ATHLETICS

CROSS COUNTRY LEAGUE Following last Saturday’s East League Cross-Country at Stirling a mere three points separates Central AC and Fife AC in the male overall standings across the five age groups. Standings: 1 Central AC 432, 2 Fife AC 435, 3 Aberdeen AAC 528…7 Dundee Hawkhill 1,206…9 Stirling Tri 1,834. Female: 1 Falkirk Vic. 211, 2 Edinburgh AC 285, 3 Central 305, 4 Dundee Hawkhill 427. Senior men teams: 1 Central AC 57, 2 Edinburgh Univ 111, 3 Fife AC 170…12 Falkland TR 577, 13 PH Racing 644…15 Perth RR 728, 16 St Andrews Univ 732, 17 Carnegie 751, 18 Pitreavie 823…21 Dundee Hawkhill 894…27 Dundee RR 1,240, 28 Strathearn 1,305, 29 Perth Strathtay 1,515…31 Kinross RR 1,547, 32 Anster Haddies 1,606…35 Lomond HR 1,694. AVIEMORE HALF MARATHON A total of 1,270 runners completed the Aviemore Half Marathon but it was the associated 10km that produced a ‘world record’ 25:58 (and female record of 28.59) courtesy of a missing steward reducing the race to 8km! Half marathon results: 1 I Reid (Cambuslang) 71.19, 2 G Bee (Inverness H) 71.38, 3 S Livingstone (Corstorphine) 75.18, 4 W Dashper (Telford) 1st veteran 75.48…16 P Webb (Fife AC) 5th veteran 81.27…34 B Hutchison (Anster Haddies) 1st over-60 85.54. Women: 1 J Anselin (unatt) 82.15, 2 R Armitage (Aberdeen AAC) 85.28, 3 L Cartmell (Moray RR) 85.36…9 S Crow (Perth RR) 94.03, 14 I Burnett (Carnegie) 1st over50 95.01…18 J Learmonth (Dundee Hawkhill) 96.09. LOCHORE 10KM 1 A Budd (unatt) 36.43, 2 M Webster (Falkland TR) 1st veteran 37.41, 3 R Mitchell (Edinburgh Tri) 2nd veteran 37.50…20 R McKenzie (Wee County H) 1st over-50 43.03…36 R Thomson (unatt) 1st over-60 45.36. Women: 1 M Zobel (Lothian RC) 42.24, 2 L Andrew (Dundee Cani-Cross) 43.11, 3 A Sutherland (Falkland TR) 43.47, 4 J Dobson (Kinross RR) 1st over-50 45.15, over-60 C Syme (Pitreavie) 56.52. AMSTERDAM MARATHON Men – 1 Daniel Wanjiru (Kenya) 2:05:19…Billy Gibson 2:43.08, Bruce Scott 2:51.13, Gary Bruce 2:53.04 (all Dundee Hawkhill). Women: Meselech Melkamu (Ethiopa) 2:23:20. BOB’S RUN Entries are now open for Bob’s Run (Bob Stark Memorial 5km for Prostate Cancer Scotland) on December 11 in Falkland at www.entrycentral.com/event/100179.