all about: Marathon Beers, Running the World, Terry the Juice, Bellas Beastie Boys, Chief Coach Gerry’s Posh Bar Press Ups, BRR Scott on BBC Scot, Bella Bling, and a Bletha with Louise. Copies will be available to pick up at club over the next few club nights. Copies were available at Bella Road Runners 2016 Awards night. Unfortunately Bletha was made to promised that – awards aside – the entire night was ‘off the record’ 😉 Anyone who would like to help produce the next one – all comments, ideas for improvement, stories, practical support and salacious gossip – gratefully received 🙂 Speak to editor Danny Phillips. Hope you enjoy it.
We’re delighted to launch our new club member forum this week. Current club members will have received an invite via email on Monday evening with their signup details. If you’d prefer to sign up directly, visit https://forum.bellahoustonroadrunners.co.uk to register or sign in. You can use your favourite social media platform to login now, and the new forum works really well with mobile devices, and will make signing up to races really very easy. Lots more detail on our club forum overview page. The forum is available to current club members only, so please ensure you’ve paid up or renewed on paysubs. More details on our joining page. The old forum remains accessible, but will be switched to a different address, and be made read-only soon.
Last Sunday saw a sea of purple descend on Glasgow with over 80 Bella’s in the Great Scottish Run. The Half Marathon was the Scottish Athletics Half Marathon Championships and we’re delighted for the following national medal winners: Debs Gray took Women’s Masters Bronze and Debs was joined by Louise Ross and Mhairi Hill to win Bronze Team medals. Very Well done! Many thanks to the 20 volunteers marshalling the start waves for the 10k and Half Marathon. And well done to everyone taking part including the 5 Bellas in the 10k and 57 in the HM. There were so many great personal performances as you can see from all the PB trophies in the results table below. NB if you’re missing a PB trophy do get in touch and we’ll get that added After all the activity, a number of runners and volunteers retired to West Brewery on Glasgow Green to recover.
