Two points about the West District

There were several interesting points about the West Districts such as the mix of older and younger members in the team and Michael's excellent performance but I want to draw attention to two in particular. The first Harrier to beat an Eritrean racing for Shettleston Harriers was on Saturday. Step forward Marina! Amleset Tewelde is a class athlete who performed well for most of last winter. Now it's up to the men to follow suit.
Second the men's teams were the first local club to finish in the men's races being 63 points ahead of Garscube and with no VP team out the question has to be "what happened to us the week before?" The Men's Vets were also first County team to finish - they were fifth with 199 points while Westerlands were seventh with 267. Helensburgh ninth with 288, Garscube eleventh with 326 and again no VP team out. so how come we were so far back the week before?

Finally I have had an email from Frank McGowan in Spain where he has set up a training camp with John Graham (the Olympic and Commonwealth marathon runner) and they have started on a website of their own at www.jfpacemakers.com where you can get some of the details of the area and their abbreviated life stories. One of the stories is that John Graham wants to join the club. John was a notoriously hard trainer and at one time he took his dog with him on training runs to give it some exercise but it had a heart attack and had to be restricted to less demanding walkies! Watch this space!