Articles by smartin

HARRIERS EXCELL IN LYON On Sunday, months of excellent training came to a head for a couple of Kilmarnock Harriers in Lyon, as France’s 3rd largest City staged it’s annual Marathon. Connell Drummond and Stewart McAllister were in action, and with personal bests set over all distances in 2015, the…

GEORGE CUMMINGS ROAD RACE KICKS OFF THE RELAY SEASON. On Saturday afternoon at Houston, Renfrewshire the traditional Kilbarchan AC organised George Cummings Road Relays took place and in a field of hundreds of athletes an impressive turnout of 21 from Kilmarnock Harriers were in action. Each leg is a very…

NATIONAL ROAD RELAYS SIGNAL THE END OF THE WINTER Sunday saw the end of the traditional Winter running season as longstanding venue Livingston once more hosted the 4/6 Stage Scottish National Road Relays. So called as Ladies field 4 athletes per team while the Men field a couple of extra…

PB’S GALORE AT CLYDEBANK On Saturday, a number of Kilmarnock athletes took the relatively short trip to Clydebank for the Clydesdale Harriers organised 5k Road Race. In a course renowned for attracting very quick times by some very fast runners there were pb’s by almost all Harriers in the field…

Gillian leads fantastic performances at Alloa Gillian Johnstone entered the Alloa Half Marathon on Sunday March 15th, and lined up alongside a number of other Kilmarnock Harriers, and this was to be her debut over the 13.1 mile race distance after carefully building the miles up recently. The pre race…

KILLIE ATHLETES TO THE FORE AT VETS ROAD RELAYS On Sunday morning (Jan 25th) , Strathclyde Park hosted the annual Scottish Veteran Harriers Road Relay Championships and, as has been the case in recent years, a number of Ayrshire athletes took part. These included a dozen runners from Kilmarnock Harriers,…