Road Running

With seniors in Alloa it was a trip to  the coast and Gourock Esplanade for a number of our Juniors and the National Junior Road championships. On a calm, dry but pretty cold day we were represented at most age groups with the following performances: u13 Girls (2.5km) – Leonie McCutcheon…

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,…

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…

The club have been allocated 3 places in the 2015 London Marathon. As usual a place is offered to each of the male and female members who have participated in the most events in the Club Road Summer Championships. The other places are made available, by ballot, to any other member of the club. …

On 29th November, Tony Rodden, John Parker and Myself (Connell Drummond) ventured up to Garscube Glasgow for the Glasgow University 5 Mile Road Race. For John and Myself it was our 1st time at this race but Tony had more experience of this undulating race. The race consist of 2…