ATHLETICS
LIVINGSTON ATHLETIC CLUB
Nine club athletes took part in the East District Cross Country League at the weekend with a number of impressive results, which were as follows:
Under- 11 boys: 48th Connor
Greenhorn (8.12).
Under- 13 girls: 2nd Mia Sokoluk (11.17).
Under-15 boys: 9th Logan Beagley (11.35), 18th Elliot Frame (12.16).
Under- 17 women: 1st Isla Calvert (12.15), 49th Zoe Dunn (15.01).
Under- 17 men: 1st Andrew McGill (20.49)
Senior women: 12th Katie Craig (24.55). Senior men: 197th Cameron Tweedie (40.51).
PARKRUN
Lothian Running Club claimed a male and female double at the Livingston parkrun on Saturday morning, and claimed five of the top eight overall places.
Euan McInnes took top spot in a time of 18.25, while Lana Turnbull was the first female runner to cross the finish line in 20.21. She placed eighth overall.
Euan Rennie ( 19.13) and Al Aitken (19.15) came fourth and fifth respectively while Alan Knowles was seventh in 19.46.
Livingston AC’s Judith Hargreaves recorded a new personal best of 23.58, which saw her place third female and 22nd overall.
LOTHIAN RUNNING CLUB
Another week meant another marathon Super-Vet title for the club’s Shona Young while her brother Paul also picked up a title on this occasion as well.
The LRC duo were taking part in the The Speyside Single Malt Marathon better known as ‘The Dramathon’ which is a marathon-distance race along the Speyside Way from Glenfarclas distillery to Glenfiddich distillery.
A total of 367 runners completed the race with Shona finishing an excellent 32nd overall, sixth female and first in the super-vet category with a time of 3:36.56. Paul crossed the line in 3:44.48 to place 48th overall and the leading male supervet.
Alan Roberston completed the club’s representation in the race with his time of 4:43.28 seeing him finish 217th overall and fourth in the vintage-vet category.
A couple of club members tackled marathons on foreign fields with Neil Graham competing the Toronton Marathon in 4:01.46 and Stewart Harris finishing in the Amsterdam Marathon
in 4:21.57 despite picking up an injury during the race.
Meanwhile, the cross-country season is now underway and Saturday saw match one in the East District League at Stirling University.
The club were represented in the three junior boys’ age categories as well as both the senior men’s and women’s events. The results were as follows:
Under-11 boys (1600m): 20th Danny Fletcher (6.55), 49th Jay McGarry (8.18). Under-13 boys (3000m): 14th Aaron Smyth (10.53), 21st Jonathan Collings (11.15).
Under-15 boys (4000m): 27th Murray
Close (12.16).
Senior women (6000m): 34th Andrea Cameron ( 28.03), 49th Claire Harris (29.31).
Senior men ( 8000m): 93rd Sam McIntosh ( 35.55), 115th Craig Pirie (36.51), 123rd Jim Beattie (37.02),158th Brian Lees (38.54), 167th Kenton Jones (39.11), 203rd Dougie Hunter (41.11), 211th George Gilhooley (41.42), 244th John Robertson ( 44.46), 254th Jim Alexander (45.50).
Finally, despite having her season curtailed by injury, Hannah Steel still put enough points on the board to finish third in the Scottish Highland Games Association Youth Girls League for races over 400m and was presented with her award at the SHGA annual awards dinner in Glenrothes.