On 17th May 2014, Dave Berrill and I made the round trip to Arran to compete in the Goatfell hill race. The race starts in Brodick, has a 2 mile tarmac section and then climbs 800m+ in 3 miles, to the summit of Goatfell, before returning to the start. It’s...
Shortened version of this weeks report on WLC website, due to the change in set up of their digital cover, only selected reports from all sports are covered meaning the athletics report won’t be guaranteed to be on every week as in the past. Full reports however will continue in...
122 runners took part in the 2014 race up the most Southerly Munro. Hector Haines of HBT was well ahead of the rest of the field, winning in 1h08m32s, with Amanda Blackhall of Lochaber AC winning the ladies race in 1h34m09s. Lothian were reasonably well represented with Christine MacVarish, Paul...
Lothian Running Club’s Malcolm Lang had an excellent 5th place finish in Saturday’s Loch Leven Half Marathon. His time of 1 hour 19 minuts 45 seconds was also a PB for the distance. Donald Shaw agonisingly missed out out on a PB by a mere 2 seconds with his time...
Well done to everyone that turned up for our 60th Anniversary of the sub 4 minute mile – night of timed mile races. We had a descent mix of seniors and juniors who competed in timed miles, then took part in further mile reps and relays over the distance. Thank you to...
On 6th May 1954 Roger Bannister was the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. To mark the 60th Anniversary of that feat, Friday’s training session at the Craigswood track on 9th May will be a night of timed mile races. Whether you want to test...
A series of technical coaching sessions will be taking place at Craigswood on Tuesday nights during the summer. The first of these is being held tomorrow night. The sessions have been organised by the West Lothian Athletics Partnership (Livingston & District AAC, Lothian Running Club, Linlithgow AC, West Lothian Council,...
We had four club athletes in action this Saturday at the Forth Valley League event in Grangemouth – Hannah Steel, Natalie Miller, Robyn MacDonald, and Louis MacDonald. It was my first time to one of these event, and I had a great afternoon watching some excellent performances from all of...
The Forth Valley League is an inter club athletics league for Junior Club members. There are three matches and the events vary from match to match. The dates are: 19th April afternoon, 17th May, 28th June Classes Boys and Girls UNDER 11 Date of birth between 01/09/2003 and 31/08/2005 UNDER...
Club championship update at the link below following Alloa Half Marathon and National Road Relays. Latest Results Big well done to our current leaders: Suzie Hannah, Christine MacVarish, Saran Jones, Malcolm Lang, Kenny Mearns, Ted Finch, Euan McInnes. Next Race: Hunter’s Bog Trot on 19th April 2014 Let me know...