Killie Athletes join thousands in London. On Sunday morning (April 21st), 5 Kilmarnock Harriers took to the streets of London as the World famous Virgin London Marathon took place. With all having trained and raced well in the lead up to the race, each had their own goals, ranging from…
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Organiser Scott McKendrick presented a slightly different race route this year which cut out most of the trod up the side of the glen and instead, took us across the burn after about 100m up the glen, through a kissing gate and diagonally across a field towards Kaim hill. A long…
Kilmarnock Harriers are proud to offer a new exciting field event to our young athletes (age group U15 and above): Pole Vault. What initially only began as an experiment will now become a permanent feature in the curriculum among the other field events currently on offer to our young athletes. The…
Ideal conditions at Strathclyde Country Park Although this weekend was fairly quiet regards racing, 2 Harriers were in action at the Tom Scott 10 Mile Road Race which was being held in and around Strathclyde Park on April 7th. The Race which was also the incorporating the Scottish 10 mile…
After several months on the waiting list we recently were given a place in the 4 stage Highland Fling Relay, a 53 mile relay over the southern half of the West Highland Way, starting at Milngavie and ending in Tyndrum. Our team for the race was Alasdair Murray, Mike Corson,…
Seniors take to the National Stage in the Relays. On Easter Sunday, a large number of Kilmarnock Harrier athletes ventured East, to Livingston for the annual National 6/4 Stage Road Relays. So called by virtue of the fact that the Ladies consist of 4 athletes per team, while the Men…
Ravenscraig was the venue for the last meeting of the indoor season, in which 3 Harriers (U15) succesfully competed in: Cameron Wilson, Cara Baillie and Evie Bartl. Cameron Wilson, U15, had an excellent competition achieving PBs in all three events he competed in. Cameron started the competition with a fine…
This weekend saw an exciting coaching workshop take place at the Emirates Indoor Arena, which offered the chance to meet true world class coaches and athletes, like the British sprinter former 60m indoor world champion Dwain Chambers, London gold medalist in the triple jump Christian Taylor and American hurdler Danellie…
Alloa Half produces excellent results. A great benchmark to a number of people’s hard Winter training came to light on Sunday as one of the first main Half Marathon’s of 2013 took place in Alloa, the 31st staging of the towns event. A measure of the popularity of the race…
Three young Harriers competed at the second Open Graded Meeting at Ravenscraig Indoor Arena, Motherwell. 11 year old Robert Brady, U13, started of his evening with a fine 100m race clocking 14.41. Robert also competed in the long jump (2.33m) but was unfortunate with two fouls in the long jump…