BEST IN WEST COME TO KILMARNOCK. Hot on the heels of the news that Team Scotland athletes will be basing themselves in Kilmarnock in advance of next year’s Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, the general feelgood factor amongst the local sporting community continued on Saturday when the hugely prestigious West District…
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FUN IN THE VALLEYS On Saturday 16th November I found myself lined up with some of the best Masters (over 35’s) athletes in the UK as I pulled on a Scottish Vets vest in Cardiff at the 26th staging of the British and Irish Cross Country International. This was the…
LARGE TURNOUT AT THE KILLIE CROSS COUNTRY Despite a very unfortunate clash with the National 4K Cross Country Champs which were being held at Bellahouston Park on the same day, a record number of athletes took the opportunity to head to the Ayrshire Athletics Arena to take part in the…
LAST OF THE RELAYS TAKES PLACE AT THE NATIONALS After the success of last week’s Ayrshire Cross Country Relay Championships, and the previous week’s West Districts, a busy spell concluded for Kilmarnock Harriers on Saturday 26th October as Captains Kara and James were able to field a number of athletes…
MASSIVE TURNOUT, AND FANTASTIC RESULTS AT THE AYRSHIRES On Saturday 17th October 2013 at Scott Ellis playing fields, a brand new cross country course awaited hundreds of athletes of all abilities from around the county for the Ayrshire Cross Country Relays. Many weeks of preparation by route master Ian Gebbie…
CROSS COUNTRY SEASON KICKS OFF IN HAMILTON The second weekend in October saw a fairly large amount of Senior Kilmarnock Harriers head the short trip to Hamilton where the West District Cross Country Relays took place – traditionally the first annual gathering of the season for a number of athletes. Held…
(Below report by Scott Martin) On Sunday September 29th 2013, Connell Drummond and myself found ourselves in Eastern Europe where we took part in Poland’s 35th staging of the Warsaw Marathon. Arriving on the Thursday prior to the race we had ample time to find our bearings, get our race…
BELOW REPORT COURTESY OF HARRIER JOHN PARKER. Bella 5K 1st Sept 2 Harriers took the short journey up the M77 to compete in the “Bella” 5K. Uncle and nephew ( John Parker and Graeme Cameron) were both looking to keep up their recent good form. Graeme was looking for that elusive…
REPORT COURTESY OF KEITH HAINING Round Cumbrae 10mile road race A number of athletes showed great form at the race today running personal best times for the race around the island. Top performance of the day goes to Jacqueline Neil who showed her hard work on the track doing coach…
On Sunday August 25th I took a jaunt down to Lancashire to join over 500 other competitors who were taking part in the Fleetwood Half Marathon. Part, but not all of my strategy this year has been to enter a few races I hadn’t previously done to keep the motivation up….
