Paul and Shona Young had an extremely busy and exhausting weekend, the Lothian Club duo contested the Highland Perthshire Marathon at Aberfeldy on Saturday then headed acrooss the Border to South Shields to take part in the Great North Run on Sunday. In the marathon Paul finshed in 31st place...
Lothian Running Club were well represented at the Murieston 6k Trail Race at the weekend with club members making up almost a third of the total field. Lana Turnbull was the victor in the womens category covering the course in 25m 28s which also placed her 10th overall. Leading male...
Hannah Steel smashed her PB by 14 seconds to finish 2nd in the 800m with a time of 2m 45.95s at the Forth Valley League Select Match at the weekend. The Select match is the final race in the Forth Valley League series, and is by invitation only. This is...
Scott Fraser is another Lothian club member who has been on the sidelines for a lengthy spell through injury. Scott who is also an experienced and successful orienteer showed no ill effects as he came home a clear winner of the East of Scotland 10k Championship at Hawick on Sunday. The...
Lothian Running Club’s Matthew Galloway may well have run himself into the Scotland team for the Junior Home Hill International over the Wicklow Mountains in Glendalough in Ireland later this month. Running in the weekend trials at Aberfoyle, Matthew, who is firstly an orienteer has only recently returned to action...
Running in the Paisley 10k on Sunday Lothian Running Club’s Shona Young recorded a new PB for the distance. Shona’s time of 44 minutes 52 seconds bettered her previous best of 45 minutes 24 seconds which she set in March 2013 in the Jim Dingwall 10k in Grangemouth. The Lothian...
Lothian Running Clubs Max McNeil turned in another PB performance in Ireland on Sunday when representing Scotland in the Airtricity Frank Duffy Memorial 10 mile Race in Dublin. Max who has had an excellent summer season completed the course around Phoenix Park in 52 minutes 22 seconds which placed him...
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 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/...