Saturday 29th November saw the running of the Dunbartonshire AAA Cross Country Championships at Balloch Park, Balloch The, now familiar, venue at Balloch Park, proved a testing challenge with a mixture of undulating terrain.
The weather overhead was absolutely ideal for cross country running although some parts of the course were quite heavy following the rainfall during the week.
In the Seniors Mens Race Michael Miller had a great run, Michael led the field through the opening lap then drifted back to third place although he was well in touch until the final lap. He produced a strong final lap and finished 3rd overall in the Seniors Race, a very good performance.
In the Senior Womens Race Jade Milne had another fine performance and despite losing the sole of her shoe put in a great effort to finish 8th overall in a time of 40min 50secs.
In the M40 Mens Race Iain Robertson finished 4th Overall in a time of 36min 49secs with Michael Diver running 48min 7secs in the M50 category,
Congratulations also to Daniel Docherty Under 20 (44min 34) and Ruaraidh King (48min 7secs) finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively in their category.
The club had a very good turnout in the Under 11 age group with 13 competitors and, once again, we had medal winners.
Ben Currie had a terrific in the Under 11’s race, chasing the leader all the way to line to finish 2nd with a time of 6min 53 secs. He had great back up from Riley O’Hare 7min 26 secs and Archie McIntosh 7min 52 secs and these three finished 3rd Team.
There were also very good runs from Fionnbharr Donoghue (8min 8secs), Leo Burnett (8min 11secs), Fionn Mallon, who literally came straight off the football park to run, (8min 28secs), Cameron Moore (8min 57secs), Rory McKinnon (9mins 5secs), Euan Campbell ((mins 20secs) and Ross Duggan (9mins 21 secs).
In the Under 11 girls race Mirren Grieves kept up her very good form with a great run finishing 2nd overall in a time of 7mins 42secs. Mirren was backed up very well by Abigail Cross (8min 38secs) and a very gutsy run by young Emma Currie (11.08secs).
It should be said that some of our youngsters were a wee bit under the weather with the ‘cold bug’ that is doing the rounds so well done to all of them.
Well done to all our athletes.
A few pictures from the race – apologies if I didn’t get everybody.
