Gus Campbell: Fund Raiser for Charity
Gus was quite simply the best athletics sponsorship money raiser that Clydebank has had in my time in the sport. ...
Possible Invitees?
The last post suggested a 140th Celebration Dinner: not an unreasonable suggestion and a club of our vintage and significance in Scottish...
Milestone Celebrations
Clydesdale Harriers was founded on 4th May, 1885. There are many theories how it came about but it was the first specialist athletics...
The Club Archive
I have spent some time recently adding items to the club archive, most of which is kept in the Dumbarton Library. There are items such...
Track Training in Summer: Warm Up and Relays
There are some things that all track runners should know when planning their season and the individual sessions contained in it. If we...
Club Training Bases – Mountblow and Whitecrook
RIBA Architects Magazine visualisation of the Pavilion at Mount Blow; Very like what it was in the 50’s and 60’s The Clydebank Press...
Mountblow Recreation Ground
The photograph above is of a bunch of Harriers at Mountblow immediately after the War and the image is one of men happy that the War...
Women Hill Runners – new book
The club has had many excellent hill runners like the Shields twins, international runners like Brian Potts and Ian Murphy and other top class...
Looking Ahead
They say that coaches always work backwards – ie decide on the principal fixture that year and then come back four or five or six weeks for...
This and That
First off, sorry for the delay since the last post but I’ve been busy writing profiles of Clydesdale Harriers who were in the armed services...
New Book
Jenni Falconer who grew up in Bishopbriggs and in Milngavie was the subject of an interesting article in the ‘Herald magazine last Saturday...