One of the Lothian club’s elder statesmen, Ted Finch, was in action in Iceland at the weekend, the over-60 vet ran the Reykjavik Marathon. Ted crossed the finish line in 4 hours 14 minutes 15 seconds which placed him 503rd of the 808 finishers.
John Malcolm represented the club in Sunday’s Ochil’s 2000 Hill Race.
The gruelling event is run over a distance of 18miles with climbs of 5000 feet.
John finished well up in 21st place of the 79 finishers in 3 hours 30 minutes 49 seconds.
There has been a date change for the National Cross Country at Callendar Park, Falkirk. Sunday 22 February is now the day (rather than the Saturday) to be marked on training diaries and calendars for 2015. The East District Cross Country Champs will now be held in Dundee on Saturday...
There were outright wins and category wins for Lothian Running Club members at this weekends Parkruns. At Falkirk, Daniel McLaughlin was the outright winner with Carol Mabon the first FV 60-64 while at Strathclyde Jo Williams was the victor in the women’s category. EDINBURGH 263rd Jonathan Barclay [25.08] Full results;http://www.parkrun.org.uk/edinburgh/results/latestresults/...
There was a good turn out of the club’s junior members amongst a record entry at the recent[20th Aug] Livingston Open Meeting at Craigswood Stadium. A number of those taking part recorded PB’s. MIXED 150 METRES Under-9 4th Sorley McDonald [31.57s] MIXED 200 METRES Race 10: 2nd Andrew Jackson [28.73]PB Race 11: 3rd...
Max McNeil was Lothian Running Club;s sole representative at the Scottish Athletics National Championships at the weekend. Max contested the Mens 5000 metres at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena in Kilmarnock. In less than ideal conditions of a strong wind and rain Max finished in 8th place in the 16 runner...
The Lothian club’s oldest member Ian Leggett contested the Scottish Veteran Harriers Club Glasgow800 10k race at the weekend. At 75 years young Ian who was the second oldest competitor in the race completed the course 58 minutes 24 seconds. Sunday saw the inaugural running of the Sherriffmuir 11 mile...
Runing in a BMC Gold Standard Meeting in Manchester earlier in the week Lothian Running Club’s Max McNeil dipped under 4 minutes for the first time in a 1500 metres race with a new PB of 3m 59.94. In a high quality field and over a distance he rarely contests Max...
EDINBURGH PARKRUN
5th Malcolm Lang [17.41]
89th Mahlen Fox [21.22]
180th Alec Agnew [23.30]
209th Cliff Dicker [23.57]
282nd Jonathan Braclay [25.36]
291st Ted Finch [25.48]
641 Ran
FALKIRK PARKRUN
2nd Donald Shaw [18.36]PB
4th John Malcolm [19.14]
45th & 6thF Lana Turnbull [22.36]
50th Jim Alexander [22.50]
133rd & 27thF Mags Turnbull [27.48]
211 Ran
STRATHCLYDE PARKRUN
133rd Brian Morris [29.33]
175 Ran