Over the Christmas and New Year period Craigholme is closed. We have therefore arranged for the club to be able to use the facilities at Glasgow Club Nethercraigs on the following evenings. Monday 21 December Wednesday 23 December Monday 4 January Unfortunately Nethercraigs is also closed between Christmas and New Year but the training schedule will have an alternative meeting area for Mon 28 Dec and Wed 30 Dec. At Nethercraigs, there is a car park, toilets, changing, showers and lockers (£1 returnable). When you enter the centre the meeting area for our use is behind the reception area on the right. For storage of bags etc please make use of the lockers. There will be NO CHARGE for training for the duration of Craigholme’s closure. The address: Glasgow Club Nethercraigs 355 Corkerhill Rd Glasgow G52 1TQ
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Results from today’s Scottish Athletics West District XC can be found on the Scottish Athletics website here: West District XC 2015 results
A wet and windy Glasgow University Hares and Hounds 5 mile race took place on Saturday, with 16 Bellas running as part of the Club’s Winter Championships. The race was one by Deeside’s Robbie Simpson in 24:34 with Garscube’s Lesley Chisholm first lady home in 29:09. Provisional results are available here A video of the event by Gordan Curran is available here:
Course maps and competitor information for the Scottish Athletics West District Cross Country Championships on Sunday 6th December 2015 in Bellahouston park can be found by clicking the button below and are also on the Scottish Athletics website.
Well done to everyone who completed the Jimmy Irvine Bella 10k yesterday in dreadful weather conditions. Particular congratulations to our winners: Congratulations to the 2015 prize winners: 1ST MALE Neil RENAULT – Edinburgh Athletic Club 00:31:32 2ND MALE Robert GILROY – Ronhill Cambuslang Harriers 0:32:12 3RD MALE Paul KERR – Edinburgh University Triathlon Club 00:32:36 1ST FEMALE Shona MCINTOSH – Hunters Bog Trotters 00:36:20 2ND FEMALE Megan DAVIDSON – Falkirk Victoria Harriers 00:37:03 3RD FEMALE Donna McHUGH 00:39:34 MV40 Chris WALSH – Bellahouston Harriers 00:34:55 MV50 Wattie MACKAY – Strathearn Harriers 00:36:03 MV60 David KINGHORN – Jog Scotland 00:43:35 FV35 Karen KENNEDY – Carnegie Harriers 0:40:23 FV45 Susie HUBBARD – Ayr Seathforth AAX 00:42:17 FV55 Lorna COYLE – Greenock Glenpark Harriers 00:47:47 MALE TEAM: Bellahouston Harriers :Colin THOMAS, Jack HEATHWOOD and Darren MCQUADE FEMALE TEAM Bellahouston Road Runners : Debs GRAY, Louise ROSS, Ann ROBIN Provisional results are available here: Jimmy Irvine results
Bella Results from the Jimmy Irvine Bella 10k on 8th November 2015 are shown below. Full results available here
Congratulations to Debs Gray, Louise Ross and Claire Wharton on their Women’s Team Bronze Medal winning performance in the Scottish National Half Marathon Championships on Sunday at the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow. Debs ran a seasons best 87:11, while Louise’s 89:59 equalled her half marathon PB set at last years GSR. Claire ran within 11s of her PB set way back in 2004 to finish in 91:33. Well done – great to see all that hard work in training paying off. Scottish Athletics article with Results
There was a fabulous turnout of 79 Bellas at the Great Scottish Run events today. 49 took part in the Half Marathon, 10 were in action in the 10k and a further 20 volunteered to marshal the start. Conditions were ideal for running and there were a number of big PB’s. The Half marks the last race in the Club championship for this year. Well done to everyone who took part and a big thank you for all the support.
We had ideal running conditions for today’s hill race on Ben Venue. Well done to everyone who took part and a big thank you to all the helpers. Full results can be found here.
Last Sunday saw Bellas competing in Marathons at Loch Ness and in Berlin. First Bella over the line at Loch Ness was Russell Whittington who said he was “Well chuffed” to win the Scottish Vet 40 Marathon Championship, finishing in 2:44:39. There were some big PBs and some extremely determined running from the other Bellas, so well done to you all and thanks to all those supporting. Results below: Meanwhile, in Berlin, Bruce Carmichael and James Montgomery were running with Bruce finishing in a very impressive 2:35:10 and James in 3:05:41.
There was “Sunshine on LeithMusselburgh” last Sunday for the second ever Scottish Half Marathon, and the penultimate race in the Club Championship. Nine Bellas took part and earned themselves possibly the biggest race medal ever created. After spending some time scouring the provisional results, the times are shown below. Well done to everyone who took part. Do let us know if we’ve missed anyone or you need a PB trophy added. Full results will appear on http://www.runbritainrankings.com after a week or so. Photo from Maddie
Well done to all the Bellas who took part in the Kilmacolm Running Festival on Sunday. In the Half Marathon, a race in the CLub Championship, Alex was 1st Senior Female and Carla was 2nd Senior female. In the 10k Debs was 2nd female vet and 2nd female overall. Let us know if you’re missing a PB trophy icon. Note that as this race did not have a UKA licence or TRA permit, the results will not appear on Powerof10 or RunBritainRankings Full results available to download from here: Inverclyde Leisure – Kilmacolm Running Festival 2015
Sunday 13th September 2015 must be one of the busiest days of the year for athletics, with a cornucopia of races organised. The Round Cumbrae 10 mile race, a new 7 mile trail race in Helensburgh and the opportunity to run with Mo Farah (and a few others) in the Great North Run were all on offer today. Even the Bellahouston Road Runners Club Championship schedule had a choice of the Kilmacolm Half marathon or the Stirling 10k to choose from. Weather forecasts earlier in the week had us expecting hail and wintery showers this morning, but with barely a cloud in the sky, and the sun shining it felt more like July than September. 15 Bellas were running in Stirling and there were a number of big PBs. Well done everyone and thanks to those who came to support. Full results here: Sportssystems – Stirling 10k 2015 Photos: Helen Craig and Garry Porch
This was the first distance race that I ran and what prompted me to join Bella last year. The event consists of a Marathon or Half Marathon for runners in the morning with a cycle Marathon and Half Marathon in the afternoon. The organisation is excellent and the circuitous route around the River Tay is pretty spectacular. We (my wife Angela and myself) travelled up on the Friday evening and registered at the Moness Resort where there was a pasta spread laid-on for participants. With child-care sorted and a wee cottage hired for the weekend my biggest challenge that evening was trying to ignore the wine in the fridge particularly with the sun making a rare appearance! Having missed 6-7 weeks of training over the summer due to my dodgy calf I decided to wait for a post-run tipple. The Marathon kicked off at 09:30hrs from the village of Weem just over the Tay from Aberfeldy and is a two-lap course. The HM mustered about 09:45hrs at the showfield camping / car parking area (both free) just over the Tay Bridge (aka Wade’s Bridge). From there its a 500m walk to the start line led by two pipers. The start itself is at the Aileen Chraggan Hotel just shy of Weem. The weather was good, a nice bright morning and about 12c, although there was a fairly stiff breeze blowing down from Glen Lyon. The gun started us 300 HM runners off at 10:00hrs and its a fairly steady 4 miles past Weem, Camserny and Dull to the iron bridge over the River Lyon. We were into the breeze at that stretch however it was fairly kind. From there its a left turn over the bridge and on the road to Kenmore. This is roughly a 2.5 mile undulating stretch with a water stop/toilet and past some pasture where the horses were clearly having a laugh at the two-legged humans trying to run! Entering the village of Kenmore is quite a site with Loch Tay straight ahead and a cross over the Taymouth Bridge. Its probably designed to take your mind off the impending climb through the grounds of Taymouth Castle and Golf Course. Thats where the only real hill springs up, just after the castle but thankfully through the woods which provided some shelter from the head-wind that had blown-up by that stage. Its a fairly long winding climb, probably similar to the hill in the Alloa Half. Having survived, I was glad to see a water station at the exit of the castle grounds and having briefly stopped to hydrate (I’ve lerned that I cant run and drink at the same time having nearly drowned last year) I started the gradual stage on the A827 back to Aberfeldy only to feel a large stone lodged in the sole of my left trainer. Having just stopped for a drink I didnt want to spoil my momentum again so like an audition for Riverdance, I tried to ‘remotely’ dislodge the […]