Weekend Round Up

Well that was a crazy weekend - all go in the Hamilton shop on Saturday (people are Christmas shopping already - can you believe it?) then I managed to sneak away in the afternoon to run in the Alan Scallie Road Relays at Baillieston. I haven't taken part in this race for a couple of years but managed to find time for it this year. The course for this 4.8 miler has always been the same - crossing over multiple road junction, dodging Saturday shoppers & getting spat on & abused by the local neds. This year though, thanks to the Polis being on crowd control elsewhere, the route was moved to what turned out to be a much more popular route - quiet, traffic (& ned) free. I ran the 4th 'Glory' Leg and felt pretty good. Still a bit out of practice at running at speed but knocked out just shy of 5 miles in 29 mins. Starting to feel nippy again!
Calderglen Harriers had a good turnout & won both 1st & 3rd Vets teams.

Being the Club floozies that we are, we headed off on Saturday evening for the East Kilbride Road Club Annual Curry Night at Mother India up the West End. A cracking curry & a good laugh. A bit of a late night (by my recent standards) & had to go fairly easy on the wine as I was up early on Sunday morning for the ATHelite sponsored Strathaven 10k.
The weather was appauling - tipping it down with rain. This didn't really affect me as we had a stall inside the school where it was warm & dry, but there were a lot of very soggy runners queueing desparately for soup & hot drinks at the end. A great turnout despite the conditions for this hugely popular & well organised race.
We had a great turnout from the ATHelite group & some serious PB's for almost everyone. Results to follow!