Doireann Hughes won the 2023Edinburgh Athletic Club Road Race Grand Prix. “A few words” with Doireann for the local paper turned into a full-blown interview…

Peter R.W. Hoffman was one of the country’s fastest ever 400m/800m runners who had a very short career at the top of the sport in Scotland.

Scotland’s Allister Hutton was a nearly man until he came through thick mist and rain like a Highland warrior from a damp Scottish moor, to win the 10th London marathon. Leading from 14 miles, the 35 year old pushed his body to the limit, to win the world’s greatest city marathon.

Ian Horsburgh was Scottish 200 metres Champion in 2005 having come through the age-groups with an under 17 400m title in 1994 and Indoor titles at U17 400m in the same year and U20 200m in 1996.

By any standards Tom Hanlon was a phenomenal athlete, starting with the Euro Junior Championships in 1985, he became a Scottish and British Internationalist, Olympic athlete, European Championships athlete, World Championship athlete twice, twice a Commonwealth Games representative plus World cross-country runner as a Junior and a GB road runner.

Paul Forbes is a name not well known among the young athletes and their coaches of the twenty first century – but it really should be. Look at the Scottish all-time rankings for his best distance, the 800m: