Category: Race Reports

Meadows category win for Scott

The club’s over-65 veteran athlete Scott Balfour produced a fine run in Sunday’s Meadow’s Half Marathon in Edinburgh to place an excellent 32nd out of a total of 318 finishers. Scott who completed the course in 89 minutes 54 seconds was also the victor in the M65 category and second veteran...

Smokies 10 miler & Down by the River 10k

Four of the club’s female members made the journey up the East Coast on Sunday to contest the Arbroath Smokies 10 mile Ladies Only Race. There was a big field of over 300 runners and the first LRC runner to cross the finish line was Christine MacVarish in an excellent...

100 Not Out for John at Capital Parkrun

Lothian Running Club members were out in force at Saturday mornings Edinburgh Parkrun to support their club mate John Barclay who was celebrating the ocassion of his 100th Parkrun appearance. All of them having taken place at the Capital event along the waterfront at Cramond. John who now competes in...

Max & Edel top finishers at National XC

Lothian Running Club were well represented in Saturday’s National Cross Country Championships at Callendar Park in Falkirk. No fewer than 1520 athletes completed the course despite muddy conditions and that is more than 120 over the previous record of 1398 set in Perth back in 1995. The club’s top performers...

Devilla Forest 15

Lothian Running Club had half a dozen runners among a total field of just over 500 for Sunday’s Devilla Forest 15 Race on Sunday.        The Devilla Forest 15 is a 15km trail race which takes place every February. It starts and finishes within the grounds of the Scottish Police...

Another good run from Sarah

  In her final race before this weekend’s Canada West Championships, Sarah Inglis[TWU Spartans] turned in another good performance in finishing in second place in the Women’s 3000 metres race at the University of Washington Open meeting at Dempsey Indoor, Seattle.The Lothian RC member clocked a time of 9 minutes...

Club juniors in action this weekend!

A couple of the Lothian club’s junior athletes were in action at the weekend. Nicola Kellock contested the Under-20 Shot Putt at the National Age Group Championships at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow. Nicola picked up a bronze medal with a throw of 8.94m. RESULTS:http://www.thepowerof10.info/resultsfiles/2014/93630_12658_16022014100620_150214agegroupsv2.pdf At Dunbar, Mhairi Eades contested...

CARNETHY 5 HILL RACE

Seven Lothian Running Club members competed in the 44th Carnethy 5 hill race in the Pentand Hills on Saturday. As forecast, the freezing rain stopped just in time -but not the wind – and the sun came out to shine on a great day’s racing. With wet snow, lots of mud and a strong wind,...

Max reaches BUCS final

Running in the British University & College Sports[BUCS] Indoor Athletics Championships at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow Lothian Running Club ‘s Max McNeil finished 7th in the final of the Men’s 1500 metres. He had qualified for the final by finishing in 4th place in his heat in 4 minutes 09.08...

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