Good To See ,,,,

It was really good to see the range of countries where folk have been checking out the Harriers website. There are also people who go to the www.clydesdaleharriers.org.uk website and I get emails about club history from some of them. On my first ever run in the Edinburgh to Glasgow I was on the third stage and a bus - from what club I know not - slowed down and a guy hanging out the door shouted "Come on Clydesdale!" When I had a good run on a stage of the E-G, Jim Logan of VPAAC writing in the 'Athletics Weekly' spoke of "Brian McAusland, of that club of ancient lineage Clydesdale Harriers ...."
The point is that the club is well known and respected all over Scotland and even further afield. A couple of years ago when we had only the one club in the Allan Scally Relays, a chap from Dundee Hawkhill asked me where all the Clydesdale guys were! We are not a club like some of those that have sprung up recently and which will only last as long as the current members can be bothered.
We are Clydesdale Harriers.
We have lasted as long as we have because it has been a club that cares about its members. The road and country runners have cared about the hill and track men; the men have cared about the women (nothing new!) and the Committee had shown a duty of care to the entire club. When we stop behaving as one club and start acting as though we were a group of autonomous sections our days are numbered.

Fortunately that day seems far off and the signs of progress are there again in the younger members and the care that the coaches are taking to make sure that they have a career in athletics and not a year in athletics. The eyes of the world are on us and the committee has a tremendous burden in developing the club in the interests of all its members. Remember, we are Clydesdale Harriers!