Lothian Running Club’s Edel Mooney retained the women’s title at Friday night’s Calderglen 10K Trail Race at East Kilbride. Edel who also finished 20th overall covered the course within Calderglen Country Park in 40 minutes 18 seconds which was 5 seconds quicker than her time of 12 months ago. The...
The club’s Pol McDonald and Ian Hall were among a big field of 79 runners who contested Wednesday[26th June] evenings one mile race at the Meadows in Edinburgh. Pol completed the course in 5 minutes 27seconds for 29th place with Ian in 74th in 6m 34s. Full...
Lothian RC’s only entrant in the Falkland Hill Race on Sunday was Robbie Kennedy. The race which is run as part of the Falkland Festival sees the runners cover a 3.5k course with a climb of 360 metres. Robbie produced a fine performance in finishing in 30th position overall and...
Lothian Running Club’s Mike Lieberman took part in Sunday’s North Downs 30k Trail Race in South-East England. Mike, who reckons he is the only Lothian member to have run this race described the multi terrain course as being” hilly but very scenic but an extremely enjoyable race.” The race which is...
Lothian Running Club veteran Alan Robertson spent an exhausting weekend taking part in the gruelling West Highland Way Race. Essentially the object of the West Highland Way Race is simple. You start at Milngavie Railway Station (7 miles north of Glasgow) at 1am on Saturday & run/jog/walk to Fort William Leisure Centre...
PORTOBELLO 4 MILE BEACH RACE. The rain held off for the inaugural Porty Beach Race and despite a fresh wind and vicious barnacles, some good times were clocked on a testing course of over 4 miles. Stephen Malcom was LRC’s only entrant in the race which started and finished...
Running in a high quality 5000 metres race at the BMC Miler Meet at Scotstoun Stadium on Friday evening, Lothian Running Club’s Max McNeil just missed out on a PB for the distance. His time of 15 minutes 36.93 seconds in finishing in 10th place was only 4 seconds outside his...
AGR BLACK ROCK ’5′ Lothian Running Club had an excellent turn out of 10 members in a huge starting line up of over 750 runners for Friday nights Black Rock ’5′ race in Kinghorn in Fife. The race starts at the bottom of Harbour Road under the railway viaduct and climbs uphill, turning...
Once again Ian Hall was the Lothian Club’s only runner in the weekly Self Transcendence race at the Meadows in Edinburgh. On this occasion it was a two mile race with Ian finishing 39th of the 48 finishers in 14 minutes 11 seconds which also placed him 7th MV50. Fuyll...
What is the Seven Hills of Edinburgh ? Every year since 1980, on the 3rd Sunday in June, a few hundred hardy individuals take part in one of the most unusual running events in the country, The Seven Hills of Edinburgh — a combination of road-running, cross-country, hill-running, and urban...