Beith New Year Road Races

Date: 06/05/2013
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On January 2nd, a decent turnout of Kilmarnock athletes took the traditional trip to the Beith Road Races. With various distances per age groups, the Seniors take on 4 Laps of the anti clockwise course, a total of 4.8 miles. Mentions go to Keith Haining (1st V45) Lindsay McMahon (1st…

Successful debut in pole vault competition at Grangemouth Stadium

Date: 02/05/2013
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Kilmarnock Harriers pole vault group travelled to Grangemouth stadium on Wednesday 1st May to compete for the first time in this event. The group consisting of Evie Bartl, Cara Baillie (both U15) and coach Harald felt fairly confident after the last training sessions, where all athletes registered good clearances over…

Test

Date: 30/04/2013
Author: Eddie Tonner
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This is a test posting, please ignore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoonS19mtb4

Troon 10k – 8th May

Date: 28/04/2013
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Entry for Troon 10k on 8th May is by pre entry only and is open at http://www.entrycentral.com/index.php?raceID=100501 With an entry limit of 950, almost 700 places are taken, with 16 of these being Kilmarnock Harriers. This is generally the big opening 10k road race of the summer so lets boost the…

Highland Fling Relay 2013

Date: 28/04/2013
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Two years after running the Highland Fling as solo runners John Cairns, Al Murray and Mike Corson were joined by Stephen Gilmour to take the easier option and enter a relay team for the event, a 53 mile run on the southern half of the West Highland Way from…

First Ayrshire Harriers Meeting on Sunday 14th April 2013 News Report covering U17 to seniors courtesy of Reed Wyper

Date: 26/04/2013
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In the 3000m for seniors, Iain Connell ran a strong of 9:32.4 placing first with Murray McDonald in 2nd clocking a time of 11:22.4 and also Kenny Wales in 3rd finishing with 12:32.6. For the senior women, Kara Tait ran well with her time of 10:35.5 with Lindsay McMahon shortly…

News report about Linwood Meeting 24th April 2013 courtesy of Reed Wyper

Date: 26/04/2013
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On a cold, blustery night, many Kilmarnock Harrier athletes travelled up to Linwood, Glasgow to compete at the Dunren Open Graded meeting. Events ranged from 100m through to javelin. In the 100m, 15 athletes competed all over 8 heats: In the first heat, Roy Shankland (U20), Scott Young(U20) and Kuda…

Steve Cram visit – Thursday 7th March

Date: 25/04/2013
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On Thursday 7th March, former World Champion athlete, and current BBC athletics commentator, Steve Cram will be coming to Kilmarnock Harriers. This is a great opportunity to meet a British sporting legend as well as showcase and promote the club. Steve will be at the club from around 6.30 –…

Beinn Dubh Hill Race

Date: 25/04/2013
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Another week, another hill race….this time Beinn Dubh, just outside Luss and the 2nd race in the Bog & Burn Scottish hill race series. Once again Roddy and I made the journey on a beautiful sunny evening (very different from last weeks windswept Kaim Hill), with views of Loch Lomond,…

7 juniors in action at national Cross Country event in Falkirk

Date: 24/04/2013
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7 members of the junior section, U15/U17 age groups, competed at the National Cross Country at Falkirk’s Callander Park and gained valuable experience at this national event, as for a few this was the first time they competed at this high level. Among the female Harriers it was Claire Orr, who was first…