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The Local Athletics Partnership Championships are on Sunday at Linwood. They are great frun and the club always does really well. This year we have 40 athletes entered in a total of well over 100 events (like three each for some, four for others and one or two for the Seniors). Rumour has it that Gerry Montgomery is making his track debut at the meeting in the 3000 metres race. If any of the senior club members who are not competing want to go and watch then they will be welcome and if they are prepared to help Phil out with the organisation of the team (eg get an athlete to an event in time!) they will be even more welcome!

James Austin was on the phone last night: he has had an injury that has set his training back a bit but will be out at the County Relays in October. He had an unfortunate week last week with two car mishaps. On Monday he was driving his friend's car when the timing belt broke and caused all sorts of damage. there are cheap repairs and expensive repairs for cars: this was a very expensive one. Then on Friday he was coming over the Kingston Bridge in his own car when the car behind ran into him. Plenty of witnesses and the other driver admitted culpability but his car was a write off all the same.

The Scottish Athletics AGM is on tomorrow and the club mandate is being carried by Colin Shields. It is quite important that we are represented as there are several quite important items up for discussion - the Six Year Plan for a start - and we know that Colin will not give the executive an easy ride!

And finally, there will be a final collection of Harriers brief lives following the last three collections. This one will be available from October and includes people that I was told I should have included in previous books (Bobby Boyd, Jack Boyd, John Morgan, etc), some that came to my attention as maybe coming into that category - the Three Amigos get ten or eleven pages to themselves for instance and after being hassled - and I DO mean hassled - by Allan Faulds, Doug Gemmell, Ian Leggett, Cliff Brown and Phil Dolan, I have a bit about myself. Let me know if you are interested.