Just 2 weeks and 4 days after crossing the line 32nd in the Edinburgh Marathon, Grant Baillie has been pounding the streets again in the Clydebank 10k. He came home with more than a ‘2019 Finisher’ t-shirt, too, collecting the silverware for 1st place with a time of 32:29*. Quite some marathon warm-down! This was…
There were outstanding performances from EKAC athletes in 5 June’s Strathaven Crags race, part of Strathaven Gala Week. David Thomson was 1st male home, covering the 5.5km course (map below) in 20:36. For the stato’s, that’s a 3:48/km average. Great running. Just as impressive was Hannah Kelly finishing 4th female overall – a remarkable result…
Sunday 26 May saw gutsy Edinburgh Marathon performances by our athletes. With rain early on, puddles aplenty and an increasingly-brutal headwind after the turn, the conditions were those of a summer’s day in East Kilbride! Grant Baillie crossed the line 32nd of 7,301 finishers. He was also 4th M40. It’s a mark of the high…
Greg Kelly’s sprint season is off to a flyer. Having been selected to compete for Scotland at the Loughborough International, Greg covered 100m in 10.66 seconds. The margin to his recent PB couldn’t have been any finer – just 0.01 seconds shy of it. It shows tremendous consistency and bodes well for a cracking season.…
We’re all delighted for sprinter Greg Kelly that his hard work and consistently strong performances – including recent records – have led to this well-deserved national call-up. Full details on the Scottish Athletics website. (Opens a new window.)
We were thrilled to welcome international track superstar Laura Muir to EKAC recently, along with her coach Andy Young. It was extremely generous of them to take time out from their busy schedules. Laura answered questions on everything from preparing for races to juggled running with her veterinary studies, and from warming down to whether…
‘I had no idea they were so fast until I saw them in the school cross country!’ Half our athletes’ parents at one time or another! It’s something we often hear at this time of year. Your son or daughter competes in primary or secondary school cross country for the first time and comes in…