It was a great morning in Bellahouston Park where we held our Annual Festive Fun Run after the weather related call-off of Pollok parkrun, then back to our club base Nethercraigs for the after party. A total of £130 was raised for our winner Norman Boyle’s nominated charity of Alzheimers Scotland. Dancer (Kelly Ludwig) and Buckfast Monk (Gordon Goldie) won the awards for best outfits!
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The club is currently consulting with members, so that it can draw up a strategy to take it forward over the next few years, and we want to ensure it fully reflects our members views. We’d like to ask all members who haven’t already done so, to take a few minutes to add their thoughts, ideas and suggestions about the club. An email has been sent out with the online consultation form (if you’ve not received it, please check your spam folders!), and can also be found on the club forum. We’ll be running some after-training discussions shortly too. The deadline for responses is 1st December. Thanks very much for taking the time! Danny Phillips & Richard Leyton
Many thanks to everybody who took part today, or helped volunteer to make the event such a success. We hope everybody enjoyed their day out in Glasgow’s south-side! Provisional results are now available at our timing provider at stuweb.co.uk/race/1J2/. For the small number of runners who didn’t have a technical t-shirt available in their size, we should have taken a note of your details so we can post one to you in a few weeks time. If we didn’t take a note of your details today, please get in touch with us via races@bellahoustonroadrunners.co.uk by 16th November. Prizes We’d like to express our thanks and gratitude to our sponsor Achilles Heel for their support, providing the prizes and goody bags. Overall winner prizes Male 1st, Robert Gilroy, Cambuslang Harriers, 00:32:28 2nd, Jozsef Farkas, Stirling University Athletics Club, 00:32:32 3rd, Alasdair Campbell, Cambuslang Harriers, 00:32:45 Female 1st, Claire Moffett, Falkirk Victoria Harriers, 00:37:21 2nd, Katie Bain, Edinburgh Athletics Club, 00:38:36 3rd, Laura Wallace, Ayr Seaforth AAC, 00:38:46 Age Category Prizes 1st Male V40, Cris Walsh, 00:35:10 1st Female V40, Ann Robin, 00:38:56 1st Male V50, Chris Upson, 00:36:50 1st Female V50, Jacqui Thomson, 00:41:58 1st Male V60, Brian Hughes, 00:39:07 1st Female V60, Linda Selman, 00:51:22 Team Prizes Male: Bellahouston Harriers (Jack Arnold, David Mackintosh, Darren Mackintosh) Female: Bellahouston Harriers (Janine Dickie, Kristina Greig, Clair McCormick) Most runners were present to collect their prize, but we’ll be in touch with participants who couldn’t make it along to Nethercraigs.
For runners taking part in tomorrow’s event, we hope you’re looking forward to taking part in the 2017 edition of our event. Bellahouston Road Runners certainly looks forward to welcoming you! Final instructions were emailed out to participants on Tuesday, so please check your inbox (and spam folders), for your personalised email with all the details you need. We’ve also put details on our event website at bellahoustonroadrunners.co.uk/events/bella-10k. If you have already received your number, please be at the start line (adjacent to Cycle track in Bellahouston park) by 11.50am for the 12pm start. Your race number should be clearly attached to your front. Safety pins are available at the start area or at Nethercraigs. To ease congestion on the course we’ll be asking runners to assemble in approximate race pace order, so please find the appropriate pace group for your expected time. If you have not received your number, or require changing facilities or secure lockers, registration is at Glasgow Club Nethercraigs (G52 1TQ) from 9.30am to 11.30am. This is 1 mile from the start, so please allow plenty of time. We look forward to welcome you tomorrow. After the race, and after collecting your technical t-shirt and goody-bag, we invite you to the post-race buffet in the dance studio at Nethercraigs (donation requested). The race presentation will take place at approximately 1345 at the Nethercraigs dance studio. Hot Beverages will be available to purchase in Bellahouston Park. Full details are on our event website at: bellahoustonroadrunners.co.uk/events/bella-10k.
Club founder Jimmy Irvine has unveiled the t-shirt design for the 2017 running of the ‘Jimmy Irvine Bella 10k‘, which takes place this Sunday in Bellahouston park. The T-shirt was designed by Bella Road Runner, Greame Pert who said: “I hope the t-shirt shows Jimmy’s enthusiasm and enduring commitment to running. Jimmy does not make it to club as often as he’d like but is still running.“ Graeme added, “I spent time with Jimmy and Sandra, looking through their old photos and found a great one of Jimmy starting a leg of the London to Brighton relay in 1959. His club mate is exhausted as he passes the baton to a sprightly eager Jimmy who is just raring to go. Jimmy is a great ambassador for running, our local hero and worth celebrating. His photo is centre of 2017 club T-shirt” Current club President, Richard Leyton added “Everybody who’s seen the design, and heard Jimmy’s story behind it loves it. We’re all really looking forward to seeing it out and about on the streets of Glasgow over the coming weeks and months.” For entrants on Sunday, details are on the event website at bellahoustonroadrunners.co.uk/events/bella-10k/ – We’d remind the runners who didn’t receive their number in the post, or who wish to use the changing facilities, that registration and changing are at Glasgow Club Nethercraigs (G52 1TQ), approx 1 mile from the start. The event is sponsored by Achilles Heel, and supported by Tunnocks.
This month’s Bletha is now online! Copies are available at club. Stories include: Gold run, Shona & Ann for Scotland, Jimmy T, Haddayaway man. four do thirty, pool and beer, Same a keeper. Coach mark, on the Terry bus. And much much more! Read it here!
Delighted to report that our Ladies Masters team of Ann Robin, Shona Donnelly and Louise Ross won Gold at the 2017 Scottish Athletics National XC Relays yesterday. An absolutely fantastic performance by all three. Delighted that they could share their brilliant result with fellow club members at last night’s annual awards evening. Well done to the many other Bellas that took part at Cumbernauld house, and provided support and encouragement to each other as they ran the testing Cumbernauld course. Provisional results are available. Further congratulations to both Shona and Ann who were recently selected to represent Scotland in November at the British and Irish Masters International XC in Derry. Photo via Scottish Athletics twitter.
We hosted the 2017 Renfrewshire AAA XC Relay, at Netherpollok, on Sunday 22nd October 2017. Many thanks to everybody who helped make the event such a success. Photos from the day are available on our Facebook page) (Albums here and here), and please find the full results for each of the races below: Senior Women Senior Men (updated) U11 Boys U11 Girls U13 Boys U13 Girls U15 Boys U15 Girls U17 Boys U17 Girls
The club had a fantastic turnout at this year’s Great Scottish Run Half Marathon. A total of 51 runners raced the event, as well as providing a set of marshals to help with start line duties (before helping cheer runners along the way), and a number of pacers helping a great many runners achieve Personal Bests and race targets. So a big ‘well done!’ to everybody who took part in some way on the day, and many thanks to the many Bellas out on the course giving a cheer to everybody too! A particular congratulations for three of our Ladies – Catriona McDonald, Romy Beard and Katie Mathieson – who took home a fantastic Gold in the Scottish Half Marathon Championships. Brilliant achievement, and culmination of a lot of hard work. Well done!
Calderglen Country Park in East Kilbride on Friday saw 14 Bellas brave the midges to tackle the 10k trail race. Congratulations to Elaine Somerville was first Bella home and first FV40, Stevie Bell first MV65 and the 2nd place ladies team prize was won by Elaine Somerville, Pauline Bradley and Maree Shepard. Despite the undulating, uneven nature of the course with barely any tarmac in sight, the race has proved popular with Road Runners over the years and well worth putting in the diary for next year if you’ve still not given it a try. Well done to everyone who took part and thanks to Calderglen Harriers for hosting a great event. Full results here: Click to access 10kResults2017.pdf photo credit: Colin Hughes
Well done to Bruce Carmichael on winning the Isle of Arran Half Marathon yesterday. Also congratulations to Bruce Carse on winning a silver medal in the 1500m at the scottishathletics National Masters Championships in Grangemouth on Saturday. Great work guys.
Hot off the press: Bletha is now online, and hard copies are available at club. Stories include: Good Win for Bellas! PB Geeks, Beer and chocolate, Yogis, Bellasupport; M10K4, Wilds in the Fintry, Flash, Golden Vets, and Who would rather be sailing? And much much more… Read it here!
Well done to everyone who took part tonight in the President’s Cup. Congratulations to our winners Stephen Harris and Gillian Hamilton. Fastest times on the night were Bruce Carmichael (16:15) for the men and Shona Docherty (18:34) for the ladies. Shona Donnelly ran exactly her predicted time. Many thanks to all the volunteers tonight who made the event go smoothly, it’s very much appreciated. Full results can be found in the table below. Photo credit Gordon Goldie
It’s now a shield, there’s two of them, and we don’t have a President any more, so “President’s Cup” is perhaps a little inaccurate, but if I’d said “Chairman of the Board of Trustees Shield” race you’d have no idea what I was talking about. The annual 5k handicap race in Bellahouston park takes place on This Wednesday, 21st June. Please wear your vest and we’ll try and get a Club photo if the weather’s half decent. If you don’t wish to run but can make the date, please let us know on the forum, as we always need marshals/timers/finish funnel/registration/camera help. It’s also fun/terrifying (depends on your disposition) to watch a whole heap of runners finish very close together. Numbers can be collected from 6:15pm at Nethercraigs (or in exceptional circumstances from the start at the cycle track in Bella park). If you’ve signed up to Runbritainrankings.com/powerof10.info with Bella as your club and raced a 10k this year we’ll have a time for you. Likewise if you’ve run one of the Club Championship parkruns or 10ks I’ll have a time for you. If you want to make sure then you can add a recent 5k/10k time on the forum. Image designed by Freepik, and font from fontmeme
A busy weekend for the club! Friday evening saw a great turnout at the Harrier’s popular Brian Goodwin 10k, in nearby Pollok park. A friendly welcome and a lovely evening, with Callum Hawkins and Luke Traynor going head-to-head at the sharp end, and the beer and burger a popular reward for everybody who took part (as well as valuable club championship points!). We had a superb 40 runners complete the course, and many members out and about on the course supporting the local event. Delighted to report that Ann Robin was overall third lady home in a fantastic 39:10, and together with Louise Ross and Shona Donnelly, took home the women’s team prize. Well done! Graeme Paterson led the club’s men home in a very impressive 34:59. Best of all, a healthy number of PB’s and season bests. A full race report available on the Harriers website, and the full club breakdown on stuweb. Thanks to the Harriers for once again staging such a super event. A good number of member’s popped along for an easy (or not so easy!) recovery parkrun on Saturday morning, then on Sunday morning 24 members also helped out with marshalling the start of the Glasgow Men’s 10k, a great way to support the many men out taking part as well as help raise the club’s profile. Congratulations to everybody that took part, particularly all the father’s! Particular well done to the 8 members who ran the event, led home by Craig Reid who finished in 4th overall, and Stephen McQuade with a huge PB. Thanks to Camilla Simms and Kevin Queenan for the pics. Loads more photos to be had on our Facebook page, and members are active on our Strava club too.