Articles by smartin

Sunday 17th March 2013 – A number of people are intending running this race, and some may be looking at ways of getting through to the Race. A wee idea of mine was to organise a bus, however we likely won’t have the numbers to fill it. It does appear…

NATIONALS CLOSE CROSS COUNTRY SEASON. On Saturday 23rd Feb, Falkirk’s Callander Park once again was the venue for the highlight of the Country’s Cross Country season as the National Championships took place. The venue now seems set in stone, and no wonder. The route combines Grass, trails, woodland, hills and…

Last weekend, the first major Cross Country event in the athletics calendar took place at Hollyrood Park in the Nation’s Capital at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country Races. Preceeding the televised runs were Inter District Races and Kilmarnock Harriers had a few athletes who gained selection for the West District…

Masters Cross Country Champs On Saturday afternoon (2nd Feb), a couple of Kilmarnock Harrier athletes took the long trip to Forres in the Highlands to compete in the Scottish Masters Cross Country Championship. The race was over 8 Kilometres, or in old figures 5 miles of tough competition. A tough…

MASTER ATHLETES TURN OUT IN FORCE. A massively impressive turnout of 18 Kilmarnock Harriers joined a number of the Country’s finest athletes aged 35 and over for the popular and annual Scottish Veteran Harriers Road Relays on Sunday 27th January. Held as ever at Strathclyde Country Park, each runner completed…