The Lothian club foursome of John Malcolm, Paul Young, Finlay Slane and Brian Reid contested the Hunter Bog Trot Hill Race at Holyrood Park on Saturday. Conditions were sunny with the odd hailstones shower. The 6.5km course with a climb of 240 metres takes the runners from St Margarets Loch...
Jim Alexander was the Lothian club’s sole representative in Sunday’s Heaven & Hell Half Matathon at Perth. Jim finished in 75th place covering the 13.1 course from Scone Airport in 1 hour 57 minutes 45 seconds which placed him 75th overall and 10th in the MV50 category. 106 Runners completed...
Euan McIntosh had an excellent run in Sunday’s Mulberry Bush Montesson Balfron 10k race. The Lothian runner came home in 4th place in 37 minutes 29 seconds. Paul Young was running his 3rd race in four days at Balfron where he finished in 75th place in 43 minutes 57 seconds. A...
Continuing what has been a successful weekend for club members, Mike Lieberman took a category win in the Whitstable Parkrun in Kent on Saturday. In cool, breezy but dry conditions, Mike covered the slightly undulating scenic seaside course in 21 minutes 24 seconds which placed him 6th overall and winner of the MV60...
Jo [Hall] Williams turned in the performance of the weekend by a Lothian Running Club member by racing to victory in the female category of the Epilepsy Action Bradford 10k on Sunday. Jo crossed the finish line in Centenary Square in an excellent 39 minutes 38 seconds which was a new...
Lothian Running Club veteran athlete Alan Robertson contested the gruelling Hoka Highland Fling Race on Saturday. The 53 mile multi-terrain ultra run along the West Highland Way saw the runners set off at 6am from Milngavie, and for many it would be 12 hours later before they crossed the finish line in...
Lothian Running Club’s Sarah Inglis made her Strathclyde Parkrun debut a winning one on Saturday morning. Sarah, who holds the women’s Parkrun course records at both Falkirk and Edinburgh covered the 5k course within Strathclyde Park in 17 minutes 45 seconds which also placed her an excellent 5th place overall...
Chloe Cox made it 3 wins in a row and 19 in total at Saturday’s Edinburgh Parkrun. The Lothian RC member covered the 5 course in 18 minutes 05 seconds which also placed her 9th overall in a huge field of 471 runners. An improvement in conditions from...
Paul Young was the club’s only representative at Thursday evenings Kinross 10k Road Race.
Paul covered the 10k course from the Loch Leven Campus in 43 minutes 06 seconds which placed him 36th out of the 126 finishers.
Results
There are two reports in this weeks West Lothian Courier.
http://www.westlothiancourier.co.uk/west-lothian-sport/2013/04/25/local-runners-impress-at-london-marathon-62405-33230470/
http://www.westlothiancourier.co.uk/west-lothian-sport/other-sport/2013/04/25/junior-athletes-at-livingston-open-competition-62405-33230468/