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| Making a Splash at Strathclyde |
With the Scottish Rowing Regatta attracting its largest entry in recent years, Strathclyde
Park was a busy place on Saturday morning and it wasn't just the
rowing that was busy as the morning sunshine helped to entice an
impressive 177 runners to the 157th Strathclyde parkrun.
It wasn't just quantity though but quality too with two of the
countries most promising young athletes participating in the weekly,
free 5k event. Calum Hawkins, whose brother Derek was the first UK
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| Callum Hawkins |
athlete in the London Marathon, placed first in a time of 15:32.
This was the 20 year old, Kilbarchan runners fourth outing at the
Motherwell event and his first race of the year, after knee surgery.
Callum is hoping to stay clear of injury and to reduce his 10k PB
from 31.00 mins to under the 29.00min required to qualify for the
Glasgow
Commonwealth Games.
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| Sarah Inglis |
In the women's race, Sarah Inglis
sprinted home in a time of 17:45 to take Gold. The Lothian triplet,
who holds the women's course records at both the Falkirk and
Edinburgh parkruns, time was the fourth fastest run on the course by
a female. The Falkirk 21year old, who last year qualified as a PE
teacher, will be heading to Canada in July to join the Trinity
Western University Spartans for the 2013-14 campaign. Sarah said “I
am excited about the opportunity to live, study and train in British
Columbia and at TWU. I am looking forward to developing as an athlete
through the coaching and athletic environment which TWU offers.”
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| William Reid 160 not out |
Sarah was one of 25 first timers,
whilst at the other end of the scale, Kirkintilloch Olympian William
Reid clocked up his 160th parkrun!
In the men's race Callum was followed
home by Inverclydes Kenny O'Neil (16:34) and David Bellfield of
Pitreavie (17:18), with Central AC's Cartiona Buchanan earning Silver
in the women's race with a time of 18:58 and unattached Annie Marie
McGregor's time of 21:34 being good enough to earn her third place
and a new PB.
The prize for the best age graded
performance goes to David Thom, the Ron Hill Cambuslang Harrier
celebrated his recent 53rd birthday by placing 4th
overall in a time of 17:22 a WAVA of some 87.04%.
For my own part, I was just glad to be
back with the Scottish Running Community, although I wasn't running,
it was still good to meet up with some old friends and to make some
new ones too
Here are a few photos that I took on the day. All of them are
here and the Full Results are
here.
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| Ian Devoy |
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| David Fairweather |
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| Amina Abdel-Khaliq contemplates her first parkrun |
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| Ally Robb |
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