Course maps and competitor information for the Scottish Athletics West District Cross Country Championships on Sunday 6th December 2015 in Bellahouston park can be found by clicking the button below and are also on the Scottish Athletics website.
Monthly archives: November 2015
Today I joined my fellow Bellas in Gourock for 3 hilly laps of a very Muddy park. Lynn R very kindly collected me and Maz at our old ski centre haunt and off we went to deepest darkest Inverclyde. Lynn was a fellow XC virgin and we weren’t too sure what to expect. I was most afraid of the weather- Hurricane/tornado/Storm Abigail has been showing us her worst for a few days and I was fully expecting howling winds and driving rain. Maz had warned me to bring loads of warm clothes, so as I can go often blue I packed silver blankets and a heated sticky patch thing just in case. To be honest, the reason why I have never entered a XC race before was because I thought they were for “proper runners” and I’m not sure I’m one of them…But I’ll try most things once so I was aiming to get myself round in one piece. The ladies did 3 laps and the boys were doing 5- initially I thought this was a dreadful sexist travesty but by the time I got to lap 2 I was so relieved and thought it was after all very sensible. Oops- no-one tell Beyonce, I don’t think she’d approve! Although Lynn R was having such a great time, she nearly went round for a fourth… The start was signalled by a gun , which gave me a fright and then off we went. The course appeared to me mostly uphill, had some very tight turns and some sections were like running in very cold chocolate mousse. Maz managed a very impressive slide onto her back after just a few metres and retains her title of “runner most likely to fall- and no, she wasn’t pushed!” Kirtseen was then at a disadvantage as this made it harder for her to run because she was laughing so hard! Apparently one of the men got hit on the head by a football too which knocked him down- Gordon Goldie was on duty with the camera and captures this and many other golden moments! About halfway through I had my usual thoughts of “this is crap, who’s idea was this and I hate running” and then came the final wee hill which George pushed me up and I had finished! Hurrah- I didn’t fall over, I wasn’t last and the rain stayed off! All in all not a bad first XC experience It was a pity our poor gazebo ( may he/she rest in peace) wasn’t around to provide us with shelter, but thanks to my Bella mates for the cracking race day banter! Bring on the next XC race.
Well done to everyone who completed the Jimmy Irvine Bella 10k yesterday in dreadful weather conditions. Particular congratulations to our winners: Congratulations to the 2015 prize winners: 1ST MALE Neil RENAULT – Edinburgh Athletic Club 00:31:32 2ND MALE Robert GILROY – Ronhill Cambuslang Harriers 0:32:12 3RD MALE Paul KERR – Edinburgh University Triathlon Club 00:32:36 1ST FEMALE Shona MCINTOSH – Hunters Bog Trotters 00:36:20 2ND FEMALE Megan DAVIDSON – Falkirk Victoria Harriers 00:37:03 3RD FEMALE Donna McHUGH 00:39:34 MV40 Chris WALSH – Bellahouston Harriers 00:34:55 MV50 Wattie MACKAY – Strathearn Harriers 00:36:03 MV60 David KINGHORN – Jog Scotland 00:43:35 FV35 Karen KENNEDY – Carnegie Harriers 0:40:23 FV45 Susie HUBBARD – Ayr Seathforth AAX 00:42:17 FV55 Lorna COYLE – Greenock Glenpark Harriers 00:47:47 MALE TEAM: Bellahouston Harriers :Colin THOMAS, Jack HEATHWOOD and Darren MCQUADE FEMALE TEAM Bellahouston Road Runners : Debs GRAY, Louise ROSS, Ann ROBIN Provisional results are available here: Jimmy Irvine results
Bella Results from the Jimmy Irvine Bella 10k on 8th November 2015 are shown below. Full results available here