Great club day out at the Scottish National Cross Country Championships in Callendar Park Falkirk, well done to everyone who took part and a big thanks to the marshals and organisers. Full results here: Scottish National XC Championships 2016 – Full results
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A reminder that Club training is at Nethercraigs this week, 29th Feb and 2nd March. Glasgow Club – Nethercraigs
The Renfrewshire AAA 5 mile road race took place at Battery park in Greenock on 7 Feb 2016. The wind is always a challenge for this Club Championship race, but this year high winds and heavy rain had caused the approach road to Greenock to be blocked causing long travel delays. Just getting to the start line was therefore a major achievement and unfortunately not everyone made it, with several turning back or arriving after the race had started. Battery Park had its own flooding problems with 30m long puddles, knee deep in places, a major obstacle for runners not expecting “cross country on the roads” as one competitor put it. In the latter stages of the race, submerged kerbs in these water features were tripped over causing a number of runners to fall and one competitor even broke his ankle. Although the rain held off for the race, the wind was particularly brutal this year. On re-entering the park after the out-and-back along the esplanade the gale force wind was like a solid wall slowing everyone’s progress. Well done to everyone who took part but particularly well done to Ann, Claire and Katie who took Bronze medals in the ladies competition, with Claire coming 2nd V40. The men’s team were 4th for the second year running. Full results Runbritain Rankings Photo by Gordon Goldie
A record number of Bellas turned out for the first marathon pace training session of 2016 in Glasgow Green on Wednesday 13th January. Cold but dry – well done everyone!
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
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.