Harriers kick up their heels with great runs
Runners enjoy fabulous month
Cambuslang Harriers enjoyed a terrific September, and the running club are hoping their good form will continue for the rest of the year.
First up was the Scottish Trail Race Championships at the Falkland Estate in Fife, with conditions warm and dry.
The senior/masters male quartet of Ben Hukins, Alasdair Campbell, Robert Gilroy and Kevan Harvey in 4th, 5th,6th and 10th place packed well to claim victory from Inverness Harriers and HBT.
The club maintained its monopoly of the men’s team title having now recorded five consecutive victories since the inception of the race in 2013, and Robert lifting the O40 masters men title was a further boost for the club.
Justin Carter who was next home for the club narrowly missed out on the O40 masters bronze medal.
The senior and masters women competed in the same gruelling 10K race as the men and did the club proud by securing a team bronze behind host club Fife AC and Garscube Harriers.
Kirsty O’Brien, Jennifer Reid, Erica Christie and Lesley McArdle combined well to give the club its first Scottish senior/masters ladies team award in this event.
There was further icing on the cake for Erica, who was the first O60 lady to finish.
The U17 boys and girls added to the club’s overall haul of medals.
Drew Pollock, who has had an excellent track season, won his age group having led the 5K event from the front, and with support from Keir Crawford and Andrew Carey the trio lifted the silver medals.
The female trio of Holly Brock, Kelly McCutcheon and Ruth Kelly went one better to capture the gold medal.
There was further medal success for the U15 boys, who took team silver thanks to Aaron Grew, Michael Black and Zak Povey.
The U13 3K race for boys and girls was not a championship event but was designated as a development trail run.
Fearghus MacGregor in 4th place led home team mates Lewis Roddis and Michael Byrne, while Eva Ritchie in 6th position headed home Millie Nicholl, Eilidh Kennedy, Cara McDowall and Morvern Cameron.
Then came the recent Scottish 10K Road Championship event. The Cambuslang trio of individual silver medallist Grant Sheldon, Stuart Gibson and Kevan Harvey, who set a pb, successfully defended their team title from host club Central AC and Edinburgh AC.
In the last 11 years, the Cambuslang men have won three team gold medals, four silver and three bronze.
Iain Reid also won the M40 gold medal following the golden success of Robert Gilroy in the previous two years and of Kerry-Liam Wilson’s similar achievement in the five years prior to that.
The Harriers had another 13 finishers in the event crossing the line in the order of Colin Reilly in a pb time, Gavin Smith, Alistair Campbell, Stevie Wylie, Ritchie Carr, Stan Mackenzie, John Paul Murphy, David Savage, Michael Black, Brian Hughes, Iain Nicholl, Dan O’Connell and Sandy Eaglesham.
Brian Hughes won the M60 prize in the open race but, unfortunately, there was no championship medal awarded in his age group.
On the same day Moira Stewart clocked an impressive 34.43 for the Prague Grand Prix 10K road event which would have given her a bronze medal in the Scottish Ladies event.
In the accompanying race for young athletes U15 year olds Millie Nicholl and Lewis Roddis performed strongly to finish runners up.