Congratulations to the following who ran the Arran Half Marathon on Saturday 29 June 2008

18 Gordon Allison 1.31.16 M40

34 Steve Ogilvie 1.38.05 M40

44 Graham McMillan 1.43.06 M40

57 Dougie Biggart 1.47.12 M50

NOTICE REGARDING JOHNSTONE HIGH SCHOOL from Jason Pender

Donald, Neal, John, Stevie

Congratulations to John Kynaston and Neal Gibson who ran the 95mile West Highland Way Race on Saturday 21 June 2008.

John finished in 11th place in a time of 19hrs 59mins 33secs and Neal was 22nd in 21hrs 08mins 01secs.

Thanks to Donald Petrie, Stevie Hards and Caroline Gibson who were part of the support teams.

Click here to read John's race report.

Click here to see full results on whw race web site.

Report by Arthur Smith ....

Cameron Clark, who on Saturday won the Scottish Schools Triple Jump title with a Kilbarchan under 20s club record of 14.31m, on Sunday added the national under 20s Championship with another fine leap of 14.18m. The 14.31m effort is only 9cm short of the qualifying distance for the Commonwealth Youth Games.

Cameron’s coach David Watson, competed as a Guest in the same event and David smashed his own club record with a superb effort measured at 14.65m.

Holly Belch, who had won the Schools 100mHurdles and 400m Hurdles in the previous 2 days, completed a fine weekend by winning the under 20s 100m Hurdles title, setting a Personal best with the fine time of 14.63seconds.

Lauren Boyd made the journey from Corby worth while by winning the under 20s Shot setting a Kilbarchan club record of 11.18m and Lauren also won two Bronzes, in the Javelin and the Long Jump.

Martin Lipton, who is emerging as one of Britain’s top 400m Hurdlers, won the under 20s title in 54.03 seconds. Craig Fleming, who competes 1^st Claim for Harrow, was in outstanding form, winning the under 23s 200m in 21.42 seconds and also the 100m in 10.70s.

In the under 20s 800m, Andrew Gibson was pipped at the post after a tactical battle and there was also Silver for Paul Leck in the 1500m.

There was a superb Bronze medal for 17 year old Natalie Sharp in a high quality under 20s 1500m, setting a club under 20s record of 4minutes 33.35seconds.

Claire Gibson travelled to Watford again at the weekend where she competed in the British Milers Club 800m. It was another quality run, timed at 2 minutes 4.76 seconds  and Claire is running consistently to this standard. She just needs to take the next step to break into the very top of the UK 800m running.

Away from the track, the Road runners have been busy and at the Skye ½ marathon it was yet another win for Paul Arcari. The course is longer than the standard ½ marathon 13.1 miles, measuring 13.8 miles and hilly as well, which makes his time of 72 minutes 33 seconds very impressive.

Click here to see full results from Skye

Another winner on the roads was Michael Finlay who won the Lochwinnoch Road Race n 35 minutes 50 seconds while at the Vale of Leven Polaroid 10K Road Race, Tom Anderson was again the winner of the over 50s award.

Last week, at the Rouken Glen 10K, Leanne Hamilton was in fine form, winning the Women's race for the second year running, in 38 minutes 15 seconds, a good time over a difficult course.

Congratulations to all those who ran in the Sultans race last night.

Well done to Stuart Williams who won the race

Click here to see Photos of the race

Click here to see Results of the race

Report by Arthur Smith ....

There were some outstanding performances by local young athletes at the Scottish Schools Track and Field Championships at Grangemouth at the weekend.

14 year old David Kerr, who attends Paisley Grammar School sits at the top of the Scottish rankings, and 3^rd in the UK after his outstanding win in the under 15 boys 400m in a time of 52.15 seconds, a time which destroyed the Kilbarchan club record that has stood for 20 years, David was also 2^nd in the 100m in a fast 11.7 seconds.

Sally Webster

Cameron Clark, a pupil at Garnock Academy, won the Triple Jump with a splendid effort measured at 14.31m, breaking the club record of his mentor David Watson, ranking him no 1 in Scotland and 9^th in the UK. Cameron was also 2^nd in the Long Jump with an excellent 6.38m effort.

One of the most remarkable events was the under 15 girls 75m Hurdles in which Hazel Ross from Park Mains School finished 3^rd in a Kilbarchan club record of 11.45 seconds, the result being remarkable in that the first 3 girls ran times which rank them in the top six in Britain. Hazel also just lost out in the 100m, being given 3^rd place with the first three all given the same time of 12.7 seconds.

Holly Belch, a 6^th year pupil at Glasgow Academy, had a double success, winning the 100m Hurdles in 15.41s and the 400m Hurdles in 65.01s. Also in the over 17 girls category, Natalie Sharp, Hutchesons GS, was a comfortable winner of the 1500m in 4.43.47 and Michelle Bell Paisley GS, won the 800m in 2.20.12 as well as winning Bronze in the 400m in 59.28s.

Callum Hawkins, Gryffe HS,  smashed his Personal best when winning the under 17 boys 3K in 8 minutes 45.24seconds and also for the under 17 boys, Connor Henderson, also Gryffe HS, won the 400m Hurdles in 58.11s, remarkably in his first serious attempt at the event. Andrew McLaughlan, Kilwinning Academy, was in good form, winning the under 17 Shot with a throw of 13.99m and Andrew was also 2^nd in the Hammer with 46.47m. In the under 15 boys Shot, Andrew Cunningham, Gryffe HS, was a clear winner with a fine 12.61m and Andrew was also 3^rd in the Long Jump with a leap of 5.21m..

Other Silver medallists included Jamie Milton, St Andrews Academy with a PB of 14.30s for the under 17 boys 100m Hurdles; Graham Evans , Garnock Academy, with a PB of 4 minutes 53.63s for the under 15 boys 1500m steeplechase; Christina Rankin, Castlehead HS, 11minutes 11.1s for the over 17 girls 3K and Kate Gillies, Park Mains HS in the under 15 girls 800m, with a PB of 2.24.64 in her heat.

There were also Bronze medals for Jack Lochans, Paisley GS, who won two, in the 80m Hurdles in 13.12s and the Triple ump with a PB of 10.81m.  Also for Scott MacAulay, Park Mains HS, in the under 17s 1500m in a PB of 4.11.60; James Quinn, Park mains HS, in the under 15s 200m in 24.50s; and for Judith McNicol, Gryffe HS, in the under 17s Triple Jump with a PB of 0.46m which also equalled the Kilbarchan Club record.

Report of previous week by Arthur Smith ....

Three young athletes from Kilbarchan Athletic Club, won Silver medals at National Championships at the weekend.

Andrew Cunningham, who attends Gryffe High School, won his medal by finishing in 2^nd place in the Scottish Schools under 15 boys Pentathlon Championships and was particularly please to produce Personal Best performance in 4 of the 5 events. His Shot effort of 12.88m, puts him at the top of the Scottish rankings this year and his other PBs were 200m 25.2s, 800m 2.26, 80mHurdles 14.6s. A good Long Jump of 5.39m helped towards a total of 2480 points and that coveted Silver medal.

In conjunction with the Schools Pentathlon Championships at Grangemouth, the Scottish 3000m Championships  for under 17 and under 20 athletes, were also staged.

Elspeth Curran produced a Personal best of 10.23.82 to win Silver in the under 20 womens race and there was also an excellent Silver for Callum Hawkins in the under 17 men’s race in a time of 9.06.11.

On the roads, Paul Arcari was winning again, this time the Stranraer ½ marathon in 71.17 and Robin Scott kept up his recent fine form to win the over 60s award at Stranraer, in 1hour 30 min 56 seconds.

There are also a number of midweek events on just now and last week, Claire Gibson travelled to London to compete in the prestigious St Mary’s meeting where she produced another excellent run to finish 2^nd in 2.04.48s. And at the Dumbarton Polaroid 10K last week, Tom Anderson continued his recent resurgence in form, winning the over 50s award in the good time of 35.46. .

Last weekend in Vancouver, Canada, Kerry Lang competed in the World Triathlon Championships and she finished 3^rd Brit in 30^th place overall. Unfortunately for Kerry, it looks like Britain are only going to be allocated 2 places  in the Woman’s team for the Beijing Olympics

Monday's Fartlek Session added to Training Page.

   Congratulations to all those who competed at the Scottish Schools Track & Field Championships, Fri 13 - Sat 14 June at  Grangemouth.

Click here to see Kilbarchan results.

Congratulations to those who ran the Lochwinnoch 6mile race on Saturday 14 June 2008.  Well done to Michael Finlay who won the race and to  Mick McGinley who was 3rd.

Click here to see more photos

Report by Arthur Smith ...

Two Kilbarchan club records were smashed at the Young Athletes League Division One meeting at Linwood last weekend and 14 year old David Kerr was involved in both.

David, who attends Paisley Grammar School, just 2 days earlier had won the Renfrewshire Schools 200m and 400m, won the same 2 events at the League match. Against top class opposition, he smashed the 9 year old club record for the 200m, with a time of 23.57 seconds, which places him top of the Scottish rankings.  David also won the 400m in 54.97 s and finally anchored the 4x400m relay team to victory in what was another new club record. The quartet of James Quinn, Callum Macleod, Eric Conway and David, produced a time of  3.48.28s, which reduced the old record by an amazing 10 seconds.

At the end of the day, Kilbarchan finished in third place behind Edinburgh Athletic Club and Giffnock North, taking another step towards the Scottish final later in the year.

There were several other top performances and also in the under 15 boys category. James Quinn won the 100m (12.06s) and Andrew Cunningham the Shot (12.45m). In the under 13s age group, Derek Colquhoun won the 100m in13.36 seconds and Duncan Webb won the Shot with 8.88m. For the girls, the top performer was Hazel Ross with three 2^nd places in the u15 age group, the 100m in 12.7s, a Personal best, another PB in the Long Jump with 4.96m and 11.59s for the 75mHurdles which is just outside her own club record.

Kilbarchan Athletic Club also had 4 athletes at the prestigious British Milers meeting in Manchester at the weekend. Claire Gibson ran her 2^nd best ever time for the 800m, stopping the watch at 2.04.11. In the Men's 800m, Andrew Gibson recorded 1.54.26 and in the 1500m, Ross Toole was perhaps disappointed with his time of 3.56.25, while Conor McNulty ran a PB of 14.42.15 for the 5000m.

On the Roads, it was that man again as Paul Arcari won the Haddington 5 mile Road Race in 24 minutes 43 seconds and at last week’s Polaroid 10K at Clydebank, Tom Hearle was first in the over 40 category in 32.48 and Tom Anderson first in the M50 category in a time of 35.20.

Monday's Fartlek Session added to Training Page.

Results from Helensburgh Polaroid 10k series Thurs 22 May 2008 added to Results Page

Results from Clydebank Polaroid 10k series Thurs 29 May 2008 added to Results Page

Updated Kilbarchan Track & Field Club Records added to Records Page

Donald Petrie's weekly training diary added to Training Page.

Report by Arthur Smith ....

It was the trial for the GB team for the Olympic Games at the World Cup Triathlon competition in Madrid at the weekend and there was a great effort from Kerry Lang from Elderslie, who finished 3^rd Brit and still has a chance of being selected for Beijing. After a good swim, Kerry was caught out when a breakaway group got away on the bike ride. However she finished strongly at the end of the 10K road run to beat all her other rivals. Two athletes will definitely go to Beijing but the number of places per country, is restricted. A third place being available will depend on overall performances by other countries in the next World Cup event. So far,GB has established a good rating and so Kerry is still hopeful of selection

Much more local, was the second meeting of the Central and South of Scotland League at Grangemouth at the weekend and Kilbarchan Athletic Club, having won the first meeting 3 weeks ago, convincingly won the Sundays event and with one more meeting in August, are within touching distance of retaining the Trophy which they won for the first time last year.

Perhaps the top performance came from Lauren Boyd, who travelled up from Corby to represent the club. Lauren won the Shot (10.16m), Javelin (30.90m), Long Jump (4.76m) and was part of the winning Kilbarchan 4x100m relay team.

Jamie Milton had an outstanding day with individual treble success in the under 17 boys age group.. Jamie won the 100m Hurdles, close to his best with 14.8seconds, Javelin with a PB of 34.08m  and also the Triple Jump (10.86m)..Jack Lochans, competing in the under 15 age group, won the Long Jump (4.83m) and the 80m Hurdles (13.5s) while David Kerr ran a fast 24.2s into a strong headwind, to win the 200m and he also anchored the relay team to victory.

Holly Belch was the class act in the Women's 100m Hurdles, with a time of 16.8s against a gale, and was also fastest in the 200m at 27.1seconds. Holly teamed up with Lauren Boyd, Emma Pettigrew and Michelle Bell to win the women's relay by a distance.

Hazel Ross made a case for being the top under 15 Hurdler in Scotland, beating all her rivals, the time of 12.1s, highlighting the difficult wind conditions. And also for the under 15s, Elaine Eadie was an easy winner if the 1500m. Nile McMillan  won the under 17s High Jump and in the same age group, Judith McNicol and Debbie Henderson were the best by far in the 80m Hurdles.

In the younger age groups, under 13 boys Ryan Richards and Derek Colquhoun show sprint potential and Derek also won the High Jump clearing 1.40m. In the same age group, Christopher McStay shows all round potential with 3^rd places in the Hurdles and 1500m.

Click here to see all Kilbarchan male athletes results

Click here to see all Kilbarchan females athletes results

And last week, at the Scottish Civil Service Championships, Alan McMillan won Shot (8.74m) and Javelin (34.70m) events.

On the Roads at the weekend, it was that man Paul Arcari again, this time winning the Campbeltown ½ Marathon in 71.39 while Robin Scott won the over 60s age group , timed at 90.17. Also at Campbeltown, Calum Morrison won the 10K Road race in 34.17.

Still on the Roads and Hayley Haining competed in the London BUPA 10K Road Race on Monday. The race was run in a downpour but Hayley ran well to finish 6^th in 33.56

Results from the weekend ....

Donald Petrie's weekly training diary added to Training Page.

Monday's Fartlek Session added to Training Page.

Congratulations to Kerry Lang who was the 3rd Britain in the World Cup Triathlon in Madrid yesterday.

Congratulations to Lesley McKerral who ran a pb 3hrs 52mins 22secs at Edinburgh yesterday.

Click here to read Caroline Gibson's report of her Edinburgh Marathon Race

Congratulations to those who ran the Edinburgh Marathon today.

Robert Allison 3hrs 13mins 56secs

Caroline Gibson 3hrs 54mins 44secs (pb)

Neal Gibson 3hrs 54mins 44secs

Anyone else?

Congratulations to John Kynaston who ran the Kirkcudbright Half Marathon yesterday in

1hr 25mins 56secs.

Click here to see full results of the race

Click here to go to John's blog for Photos, report and video

Press release from Arthur Smith ....

Kilbarchan Athletic Club had three athletes competing at the Loughborough International meeting last weekend and all performed well against top class opposition.

24 year old David Watson, a former pupil at Gleniffer High School, won his first Scotland vest, competing in the Triple Jump where he finished in 6th place with an outdoor best performance of 14.52m, just 3 cm short of his own club record that was performed indoors.

Martin Lipton, 19, a former pupil at St Andrews Academy got a late call up for the GB Junior team at Loughborough and was 5^th in the 400metres Hurdles, close to his best with a time of 53.81 seconds.

Scottish 800m Champion 25 year old Claire Gibson, a former pupil of Johnstone High School, was unlucky not to be selected for the Scottish team for the International event. The 25 year old showed her class by winning a quality 800m event in 2 minutes 5.28 seconds

Also last weekend, the Scottish Women's League second meeting, took place at Grangemouth and the Scottish Men's League was staged at Meadowbank.

click here to see Kilbarchan Athletes results from SWAL

In the Women's League, with Kilbarchan athletes competing for Team West, Natalie Sharp won the Senior 1500metres in 4.42.00. There was also a fine Hurdles run from Hazel Ross who won the under 15 girls 75m Hurdles B race in 11.64 seconds, which was faster than the winner on the A race. Hazel also won the B Long Jump with a Personal Best of 4.91m. Holly Belch was 2^nd in the 400m Hurdles and in the under 17 Hurdles events, Judith McNicol was 2^nd in the 80m Hurdles and also in the 300m Hurdles. Team West finished 4^th on the day.

At the Men's League, Kilbarchan had three winners. Conor McNulty won the 3000m Steeplechase by a distance, in 9.39.87 and Cameron Clark won the Triple Jump with 13.15m. Andrew Gibson, last week’s Scottish Closed 1500m winner, won the closest race of the day, the 400m in 50.61 seconds, first and second being given the same time and a photograph deciding the winner..

There were also good places for Craig Stewart 2^nd in the 200m in 23.35s, Scot Hawkins 2^nd in the 1500m in 4.08.50, Cameron Clark 2^nd in the Long Jump with 6.33m and Gary Stevenson 3^rd in the 400m Hurdles in 62.20s. Kilbarchan finished 4^th in the Division 2 competition, missing too many top athletes to make a serious challenge for promotion.

click here to see Kilbarchan Athletes results from SAL Division 2 Meet 2

On the roads, Paul Arcari was a winner yet again. Paul is really in top form this summer and his latest victory was at the Loch Leven ½ marathon, which he won in the good time of 68.01. There was also a good effort from Hannah Waugh, who was 3^rd Senior Woman in 89.05.

It was the Womens 10K in Glasgow at the weekend, with over 10 thousand finishers and a large number of local runners took part in the race around the area of Bellahouston and Pollok Parks. Around 20 Kilbarchan club runners took part with an excellent run from Leanne Hamilton who was 21st,  8^th Scot,  37.44 and also in the top 100 was Lorraine Gribben, 59^th in 42.28 .

Click here to see photos and results from Bellahouston Women's 10k

Congratulations to club athletes who ran the Bellahouston Women's 10K yesterday

Leanne Hamilton (picture left)

21st in 37mins 44secs

Caroline Gibson

298th in 47mins 50secs (pb)

any others?

Claire Gibson, unlucky not to be selected for the Scottish team, won the special Invitation 800m in 2.05.28

Martin Lipton, winning his first GB vest, representing GB Juniors in the International 400mH, close to his best, 5th in 53.81s

David Watson, representing Scotland in the Triple Jump, 5th with 14.52m, a club outdoor best (record 14.55 indoors).

And at the Loch Leven 1/2 marathon on Saturday ..yet again a winner,

Paul Arcari in an excellent 68.04 (chip 68.01)  ..

and W3, Hannah Waugh in 89.15 (chip 89.05)

Click on the following names to read their reports of the Troon 10k race

Michael Finlay         John Kynaston        Neal Gibson      Caroline Gibson

Click here for full results

Click here for just Kilbarchan results

Click here for official photos from Troon Tortoise web site

More photos to come.

Kilbarchan were third behind Giffnock and City of Edinburgh.

More results........

Congratulations to Donald Petrie who finished 2nd M50, 27th overall out of 580 in 26mins 16secs in the Black Rock 5 at Kinghorn in Fife.

Click here to see some more photos of this great race.

Congratulations to those who ran the Mallaig Half Marathon yesterday.

Kilbarchan results ...

1st Paul Arcari 1hr 9mins 54secs
2nd Derek Brines 1hr 21mins 53secs
3rd Stevie Hards 1hr 26mins 54secs

Congratulations to John McMillan who came 5th in the Edinburgh to North Berwick 22mile Road Race yesterday in a time of 2hrs 17mins 42 secs

Click here to see full results

John Kynaston's video diary of his Highland Fling Run added to Photos Page.

Plus correction to Results from CaSSLe Summary....

in the u15 boys, James Quinn won the 100m in 12.1s+ ..

(James didn't win the High Jump - he lost on count back)

Report from Arthur Smith ...

Yesterday at Linwood, the club got off to a flyer at the first meeting of the Central and South of Scotland League winning the match and finishing over 120 points ahead of of the second placed club. We won this league last year, for the first time and yesterday was a great start towards retaining the Trophy.

It was a beautiful day, there were many winners and lots of PBs ..details to follow.

And in Ireland on Saturday, at the Khockdhu Mountain Race, in the Junior Girls Event there was a fine win for Jessica Martin representing Scotland, in a time of 27.33 . 5th was Christina Rankin in 32.06.

CaSSLeague Div 1 Meet 1 at Linwood .. 

1st Kilbarchan

Event winners .. ..

U15 boys

400m David Kerr 54.1+;

High Jump James Quinn 1.60m+

4x100 50.0

U17 men

SP/Dis Andrew McLaughlan 13.59/29.15;

3K Callum Hawkins 9.05.3+;

100m Matthew Wallace 11.9+;

High Jump Blair Crawford 1.70=;  

4x100m 47.5

Senior Men

SP Andrew Dawkins 15.74*;

TJ David Watson 14.34;

3Ks/c Conor McNulty.46.7; 

4x100 44.6 Chisholm, Stevenson, Clark, Watson..

U15 girls

4x100m 54.1

U17 women

4x100m 51.1

Senior Women

100m Emma Pettigrew 13.6

800m Natalie Sharp 2.18.0

4x400 4.07.3  Yule, Sharp, Treacy, Bell

VW 100m Gillian Docherty 14.2 ..

* = club record

+ = PB 

Congratulations to John Kynaston who came 14th today in the Highland Fling - a 53 mile ultra race from Milngavie to Tyndrum in a time of 9hrs 44mins 41secs.

John took over 50mins off his pb.

Donald Petrie retained the Club Hill Racing title finishing 17th overall in 33.22. Michael Finlay was close to Donald on the way up but lost ground and finished 35th overall in a PB of35.11. Scott Urie did well in his first attempt, finishing 64th in 39.42 with Stevie Hards, who was badly affected by cramping hamstrings, 68th in 39.59. Club Hill convener Max McFarlane was 111th, time 58.24.

In the Girls race, the Eadie sisters had their first go at a Hill race and did well with Elaine 2nd and Jenny 4th in the girl’s race while Simon Urie was 3rd in the boy’s race.

click here for results

Congratulations to the Kilbarchan trio who won the top team award at the Tom Scott 10mile Road race at the weekend. Paul Arcari continued his recent good form, with a fine run for 2^nd place, time  50.48 and he was well supported by Tom Hearle in 6^th place (53.39) and Calum Morrison who was 9^th (56.06).

The race was won by Gardiner Masson with Robert Allison 2nd and

Donald Petrie 3rd.

Click here to see results

More photos to come.