Edinburgh Athletic Club

Scottish Women’s League – 19 June 2011, Meadowbank

 EAC comfortably won the 3^rd SWAL match by almost 100 points:

1.         Edinburgh                   530
2.         Tayside & Fife            437
3.         Forth Valley                397
4.         Aberdeen                    325
4.         Team West                  325
6.         Pitreavie                      317
7.         Lothian                        245
8.         VP Glasgow                209

Full results available on http://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=50143

Scottish Young Athletes League, Grangemouth, 26th June 2011
After 3 convincing wins in the Central 1^st Division of the Young Athletes League, Edinburgh AC have easily qualified for the Scottish final which takes place on Saturday 23 July at Scotstoun.

results below:

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 England U20/23 Championships – Bedford 25/26 July

A number of Edinburgh athletes headed south at the weekend for the England U20/23 Championships and European Trials in Bedford. Weather on the Saturday was good – warm with the wind behind the sprinters; on Sunday the wind had switched round and the temperature soared to 31 degrees.

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The weekend will be stretched to last thursday to include the Portobello 4 mile race and we will start with that, Bryan Mackie didn’t quite keep up his recent record but still ran very well for 2nd place  and many others posted PB’s      (more…)

The Ythan Challenge is a becoming a bit of an annual pilgrimage up north every June and is one of those races you should try at least once in your life. It’s essentially a 11-12k off-road race crossed with a very muddy obstacle course. It appeared on the Adventure Show a few years back and Dermot and I have been going along ever since. I’ve managed a few second places but had never won it so I intended to go up and do my best to rectify that this year! (more…)

RED MOSS REVOLUTION
 
You may have missed this one - well most of you did – but after several days rain the boggy bit over Hare Hill was nicely boggy, with the mire at the northern end in the col between Hare Law and Black Hill in excellent condition.  

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Scottish Young Athletes League, Grangemouth Sunday 26th June 2011
The timetable for the SYAL meeting can be downloaded here:
SYAL timetable 26-06-11

We have now launched this year’s Scottish Gas 5k and 10k races and online entries together with further race information are now available from  Entry Central  The races are on Sunday 7th August and we have a slightly earlier start time for both races this year, which is 10.00am.  The entry fee is £13 for affiliated club runners and £15 for unaffiliated runners. There will be a team prize in the 10k event for both Male and Female Teams, with the first three runners home from each club counting. There will be a ’tech’ fabric t-shirt for all finishers.   (more…)

The UK’s  top female athletes are heading for Edinburgh next weekend (2nd July) as Edinburgh Athletic Club host Match 2 of the UK Women’s League, Pemier Division at Meadowbank.  >>MORE

This weekend there will be no Saturday morning session, the alternatives are the Park Run or Melrose Hill Race. Sunday morning at 9.00am will be the usual long run from Craiglockhart Tennis Centre, meet in the top car park before heading out on paths and trails to Balerno and beyond with run distances from 12-16 miles. Good luck to anyone racing at the Scottish 1/2 Marathon at Dunfermline and other race options which include Glenrothes 10k, Lairig Ghru, and the Ythan Challenge (which we may get a race report from next week).