Hi Everyone,
There have been a few people asking Linda about the timing of events for the Club Championships tomorrow. I have been advised that everything is the same as last year and therefore attach a link to last years timetable.
Apologies that this has been posted so late.
Hi All,
I have been asked over the last couple of training nights if i could put up a list of cross country dates and venues, Listed below should help out, Please scroll down to get all dates
CROSS COUNTRY NATIONAL EVENTS:
Nat CC Relays: Saturday 26 October (Cumbernauld)
Nat 4K Champs: Sunday 10 November (Bellahouston Park, Glasgow)
Great Edinburgh CC (Inc Inter District): Saturday 11 January 2014 (Holyrood Park)
Nat Masters CC Champs: Saturday 1 February 2014 (Hawick)
Nat CC Champs: Saturday 22 February 2014 (Falkirk)
Nat Age Group Road Champs: Sunday 16 March 2014 (Riccarton)
Nat 6/4 Stage Road Relays: Sunday 30 March 2014 (Livingston)
CROSS COUNTRY DISTRICT & LEAGUE EVENTS:
East CC Relays: Sunday 13th October (Livingston)
East CC Champs: Saturday 7th December (Dundee)
East XC League: Saturday 19th October (Stirling Uni)
East XC League: Saturday 23rd November (Alloa)
East XC League: Saturday 18th January 2014 (Broxburn)
The club will be holding its annual Disco & Presentation night at Dalkeith Miners’ Club on Friday 11th October.
The trophies from the Club Championships and other awards will be handed out at this evening.
Tickets, priced £4, will be on sale at the Club Championships on Sunday, and also at club training nights from John Brash, Margaret Benham, Linda Smith and Gordon Robertson.
All athletes, friends and family are welcome.
Dear Parents,
As with every club championship we are looking for your help now, Donations of filled rolls, homebaking, Raffle and tombola prizes, The filled rolls and baking are sold as part of our fundraising for the club, Tea and coffee will also be sold on the day.
Donations for the Tombola and Raffle can be brought along to any training night and handed to myself, Margaret Benham or Linda Smith with the food item to be brought on the day of the Championship.
Anyone willing to help on the day, please let me Ruth Szymanski know as soon as possible and a rota will be created, you will not miss out on your athletes performance
Please join us in what is always a fun filled day.
Ruth Szymanski
elkasaruma@hotmail.co.uk
Lasswade athlete Ross Matheson has just moved to the USA to study at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Ross will hopefully be posting regularly on our website to let us know how things are going in the states so please remember to check it out for updates. Ross is also on twitter https://twitter.com/MathesonRoss for those of you who use twitter.
In the meantime David Hand contacted Ross to see how he was settling in and Ross sent the following reply.
Arrived safely and settling in well. The weather is good and I seem to be coping with the altitude pretty well. I have only been doing easy runs this week to try to acclimatise, I will do my first session next week.
Congratulations to the men’s team on the result in Aberdeen. That’s an achievement in itself to stay in division 1, hopefully with a stronger team next year we’ll see us moving into the top spots overall for the league.
I saw Guy’s result which is great. Hopefully with consistent injury free training me and Greg can join him in the run up to the games.
It was good hearing from you.
Speak soon,
Ross
Guy Learmonth ran a Commonwealth Games standard time in Antwerp on Saturday evening when he finished in a time of 1:47.41 for the 800m.
That’s just inside the 1:47.50 required, and Guy will now be looking to get under that mark again – either in the remainder of this season or indoors, when one qualifying standard is allowed as per the policy.
‘It has been tough this year with a few obstacles but I’m getting into better form now,’ said the Lasswade AC athlete.
‘I feel I am one step closer to Hamdpden now with that time under my belt and it is a case of on to the next race.’
Rachel Robertson and Ellen Kristoffersen won Scottish U18 titles at the National Championships at Aberdeen Sports Village on Saturday.
Rachel took the Women’s Long Jump gold with a jump of 5.51m, before finishing runner up in the triple jump (11.10m).
Ellen won the U18 Women’s High Jump (1.60m), and also came 4th in the Long Jump (5.36m).
Rowan Marr made the final of the Men’s U18 800m, finishing 7th (2:02.90).
In Sunday’s U20 events, Robert Ferguson became Men’s Scottish High jump Champion (1.98m), Ellen Kristoffersen was second in the Women’s Long Jump (5.13m), and Jordan Charters 3rd in the Men’s Long Jump (6.38m), and 2nd in the triple jump (12.37m).
Also in the Men’s U20, Charlie Carstairs finished 4th in the 400m final in a time of 52.26s.
In the U16 Boys’ age group Henry Clarkson collected bronze in the Triple Jump (11.40m), and was 9th in the Long Jump (5.26m), and Cameron Steven 6th in the 400m final (57.62s), and 4th in his 800m heat (2:14.51).
Well done to all athletes who competed over the two days.
Greg Louden came up with a good performance in the 400m at the Welsh International at Cardiff on Wednesday, finishing just one hundredth of a second outside his PB with 47.57s for second place.
