This years Club AGM will be taking place on Wednesday 21st March, 7pm at Newbattle Golf Club. All club members, supporters and families are encouraged to come along.
This years AGM will also include a number of medal presentations for athlete performances. Medals will be presented for the Club Championships and Cross Country Season. It would be great to have as many medal winners as possible attending.
U13 Boys: Cameron Chambers, Alastair Scott, Ross Wolfenden/Alec Miller
U15 Girls: Abby McGlone
U15 Boys: Harry Henriksen
U17 Women: Sarah Tait
U17 Men: Christian Graham, Euan Hood, Daniel Kelly
Women: Lauren Dickson, Keira Murray
Men: Jamie Darling, Scott Thomson
Masters Men: Andrew McGlone, David Scott, Scott Dickson
Anyone wishing to add items to the agenda for the evening can do so by emailing at lasswadeathletics@gmail.com, or by approaching one of the coaches at training.
By popular demand the new Lasswade Training Vests are available to order.
The training vests come in 9 different colours with a Lasswade logo printed on the back and your name printed below it.
Note:- these are not Lasswade competition colours and the TRAINING VESTS CANNOT BE USED TO COMPETE IN – they are for personalising your training experience.
Available in a full range of kids, ladies and men’s sizes and priced at £13.00 Kids and £14.00 for adults you can choose from white, black, red, orange, green, yellow, royal blue, sapphire blue, purple (and pink only available in ladies sizes 8,10,12,14).
Samples of the vest sizes and colours will be available to try on at training on Monday and Thursday next week. A bulk one off order will then be placed on Thursday 22nd March.
Anyone wanting to try the vest see Cathy Dickson inside the High School.
The inter counties cross country championships take place next weekend in Loughborough and five Lasswade Athletes have been selected for the East of Scotland team.
They are as follows:
Harry Henriksen (U15)
Sarah Tait (U17)
Christian Graham (U17)
Magnus Tait (U17)
Lauren Dickson (U20)
Lasswade AC endurance coach Linda Smith will be travelling with the team as one of the Team Managers.
Congratulations to all of the athletes and good luck from all at Lasswade AC.
Unfortunately, after a drive through of the route this morning, it has been decided that there is no alternative other than to postpone this Sundays Road Race.
After making the necessary arrangements for this weekends postponement, we will start looking at alternative dates to run the race. Entrants will be contacted and kept up to date. Additional updates will be available on our Facebook page and website.
The National Cross Country Championships were once again held at Callender Park in Falkirk. Callendar Park has hosted the National cross country for a number of years now and it has always been a fantastic event regardless of the weather. However, I understand this is the last year at this location and that this event will be at a new venue next year.
The first race of the day were the under 13 girls and the conditions for running were almost perfect as the race got underway. Lasswade had three athletes in this race, Olivia Meikle, Skye Foster and Fiona Eades. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the chip timing so the results for the under 13 girls are incomplete.
In the under 13 boys Lasswade had five athletes, Cameron Chambers led the boys home finishing 100th, closely followed by team mate Alasdair Brown 101st, Matthew Cartledge 106th, Alistair Scott 121st and Alec Miller 158th.
Abby McGlone was the solo Lasswade girl in the under 15 girls race but had a solid run to finish in 59th position.
Harry Henriksen was also flying solo in the under 15 boys race. Harry got off to a bad start, but worked his way through the field and was in fourth spot going into the final run in to the finish. Unfortunately he was just outsprinted but finished a very impressive 6th.
Sarah Tait was yet another solo runner in the u17 womens race. Sarah has had a great season gradually building back into cross country running and improving with each race. Sarah had another strong race to finish inside the top 10 in 7th.
In the under 17 men we had four athletes and thought we had an outside chance of a team medal as well as potential individual medalists. Christian Graham one of the pre-race favorites had a difficult week with a foot injury and was a doubtful starter. However with his foot taped up he felt a bit better and wanted to race. Christian ran well and was up setting the pace early in the race, unfortunately I think the stress of his foot took it’s toll, Christian was unable to go with Cameron Wright of Kilbarchan and a gap began to open. Christian held on for 2nd to cement a solid season over the cross country. Team mate Magnus Tait was also having a good run a little further back in 7th place, with Euan Hood satisfied with his 37th after having been down with a cold and Daniel Kelly completing the team in 69th. We finished 6th team with only three points between us and 4th and 12 points to 3rd!
Christian Graham leads the U17 men’s race
The theme of solo athletes continued with Lauren Dickson in the u20 women. Lauren has had a few disappointing results in races this season so it was great to see her continue to improve and have a strong run to finish in 7th place. Jamie darling has been improving this season too so it was interesting to see how he ran in the under 20 men’s race. Jamie ran well to finish in the middle of the field in 44th position.
Lauren Dickson leading the pack !
The final race of the day was the senior men and it had the biggest field of the day. We had five athletes in this race. It was great to see Ross Matheson make the trip up from London to race and have a strong run finishing 12th. He was followed home by team mate Scott Thomson who also had a good run finishing inside the top 30 in 28th position. Scott Dickson led home our masters finishing in 412th followed by Dave Scott 440th and Stephen Brown 463rd.
Ross Matheson – a good run to finish 12th
Congratulations to everyone on their performances.
Due to the weather there will be no training sessions this Thursday, 1st March.
Lasswade 10 Road Race: Sun 4th March
Given the adverse weather conditions today, and forecast for tomorrow, we will be keeping a close eye on the road race course over the coming days. While we are all hoping that the race will be able to go ahead as planned, the health and safety of runners is our main priority. As such a decision will be made around lunchtime on Friday as to whether the race will go ahead. This decision will be made available here on the website, as well as being posted on the clubs facebook page.
Scottish Schools Cross Country
This Saturday’s Scottish Schools Cross Country, at Hopetoun House Estate has been postponed for obvious reasons. A replacement date is being sought and will be given as soon as it is confirmed. Updates will be posted on the Scottish School Website when available: SSAA website
Provisional results are now in from the final Indoor League match, with Lasswade getting three teams through to next months finals. After returning to the league last season, this year has been another success, with athletes turning out in numbers and producing fine performances across the board against really strong competition.
Qualifiers for the finals:
U13 Girls Team: Out of 26 teams competing in the three afternoon sessions, the Lasswade U13 Girls Team finished in overall first place, ahead of North Ayr and Edinburgh. The line up for the final will be:
U17 Womens Team: Out of 24 teams competing in the three afternoon sessions, the Lasswade U17 Women matched the U13s with another overall first place, ahead of Edinburgh AC and Dundee Hawkhill. Lineup for the final will be:
U20 Mens Team: Out of 11 teams competing the Lasswade U20 Mens team finished in overall second spot, behind Dundee Hawkhill. Also qualifying from the afternoon sessions was Kilbarchan. Lineup for the final will be:
U20 Men: Murray Blair, William Darling, Harry McLean, Jamie English, Scott Hutchon, Liam McLune, Magnus Tait
Outside of the qualifiers it was another case of so near so far for the boys U13 team. After finishing one place out of qualifying last year the boys again ended the three matches in fourth spot. Fantastic performances throughout and given the competition it was a great effort. Also just missing out on qualifying was the Women’s U20 Team, also finishing in 4th. It was a case of having the quality but being short of numbers this time round.
Having competed in the first match with only one athlete, Alastair Scott, the Under 15 Boys were never going to qualify. They did see a dramatic improvement match on match though. Match one the team finished 20th, match 2 was 8th and the final match saw them up in 5th.
The Under 15 Girls produced a fantastic performance in Match 1, finishing the day in first spot, showing the talent in the team. Despite some great individual performances in the team, they were not able to hold onto the qualifying spot and finished in 6th. The U17 Boys team struggled throughout the competition to get anywhere near a full team out. Again there were a number of fine individual performances, but empty events throughout the three matches left the team down in 15th.
The Under 11s competition was a slightly different format and again we did not always cover the events. However it was great to see some of the younger, and newer, athletes competing. Competing over the three matches were Abbie Foster, Eloise Scott, Morven Brown, Callan Innes, Harry Miller and Ben Harley.
PLEASE NOTE THESE RESULTS HAVE STILL TO BE FULLY VERIFIED, SO SOME SLIGHT CHANGES MAY BE MADE. THE EAGLE EYED AMONG YOU MAY NOTICE A FEW ERRORS OF ADDITION IN THE FINAL EVENTS PTS TOTALS. HOWEVER NONE OF THIS WILL AFFECT QUALIFICATION.
