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Olympic Tickets

We as a club have been able to buy 2 tickets for one session of Track & Field. We would like to offer them to a member of the club. Obviously you will need to pay for your own transport and accommodation but the tickets are paid for by the club.

If you are interested please contact Jim Green jim.green1@btinternet.com by Monday 9th July 2012

If there are more than one person interested we will do a draw.

The details of the session are  ...

Date: Tuesday 7th August 2012
· Time: 1000 – 1235 hours

England Athletics U17/U15 Championships Wednesday 27th June 2012

scottishathletics have organised transport and accommodation for the England Athletics U17/U15 Championships in Bedford on 18/19 August. Travel will be on Friday 17 and returning after the match on 19 August. Transfers will be arranged from hotel to track each day

To ensure we get sufficient numbers for this to go ahead, can you please book your place by 20 July 2012

Athletes are required to enter themselves

To book your place contact Mary Anderson on 0131 476 7330 or email mary.anderson@scottishathletics.org.uk
Personal coaches and supporters are also welcome and encouraged to be part of the scottishathletics party

Congratulations to Caroline Gibson

(pictured with husband Neal)

who finished the 95mile ultra marathon

West Highland Way Race 2012

in 31hrs 40mins 30sec in 111th place

on Saturday 23rd June 2012

On Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June 2012 3x800m relay Scottish Athletics Championships

took place at Pitreavie Stadium, Dunfermline.

The Under 16 Boys team of Euan Trout, Euan Gillham and Gavin McArdle won Gold .

The Under 16 Girls team of Jemma Reekie, Emma Kelly and Sarah Dempsey won Gold.

The Under 14 boys team and the Under 14 girls team both just missed out on the medals in 4th place.

The Under 16 Boys team finished 6th.
 

The Senior Men's 4x400m team also won gold.

At the 3000m Scottish Championships the Under 18 title was won by Euan Gillham.

Congratulations to those who took part in the Brian Goodwin 10k on Friday 22nd June 2012

Full Results

Euan McKerral finishing 2nd in Polaroid Vale of Leven 5k on Sunday 10th June 2012 in a time of 18mins 46secs

Congratulations to Olympic Torch Bearer Elaine Green

Congratulations to Olympic Torch Bearer Jemma Reekie, in Kilmarnock

Some results from the weekend

Isle of Skye Half Marathon - Saturday 9th June 2012

Polaroid Vale of Leven 10k on Sunday 10th June 2012

Full 10k results

Polaroid Vale of Leven 5k on Sunday 10th June 2012

Full 5k Results

Congratulations to the following athletes who competed with distinction at the Scottish Senior Athletic Championships

at Scotstoun on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd June 2012
 
Silver Medal - Martin Lipton (400 metres hurdles in seasonal best of 52.96 seconds);
 
Bronze Medals - Holly Belch (100 metres hurdles); Jack Lochans (High Jump);
 
Also good performances by Blair Crawford (4th in 400 metres in 48.94 seconds); James Quinn (7th in 200 metres in personal best time of 22.98 seconds); Sarah Glenny (finalist in 400 metres); Connor Henderson (finalist in 400 metres hurdles); and Judith McNicol (finalist in 100 metres hurdles).

Anyone we missed?

Sustrans race on Wednesday, 6th June 2012

Video of the race (4mins 48secs)

Congratulations to those who ran the Sustrans race on Wednesday, 6th June 2012
 

Congratulations to Naonie Heffron who finished 1st

Results ....

Photos taken by John Kynaston at the start

Photos taken by Dougie Biggart at the turn

Photos taken by Michael Finlay on the course

Congratulations to those who ran in the Polaroid Dumbarton 10k on Thursday 31st May 2012

Picture taken by Michael Finlay .... more photos on Flickr

Tony Carrol (38.30) and Catherine Stewart (42.26) also ran but their times were not recorded as there was a problem with the timing chip.

Full results

John Kynaston's race report

Congratulations to those who ran in the Kilpatrick's Hill race on Wednesday 30th May 2012

Congratulations to those who ran the Kirkcudbright Half Marathon on Saturday 26th May 2012

Paul Arcari 1st - 1:13.15
Neil Fowler 74th - 1:51.18
Tony Burke 99th - 2:00.09

154 finishers

Full Results
 

Young Athletes League at Meadowbank, Sunday 27th May 2012

Photos taken by Alf Gillham

Congratulations to Hayley Haining who was third/first Scot at the Edinburgh Marathon in 2 hours 45 minutes 17 seconds;
 
and to Gemma Rankin who was second/first Scot at the Edinburgh Half-Marathon in 76 minutes 55 seconds

(just three seconds outside her pb);
 
and to Catherine Stewart who was first lady/fourth overall at the Island of Tiree 10K

(which included 2000 metres of sand running) in 43 minutes 44 seconds;
 
and to all club athletes who took part in the Edinburgh Marathon/Half-Marathon.

Claire Gibson wants to add the Scottish 1500m title to a couple of highlights in 2012.

The Kilbarchan AAC captain made her Great Britain debut at the age of 29 back in January when she ran in the Kelvin Hall as Mo Farah graced the last international athletics event in the old Glasgow arena.

Gibson then won the British indoor 1500m in Sheffield on a day when she only just missed the qualifying time for the World Indoors in Turkey.

Now she could line up against young pretender Laura Muir (Dundee Hawkhill) next weekend at 1500m in what could be one of the highlights of the Scottish National Senior Championships. 'I have already had a 1500m best this year and I am looking towards the 1500m a bit more - including at Scotstoun,' said Claire.

‘My experience as a 1500m runner is still quite low even though I am slightly older. I raced 800s right up until last year. I maybe did one 1500 per season.

'I did a full indoors at 1500, four races I think, and I am going to say 1500s right up to the Olympic trials. You never say never but we have European Championships this year as well and that's at the back of your mind.

'It is before the Olympics and the GB team will be selected before the Olympic trials in Birmingham. There is no actual trial event, it will be based on times.

Gibson flew all the way to Japan last month for a high-class 800m race but it turned into a very tough couple of days as she suffered from food poisoning.

‘I am warming up and I knew I felt terrible but I was thinking ‘Maybe I'll be okay’. It's only two laps but as soon as the gun went I really was struggling from the off. I had travelled all the way to Japan and I was thinking ''I can't come here and not even race, this is why I am here.''

‘It was maybe a bit foolish and it took me a little while to recover from that as well. The flights, the time difference and the stomach upset on top of it as well.’

‘It was IAAF meet and they tend to cater quite well for western athletes, so they have stuff that suits you. It was just poor timing. I can't trace it back to the actual thing I ate. I don't know what it was.’

In the men’s high jump, there’s an exciting competition looming with Scotland’s three best men – Ray Bobrownicki (Victoria Park-Glasgow), Dave Smith (Giffnock North) and Allan Smith (Edinburgh AC) – set to be involved.

*The scottishathletics National Senior Championships are at Scotstoun Stadium on Saturday 2 June and Sunday 3 June. The action starts at 1pm on Saturday and 12.30pm on Sunday.

Entry for kids is free and adults are £3.

 

Message from Allison Simpson

Kit Carriers Needed on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd June 2012 at Scotstoun .....

Details are

Age 9-12 year olds as Kit carriers

Report time would be one hour before start of track events on Saturday and Sunday.

They will get lunch, an event t-shirt and a Puma Bag.

Please can you send names and club to ross.cunningham@scottishathletics.org.uk

Sorry for the short notice
 

Congratulations to Nicole Treacy,

(Kilbarchan athlete)

who was crowned Miss Scotland this week.

Full story

Congratulations to those who ran in the Polaroid Clydebank 10k on Thursday 24th May 2012

Photos taken by Kenneth Phillips

The busy summer season continues and in the last week ..

At the BUPA meeting in Manchester, Derek Hawkins finished 13^th, 3^rd Brit, in 29 minutes 41 seconds and will now compete in the GB Olympics 10,000m trial next month

Christina Rankin represented Scotland West at the Inter Counties Hill Running competition at Goyt Valley in the Peak District, was 9th, time 60 minutes exactly. First home for the West and leading them to 5^th team position. 

We had a strong team at Aberdeen last Sunday, for the Men's League Division 2 competition.

A great result to win on the day, now 2^nd overall, 2 meets to go and in good position to gain promotion at the end of the season.

Several winners including Jack Lochans Triple Jump (12.22m), Long Jump (5.93m), Scott MacAulay 400m (51.55s),800m (1.56.99), Guillaume Titiro, in his final appearance for the club, the 110m Hurdles (16.85s) and 400m Hurdles (57.74s) and Conor McNulty 3K Steeplechase (9.29.23). Also major contributions by Mark Chisholm and James Quinn in the sprints and also from Andrew Cunningham, Chris Devenney, Craig Haxton, Gavin McArdle,Adrian Mendez-McVeigh.

Thanks to our managers and officials, David and Morag, Jason, Jacqui Lochans, David Hughes and Robert Connell.

The second meeting of the Scottish Women's League was also on at the weekend, at Meadowbank, we competing as part of Team West, Still no results, Laura Stark  a winner the under 15 girls 1500m in 4.55.10+, 2nd in the Scottish rankings. Thanks to our club rep, Eleanor McNicol, for all her work.

Also runners at the Helensburgh Polaroid 10K .. Max at the Goatfell race .. the Pollok Park 5K .. and no doubt other events ..

Congratulations to those who ran the Polaroid Helensborough 10k on Thursday 17th May 2012

For anyone interested .....

Kelvin Giles is delivering a workshop at Scotstoun Stadium on Saturday 26th May. Kelvin is a world class coach and expert in movement dynamics, having worked across a number of sports, both in the UK and Australia. Kelvin has been a regular at the IFAC event the past two years and his knowledge has been well received by all coaches attending.

Coaches who are full members of scottishathletics (£25 for three years) can access this workshop free of charge. If any coach from outside the sport or anyone who is not a member can still access the course by paying a fee of £20. This may be of interest to some of your sportscotland coaching officers, please feel free to advertise it with them.

Coaches should return the booking form with payment (if applicable) to jim.goldie@scottishathletics.org.uk

More information on Kelvin Giles can be found on his website www.movementdynamics.com

West District Track & Field at Ayr - Saturday 12th May 2012

Summary of Club Results

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012 - CLOSING DATE APPROACHING

There is just a few days left to enter the Scottish National Senior Championships and Junior 4x100m Relay Championships which take place on the Saturday 2 June and Sunday 3 June 2012 at Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow. Junior Relay entry forms will be sent to the club secretary of all affiliated clubs.

This competition is an open competition and open to Under 18 athletes and over.

Entries close on Friday 18th May 2012 with online entries remaining open until midnight on Sunday 20th May 2012.

The common problem members face is logging in or activating membership. To login please note that your user name is either your SA number (i.e. SA0001) or your name with a dot in lower case (i.e. mary.smith) and enter your password. If you have forgotten your password select ‘Forgot password’.

Athletes, clubs and coaches are urged to enter TODAY for events and you can do so by clicking here you can also download

the Outdoor 2012 entry form.

There have been some important changes made to the processing of entries so please pay particular interest to the information printed within the entry from. Please note there will be NO LATE ENTRIES following the closing date on Sunday.

If you are experiencing problems entering please email: ross.cunningham@scottishathletics.org.uk before midnight on Sunday 20 May 2012. Entries for any of these events received after midnight on the 20 May 2012 will not be granted entry.

*Please note that scottishathletics will still be operating under IAAF age groupings for the Districts and the National Championships for the remainder of the 2012 season. Under-12 superTEAMS (only), Under-14, Under-16, Under-18, Under-20 and Senior.

Congratulations to Elaine Eadie (pictured left) who won the top Junior award (u20) at the Women's 10K on Sunday 13th May 2012 in a time of 41mins 37secs

 Glasgow Women's 10k on Sunday 13th May 2012

Photos taken by Donald Kennedy ...

Kilbarchan Club Champs Hill Race, to be run in conjunction with Glenpark Harriers, on Wednesday 16th May 2012

 Cornalees Hill Race

Details are on Greenock website

Register from 18:00 to 18:50 at pavilion in Orangefield, changing & toilets, or if late enter at start.

Route: from Woodstock Road at Pennyfern to Hillside Hill (the hill above the Cornalees Centre) and back again.
Junior race, about 1/2 mile, starts 19:15, senior one at 19:30.

About 5.5 miles, well marked & stewarded, tea, coffee & cakes available after.

Congratulations to all those who ran the Glasgow Women's 10k on Sunday 13th May 2012

Gemma Rankin finishing 6th

(Photo from Charles Gordon)

Full results

Summary of Results ...

Young Athletes League - Sunday 6th May 2012 at Grangemouth

Young Athletes League - Sunday 6th May 2012 at Grangemouth

Photos taken by Gary Fawcett

Congratulations to Hayley Haining (1st place) and Gemma Rankin (5th place)

who represented Scotland at the Lillebreart International Half Marathon, near Copenhagen, Denmark, on Saturday 5th May 2012.

Full Results

Central & South of Scotland Athletics League Sunday 29th April 2012

Photos taken by Gary Fawcett

Video of John & Katrina Kynaston running the Hoka Highland Fling on Saturday 28th April 2012

Lesley McKerral's Hoka Highland Fling Race report

Photo before the race smiling and then after running 53miles !!

Congratulations to those who ran the 53mile Hoka Highland Fling on Saturday 28th April 2012

Official times ....

95th Stephen Speirs (and Gyp) 10hrs 28mins 35secs

 225th Calum McKerral 12hrs 04mins 46secs

255th Katrina Kynaston (left) 12hrs 25mins 19secs

256th John Kynaston 12hrs 25mins 21secs

346th Lesley McKerral 13hrs 47mins 48secs

Katrina finished 3rd F50

Results

John Kynaston's race report

Some photos on Flickr

Video of the race to come!!

Congratulations and best wishes to club captain Claire Gibson who has been invited to compete at the IAAF meeting at Kawasaki Stadium, near Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday 6th May 2012.
 
Best wishes also to Hayley Haining and Gemma Rankin who are the two-woman team which will represent Scotland at the Lillebreart International Half Marathon, near Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sunday 6th May 2012.

NEW DATE FOR CLUB HILL RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Confirmed for Cornalees, Greenock, Wednesday 16th May 2012

More details to follow, register from Greenock Glenpark Pavilion18:00 onwards probably 19:00 or 19:15 start, Junior Race also.

CLOSING DATE LOOMS LARGE

Please note that the District Championships on the 12th & 13th May 2012 and that the closing date is this weekend.

The scottishathletics summer track and field season starts with the District Championships over the weekend of 12th & 13th May 2012.

Please remember that the closing date for all District (NORTH/EAST/WEST) Championships is this weekend, Friday for postal entries and Sunday 23.59pm for EAST and WEST online entries. If you are experiencing problems with the online system please email ross.cunningham@scottishathletics.org.uk before Sunday 29th April 2012 at 23.59pm.

The common problem members face is logging in or activating membership. To login please note that your user name is either your SA number (i.e. SA00001) or your name with a dot in lower case (i.e. mary.smith) and enter your password. If you have forgotten your password select ‘Forgot password’.

Enter online

All postal entries should be sent to the organisers of each District Championship:

North – John Findlayson, 15 Woodlands Terrace, Westhill, Inverness IV2 5DP
East – Bill Walker, 33 Claremount Bank, Edinburgh EH7 4DR
West – Ricky Taylor, 63 Cedar Road, Viewpark Ayr KA7 3PG

*Please note that the scottishathletics offices will be closed on Friday so don’t delay get your entry in TODAY!

The Districts will operate slightly different from previous years in that host clubs from each of the three areas will now lead on the organisation of the championships. As you will see from the entry form, entry process for each district Championship is slightly different.

Queens Park (Inverness), Meadowbank Stadium (Edinburgh) and Dam Park (Ayr) are the venues for the North, East and West District Championships.

Athletes, clubs and coaches are urged to now start entering for events and you can do so by visiting www.scottishathletics.org.uk and downloading the Outdoor 2012 entry form.

There have been some important changes made to the processing of entries so please pay particular interest to the information printed within the entry from.

*Please note that scottishathletics will still be operating under IAAF age groupings for the Districts and the National Championships for the remainder of the 2012 season. Under-12, Under-14, Under-16, Under-18 and Under-20.

Virgin London Mini-Marathon pictures ....

Scottish u15 teams

Euan Gillham (top right)

Jemma Reekie (far left), Gwen Gillham (3rd from left), Sarah Dempsey (4th from left)

David Cummings 7mile Handicap Race

Video of the race by John Kynaston ...

Taken from Scottish Athletics web site .....

Kilbarchan athlete Euan Gillham proved he was the best in Britain at the Money Giving Mini Marathon in London. The young Scot won the Under-15s race through the streets of the English capital by a six-second margin in terrific style. It means Gillham has followed in the footsteps of none other than Mo Farah and Steph Twell as previous winners of Mini Marathon titles in past years.

Euan’s superb run, aided by Josh Kerr, Jonathan Glen and Robert Bough, helped Scotland to silver medals in the team race in the Boys Under-15s. Kerr (Edinburgh AC) finished fifth, Glen (Inverclyde AC) in seventh while Bough (Edinburgh AC) was 22nd. That was a terrific effort by the four counters, backed up by Aidan Thompson (Pitreavie) and Fraser Glass (Victoria Park-Glasgow), in the overall team race.

Neil Gourley was another young Scot who impressed as he claimed the bronze medal in the three-mile race for Boys Under-17s. The Giffnock North athlete sought to keep in touch with the leaders throughout with Max Aitchison the next best Scot at 15th place.

In the Girls Under-17s our best athlete was Oonagh Dunnett (Edinburgh AC) who was 18th while Catriona Graves (Garscube Harriers) was the highest in the Girls Under-15s at 19th place. All these placings overall from combined regional and 'borough challenge' race.

Congratulations to those ran in the Club David Cummings 7mile Handicap Race today

Congratulations to Siobhan Inglis who won ..

Thanks to Arthur Smith and Brian Graham for marshalling the course.

More photos taken by Brian Graham

John Kynaston's head cam of the race to come!!

Congratulations to those who ran the Virgin London Marathon today ...

Sunday 22nd April 2012 .. David Cummings trophy .. club 7mile handicap

Meet Kilbarchan pavilion at 1pm

All David Cummings Records 199-2011

If you are planning to run please email jkynaston00@hotmail.com so that I can work out your handicap. Thanks

Kilbarchan Results from ....

Saturday 14th April Scottish Universities Track & Field

Sunday 15th April 2012 Open Graded Meeting at Ayr

Congratulations to club members Hayley Haining and Gemma Rankin who have been selected to represent Scotland at the international half-marathon at Lillebreart, Denmark, on Sunday 6th May 2012.
 
Also best wishes to Gemma, Robert Connell, Lorraine Gribben and any other members of Kilbarchan AAC who are competing at the London Marathon on Sunday 22nd April 2012.
 
We look forward to hearing their stories.

Sunday 22nd April 2012 .. David Cummings trophy .. club 7mile handicap

Meet Kilbarchan pavilion at 1pm .. a good working run for a Sunday.

If you are planning to run please email jkynaston00@hotmail.com so that I can work out your handicap. Thanks

Congratulations to Gemma Rankin (pictured left with her sister, Lee) who won the Scottish 10-mile road race championship at the Tom Scott event, Strathclyde Park, Motherwell, in a personal best time of 57 minutes 45 seconds.
 
Also to Hayley Haining who won the Balloch to Clydebank half-marathon in a new course record of 75 minutes 50 seconds
 
And to club member Father John Eagers who completed the Paris Marathon in 3 hours 39 minutes 38 seconds.

Congratulations to those who ran the Balloch to Clydebank Half Marathon today

Kilbarchan results ...

Full results

Please note that the Whangie Whizz Hill Race planned for Wednesday 25th April 2012 has been cancelled.

This was to be our club hill race championship.  An alternative race is being considered. We'll post venue and date when it's decided.

Congratulations to Brian Graham who ran the Lochaber Marathon today in 4hrs 34mins 34secs

For those interested in Hill Running

Junior Calendar 2012 and information

For those interested .... Open Track and Field Meeting (not graded) at Dampark Stadium, Ayr on Sunday 15th April 2012

More details including timetable

News from the weekend ....

Glasgow Running Network 5K on Sunday 1st April 2012

Paul Hughes finished 3rd (and first veteran though that was not an official category) in the men's with a time of 18:07

and Lynne McPhee won the women's event in 21:17. 

Full Results

Schools International Cross Country at Strathallan on Saturday 31st March 2012

Photos taken by Cameron Stalk 

An apology to Euan Trout - Cameron had taken so many photos in the first race he filled up the memory card!

By the time some space was cleared we had missed most of Euan's race!

Photos taken by Alf Gillham

National Road Relay Champs in Livingston on Saturday 31st March 2012

The Kilbarchan Men's Team finished 10th and the Women's Team finished 5th in the National Road Relay Champs in Livingston. The Men's Race was held over 6 laps alternating between a short lap of 3.3 miles and a long lap of 5.8 miles. The Women's Race was held over the same course but only 4 laps. Good to see some of the younger members of the club competing and standing up to the pressure very well.

Derek Hawkins ran the fastest Men's Long Lap in 27m 57s and Hayley Haining ran the 4th fastest Women's Long Lap in 34m 04s.

Leg 1 Robert Quinn (Short)       16m 05s
Leg 2 Derek Hawkins (Long)     27m 57s
Leg 3 Craig Haxton (Short)       17m 31s
Leg 4 David MacKintosh (Long) 35m 36s
Leg 5 Graham Evans (Short)     17m 15s
Leg 6 Donald Petrie (Long)       34m 20s

Leg 1 Elaine Eadie (Short)      20m 28s
Leg 2 Hayley Haining (Long)   34m 04s
Leg 3 Jessica Martin (Short)   19m 56s
Leg 4 Christina Rankin (Long) 34m 49s

Photos on www.roadrunpics.com

Photos taken by Kenneth Phillips

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