Weekend update – national league, Screel Hill Race and parkruns

The first National league event took place in Kilmarnock starting the outdoor track and field season for our U/17 and Senior/U/20 athletes. Thank you to our officials – John Coyle, David Wallace and Sheena MacDonald making the trip to Kilmarnock to volunteer.

By all accounts strong winds against the athletes slowed down our sprinters with winds over 4m/s in some cases recorded during the event.

Results below
U/17 Women
Helena Hughes 8omH 15.53 W/S -3.9 and 100m 14.45 W/S -1.2
Kara Lindsay 300m 46.52

U/17 Men
Abraham Lanahan 100m 12.51 PB W/S -3.2 , HJ -1m 75 PB TJ 13.81 W/S +2.6

U/20 Women
Ava Millican 400m 61.77
Tammy Adelabu LJ 4.11m W/S +0.6

Sen Men
Arif Chapti 100m 12.55 W/S +0.00
Carson Graham (M40) PV 2.50 -Hammer 23.19 PB

Screel Hill Race
A large group of hill runners made it down to the Solway coast for the first Scottish Hill Runners championship event of 2025. Joe Symonds (1st MV40) and John Connaghan (1st M55) came away with the hill runners prizes. Harry Pulham was our highest male in 7th and Elena Heger highest female in 4th. If coach, Malcy P, has his maths correct we were 2nd male and 2nd female team in this first of 6 race series.

An impressive 23 shetts ran in total

Further afield Jamie Burns finished 3rd in the Zurich 10km in a time of 30.49 over a very hilly course.

Congratulations to Taha Ghafari who helped Highgate (His English club) to 2nd place in the English 12 stage relay over the weekend .He recorded a top 10 time after finishing 2nd on the first leg .

Welcome to Matthew Byers who started as our new development officer last week .He had the opportunity to meet a lot of members /parents and coaches last Tuesday -He is currently on holiday this week but will continue to meet as many people as possible in the coming weeks .

Important call to all members -we still need helpers for our Shettleston Babcock 10km due to take place on the 11th May in Glasgow -A big thank you to the members who have came forward -Please contact John Mackay -secretary @shettlestonharriers.org.uk if you can now help.

With the London Marathon only a few weeks many of our club members are just finishing off their final preparations .Weynay Ghebresilasie who is currently being supported by our kit providers Joma have produced a fantastic piece of promotion -Check out this

London is not only the place to be as we also have members running Manchester Marathon and after his high placing last year Lachlan Oates must be considered one of the favourites.

Good weather conditions continue for Park runners

It was good to see some familiar faces this weekend and also some from the past too. Kevin Alston, Dan Lowe, Kevin Slaven and Peter Avent all making appearances and whom have featured over the years in cross country,  road and track.

Best wishes to everyone for the summer race season coming up.

Tollcross Parkrun
Gerry Mason 27.14 74th

Edinburgh Parkrun
Peter Avent 16.00 2nd

Elder Park
Dan Lowe 17.17 1st

Fort William
Tom Owens 18.44 1st
Robert Patterson 25.39 20th

Palacerigg Parkrun
John Duffy 21.02 6th

Pollok Parkrun
Raymond Loughran 30.12 214th

Strathclyde Parkrun
Kevin Slaven 23.08 106th

Tollcross Parkrun
Ronnie Strachan 17.53 2nd
David Murphy 22.16 11th
Bob Porteous 27.37 41st

Ury Riverside Parkrun
Kevin Alston 20.02 9th

Victoria Parkrun
Calum Oates 17.17 5th