Three Lothian runners competed in Sundays inaugural half marathon in Braemar. Wet, windy and hilly but a beautiful out and back course along the Linn of Dee. David Bathgate, (11th), Paul, (14th) and Shona Young (18th).
11th David Bathgate [1h 27m 40s].
14th Paul Young [1:39.08].
18th & 5thF Shona Young [1:47.23].
Despite having to contend with quagmire conditions Lothian Running Club members had a good day at Saturday’s Pitlochry Highland Games. After finishing in 5th place in the final of the Youth’s 90 metres Handicap Nicola Kellock went on to win both the Youth’s Long Jump and Youth’s 400 metres Handicap, club...
Lothian Running Club fielded two teams among the 32 who contested Sunday’s Comrie Hills Relay in Perthshire, the ‘Y’ team finished 16th overall and 2nd mixed team with the ‘X’ team 19th and 3rd mixed team. The Simon Wake Comrie Hills Relay is a 42k relay race with 2,110m of...
Colin Partridge was the only Lothian RunningClub member to take part in Saturday’s [10th Sept] Edinburgh Parkrun. Following on from his good run in the previous weeks Glasgow Half Marathon Colin turned in another fine performance in finishing in second place, and in doing so recording a new PB for...
Five of the clubs junior members were selected to compete at Saturday’s JSB Forth Valley League Presidents Select meeting at Grangemouth. All acquitted themselves well and did the club proud returning home with a total of seven medals. A number of PB’s were also recorded. There were golds for both Grant...
Thousands of runners were out on the streets of a sunny Glasgow on Sunday for the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run Half Marathon. Among them were a handful of Lothian Running Club members, and one of them Colin Partridge produced an excellent PB of 78 minutes 38 seconds which placed...
BEN NEVIS RACE David Bell was Lothian Running Club’s only representative in Saturday’s gruelling Ben Nevis Race. On a damp and murky day on the Ben, David finished 374th of the 480 finishers in a time of 2 hours 47 minutes 04 seconds. FULL RESULTS…...
Jill , Alice and Iain Horsburgh were the clubs representatives at Sunday’s Blairgowrie Highland Games, and all three returned home with a prize. Jill finished 4th in the Women’s Hill Race 3miles/300yards and later in the afternoon placed 6th in the 3200 metres Handicap. Iain came home in 4th spot...
EDINBURGH PARKRUN [3rd Sept] Lothian Running Club’s Chloe Cox produced a fine run to smash her Edinburgh Parkrun PB at the weekend. Her time of 18 minutes 14 seconds for the 5k course was 13 seconds quicker than her previous best. This placed Chloe an excellent 5th overall and winner...