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Forth Valley League

The club junior members were in action in the first match of the 2016 Forth Valley League at Meadowbank Stadium. Results: Boys U-13 200m 2 Ross Gillespie[31.63]. Girls U-13 200m Race[a]1 Robyn McDonald[31.67]PB,Race[b]2 Hannah Steel[31.57]PB. Girls U-15 200m 2 Erin McComisky[30.70]PB. Girls U-13 800m Race[a]2 Hannah Steel[2:46.23],Race[b]3 Shannon Prevost[3:12.56].Girls U-15...

Edel retains title at Balfron

Lothian Running Club’s Edel Mooney retained the Women’s title in the Mulberry Bush Montesseri Balfron 10k race on Sunday. The Irish internationalist also finished in an excellent 14th position overall of the 570 finishers with her time of 37 minutes 38 seconds being 85 seconds quicker than her winning figures...

London Marathon

Half a dozen LRC members were among the masses who took part in Sunday’s London Marathon, Malcolm Lang led the blue vests home with a new PB time of 2:43.46 which was 15 minutes quicker than his previous best set in the Edinburgh Marathon in 2014. The Lothian finishers were,...

Marathon PB’s for Linda & Gerry

BRIGHTON MARATHON
Gerry McCafferty finished in 3 hours 24 minutes 08 seconds for a new PB for the marathon distance, placing 692nd of the 11.133 finishers and 35th of 465 in the M50 category.
MANCHESTER MARATHON
Linda Garratty recorded a new PB of  3 hours 44 minutes 57 seconds placing 2,894th from 9,385 finishers and 446th female.

Livingston Open meeting.

 The Lothian clubs junior athletes have been in action over the last week competing at the Livingston Open meeting at Craigswood Sports Centre and the first of the Forth Valley League meetings at Meadowbank Stadium. Here is the results from the Livingston meeting: Mixed 300m, Race 4, 2 Erin McComisky[49.53],3...

Great Edinburgh 10 mile run

 
Lothian Running Club were well represented in Sunday’s Great Edinburgh 10 mile Run. The race started and finished in Holyrood Park, the LRC placings were:
84 Ryan Ferguson[1:07.06],
235 Mel Zobel[1:11.29],
286 Alan Moffat[1:14.21[],
1164 Jim Alexander[1:22.58],
1350 Mike Murray[1:28.26],
1713 Melanie Kennedy 1:32.32],
1816 Jim Salvage[1:33.54],
2094 Mags Turnbull[1:37.00],
2559 Susan Bruce[1:43.38].
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Norman’s Law Hill Race

Club veteran Kenny Mearns was the sole Lothian club member in the Norman’s Law Hill Race from Luthrie in Fife. Kenny finished 96th of the 132 finishers.
http://www.fifeac.org/events/fife-ac-events/normans-law/975-norman-s-law-2016.html

Parkruns [16th April]

Edinburgh parkrun A total of 416 runners took part. View full results for Edinburgh parkrun event #337   Position   Gender Position   parkrunner   Club   Run Time   1 1 Unknown ATHLETE Unattached 00:16:41 12 1 Lauren Ailish DICKSON Lasswade AC 00:18:04 113 100 Scott BALFOUR Lothian RC 00:23:05 129 111 Mahlen FOX...

Tom Scott Memorial 10 mile road race

The Tom Scott 10 mile race also incorporated the Scottish Championship, the Lothian club had half a dozen members in the line up with four of them recording personal bests. Colin Partridge led the blue vests home in 24th place in 56mins 22 seconds, he was followed home by 29...

‘Round the Houses’ 10k

The road running season is now in full swing, unfortunately at the weekend two long established endurance events took place on the same day. The 54th Tom Scott Memorial 10 mile Road Race took place at Strathclyde Park while the 50th Round the Houses 10k was going on in Grangemouth....

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