MORGAN AND KARA REPRESENT KILLIE AT BIG TELEVISED CROSS COUNTRY EVENT On Saturday, the Great Edinburgh Cross Country event took place in the shadow of Arthurs Seat, and despite the late withdrawal of multiple World and Olympic Champion Mo Farah there were the usual high standard of top International athlete…
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Just a reminder that the new Club Standards Scheme for 2014 finishes on December 31st and will start from scratch again on New Years Day. Details are on the Homepage of the website as to how you achieve these awards, and with age and sex graded Bronze, Silver, Gold and…
2014 TURKEY TROT SEES SOME GREAT PERFORMANCES As is the norm on Boxing Day, a large number of Kilmarnock Harriers journeyed across the County to Ayr, to take part in 2014’s traditional Turkey Trot Road Races. Both 5k and 10k races are on offer on the day, and with the organisers taking…
Super fast times were promised and this was the main reason that Connell Drummond, former Harrier Scott Russell, Stephen Allan of Kirkintilloch Olympians, and myself made the decision to take the trip to Yorkshire to try out the Age UK Leeds Abbey Dash 10K. Personally speaking it was a judgement…
KILMARNOCK HOSTS OPEN CROSS COUNTRY RACES Sunday afternoon saw the town hold their annual Cross Country events and this year a brand new course awaited the large number of athletes who lined up throughout the various age groups. In the ladies event, Scottish legend Fiona Mathieson had taken the trip…
Harriers win at Ruby’s Race. After a year’s gap, the popular Ruby Young Memorial 5K Race returned to the scene and with the race starting and finishing at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena the host town were well represented. Previously the race was a Ladies only event but latterly Males were…
TONY JOINS “SUB” 3 HOUR CLUB Kilmarnock Harrier athlete Tony Rodden saw months of rapid improvement come to a head on the last Monday in October in Dublin, as his big target came real in the City’s annual Marathon. Tony has smashed his lifetime bests in all distances in 2014…
LARGE TURNOUT AT COUNTY RELAYS On Saturday 18th October Kilmarnock Harrier and AC took their usual large representation of athletes along to Irvine Beach Park for the 2014 staging of the Ayrshire Cross Country Relay Championships. The day started well with an excellent Silver Medal for the Under 11 boys and…
On Sunday October 5th Kilmarnock Harrier duo Scott Lyden and myself lined up along with many other athletes to take part in the 5th staging of the ever popular MBNA Chester Marathon, confirmed by the fact that the race was voted the most popular Marathon in the UK in 2013….
My International Experience Cardiff Having won the 400m at Scottish Schools Championships, I was given the opportunity to compete for the Scottish Schools squad at the SIAB international in Cardiff, an opportunity I couldn’t refuse. On the 19th of July, we left Hutchison’s Academy for Cardiff Metropolitan University, a journey…