The National Short Course Cross Country Championships took place at Renfrew this year.
This was a new venue for the event having been at Bellahouston park in previous years. The weather was sunny and dry, however there was quite a strong cold wind to challenge the runners over the flat and open course.
A total of 15 athletes from Lasswade entered for this event with 12 athletes competing on the day.
In the under 15 girls we had two athletes competing. Abby McGlone who has been consistently improving was our first finisher in 47th place followed by team mate Lauren Meikle in 84th place.
The highlight of the day for us was the under 17 womens race where Lauren Dickson ran strongly over the two lap course to finish an impressive 3rd overall picking up the bronze medal. Team mates Sarah Tait And Ailsa Innes both also had impressive runs finishing 13th and 18th respectively. This meant the girls finished 3rd team and picked up the bronze team medal. (Unfortunately Sarah is not in the picture below as she was unwell after the race).
Ailsa and Lauren with their medals!
Our under 17 men also did well with Magnus Tait our first finisher in 11th place overall, followed by team mates Christian Graham (32nd), Euan Hood (50th) to finish 7th team overall. In the same race Jamie Darling was 54th and Daniel Kelly 69th.
In the mens race we had two runners, Matthew Smith (u20) who finished 24th (77th overall) and Andrew McGlone (M45) who was 51st (218th overall).
A great event and again an opportunity for the young athletes to watch an Olympic athlete show their class as Laura Muir ran away with the women’s race. It was also good to see Freya Ross-Murray running well to finish 10th in the women’s race a few weeks after running 2.37.50 in the Chicago marathon.
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