Muir takes Scottish title

GAA MILER MEET: Milnathort athlete preparing for World Indoors in March

European champion Laura Muir won the Scottish 3,000m women’s indoor title at the GAA Miler Meet in Glasgow.

Muir, who won double gold at the European Indoors in Belgrade 10 months ago, was beginning her preparations for the World Indoors in Birmingham in March.

Running in the mixed A 3,000m race, the Milnathort athlete clocked 8:37.21 as she finished fifth overall, showing the benefits of a two-week warm weather training camp near Johannesburg before Christmas.

Muir’s training partner, GB crosscountry internationalist Sol Sweeney (Perth Strathtay Harriers/Glasgow Univ), headed the field in 8:19.03, with Dundee Hawkhill’s James Donald snatching third in 8:32.43.

Muir will target World Indoor and European success despite working up to 70 hours a week at an equine hospital in Glasgow for a veterinary degree.

The 24-year-old Dundee Hawkill runner believes she can deliver more success on the track, having missed only one training session this autumn when an emergency case came in one night.

Muir said: “I don’t feel too much pressure for this year as I’m completing my final year of studies and that’s my big target.

“But at the really well.

“So I want to go to the Europeans in Berlin and come home with a medal, and it would be very nice to do the same at the World Indoors in Birmingham,” she added.

Melissa Courtney (Shaftesbury Barnet) won the women-only 3,000m in 8:55.10, 18 seconds clear of Katie Snowden (Herne Hill H).

Courier Country athlete Allen Marr (PH Racing) claimed the over-60 veteran 3,000m gold medal in a personal best 11:07.

Eilidh Doyle made a rare appearance over the indoor 200m as she finished third in a mixed race in 24.35.

It was the Pitreavie athlete’s first appearance in an event in Scotland since the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The Kinross athlete said: “It’s all about preparation for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.”

Michael Dunn (Clydesdale U20) won in 24.04. same time I’m training

Picture: Bobby Gavin. Laura Muir won the Scottish women’s 3,000m indoor gold in a mixed race at the GAA Miler Meet.