The club had a fantastic turnout at this year’s Great Scottish Run Half Marathon. A total of 51 runners raced the event, as well as providing a set of marshals to help with start line duties (before helping cheer runners along the way), and a number of pacers helping a great many runners achieve Personal Bests and race targets. So a big ‘well done!’ to everybody who took part in some way on the day, and many thanks to the many Bellas out on the course giving a cheer to everybody too! A particular congratulations for three of our Ladies – Catriona McDonald, Romy Beard and Katie Mathieson – who took home a fantastic Gold in the Scottish Half Marathon Championships. Brilliant achievement, and culmination of a lot of hard work. Well done!
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Calderglen Country Park in East Kilbride on Friday saw 14 Bellas brave the midges to tackle the 10k trail race. Congratulations to Elaine Somerville was first Bella home and first FV40, Stevie Bell first MV65 and the 2nd place ladies team prize was won by Elaine Somerville, Pauline Bradley and Maree Shepard. Despite the undulating, uneven nature of the course with barely any tarmac in sight, the race has proved popular with Road Runners over the years and well worth putting in the diary for next year if you’ve still not given it a try. Well done to everyone who took part and thanks to Calderglen Harriers for hosting a great event. Full results here: Click to access 10kResults2017.pdf photo credit: Colin Hughes
Well done to Bruce Carmichael on winning the Isle of Arran Half Marathon yesterday. Also congratulations to Bruce Carse on winning a silver medal in the 1500m at the scottishathletics National Masters Championships in Grangemouth on Saturday. Great work guys.
Hot off the press: Bletha is now online, and hard copies are available at club. Stories include: Good Win for Bellas! PB Geeks, Beer and chocolate, Yogis, Bellasupport; M10K4, Wilds in the Fintry, Flash, Golden Vets, and Who would rather be sailing? And much much more… Read it here!
It’s now a shield, there’s two of them, and we don’t have a President any more, so “President’s Cup” is perhaps a little inaccurate, but if I’d said “Chairman of the Board of Trustees Shield” race you’d have no idea what I was talking about. The annual 5k handicap race in Bellahouston park takes place on This Wednesday, 21st June. Please wear your vest and we’ll try and get a Club photo if the weather’s half decent. If you don’t wish to run but can make the date, please let us know on the forum, as we always need marshals/timers/finish funnel/registration/camera help. It’s also fun/terrifying (depends on your disposition) to watch a whole heap of runners finish very close together. Numbers can be collected from 6:15pm at Nethercraigs (or in exceptional circumstances from the start at the cycle track in Bella park). If you’ve signed up to Runbritainrankings.com/powerof10.info with Bella as your club and raced a 10k this year we’ll have a time for you. Likewise if you’ve run one of the Club Championship parkruns or 10ks I’ll have a time for you. If you want to make sure then you can add a recent 5k/10k time on the forum. Image designed by Freepik, and font from fontmeme
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.
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!