SYAL Match

There were many excellent performances and quite a few PBs from the junior athletes on Sunday at the first young athletes meeting of the season at Wishaw. Full results detailed below:

Under 13 Girls:

Cira Devanney ran well in the 75m to be timed at 12.15 secs. Also running well in her first 1200m but had to retire with a stitch.

Rachel Campbell also had a good run in the 75m with a time of 12.43 secs and jumping 2.76m in the long jump.

Rachel Busby took unwell in the car on the way to the event so missed out running the 75m on the day. She is looking forward to getting back to her distance training in a week or two, when hopefully she has had a rest and physio treatment for the reoccurence of her heel injury.

Under 15 Girls:

Roisin McShea had an excellent run in the 1500m to finish in a time of 5:23:53 secs and a new PB and throwing 8.25m in the discus

Caitlin Dick did well in her first 800m to finish in 3:03:37, also competing in the 200m to be timed at 37.11 secs

Kirsty Alexander ran well in the 100m in 15.39 secs, in the 1500m in 6:16:69 and throwing 10.02m in the discus

Under 17 Girls:

Claire Reid ran a great 800m in 2:38:10 PB, 47.77 secs for the 300m and 3.59m in the long jump.

Under 13 boys:

Andrew Hunter had a great run to win the 100m in 13.65 secs and also the 200m to finish 2nd in 27.68 secs. Also competing in the long jump, 4.07m.

Lewis Hay ran well and keeps improving in his 800m, finishing in 3.01.57, also throwing 3.67m in the shot

Under 15 boys:

David Campbell competed well in the 80m hurdles in 16.38 secs

David Newton ran the 200m to finish in a good time of 29.2 secs and 66.38 secs for the 400m

Under 17 boys:

Tony Dolan had a great day, running 15.21 secs for the 100m, 2:29:72 for the 800m and the 1500m in 5:00:02. A couple of PBs, I think.

Lewis Wood competed in the hammer throwing 10.94m, throwing 7.52m in the shot and 17.64m in the discus

Any results missing, please give me an email.

Young Athletes League

The young athletes were out at the Scottish Young Athletes League match at Wishaw on Sunday and the team spirit was remarkable and there were several very good performances with victories on track and in the field events. Detailed results will be posted when we have them but there was no shortage of officials on the day either. Phil is doing a good job of organising the teams - that's three teams he is managing for the club right now - the Senior Men, the Central and South of Scotland League and the SYAL.

Phil will be getting some help on the coaching front soon from Donna Campbell for track and field, and Peter Halpin for track. Coaching young athletes is a difficult job - even schools are sometimes a bit confused at what they want! For instance it is usually easy to get results in the short term by simply drilling the children rather than coaching them. A local PE teacher who was heavily into athletics and a Grade Four coach used to get great results with his Under 12 teams in the Scottish Schools Cross Country championships but if you look at the programme even today his teams won less as they went up the age groups. A different local teacher in the 1980's said two things - he wanted the children to have a healthy lifestyle, enjoy athletics and keep it as a lifetime sport but he also said he wanted results NOW.

An American College coach went to ludicrous lengths to get victories for the College. He got a big squad together and then had them lap the track at 85 seconds a lap (their racing speed). When they were more than ten metres off the back of the pack, they came off the track until the next lap when they jumped back in. It was drilling in the race pace on five days out of seven. And his teams won lots of team prizes but none of the athletes had an individual career worth talking about. And of course there were injuries ................ overuse injuries ........lots of them!

But I'm away from the meeting on Sunday. It was good to see the boys and girls getting on so well together: when Andrew was hurtling towards the finish battling for first place, there were lots of team mates out shouting him on; when Roisin ran so well in the 1500 metres, it was great to see (and hear!) the support. And so it went on all afternoon.
Roll on Dumfries!!!

Whangie Whizz 2010

The Club was represented at this event, held near Carbeth on Wednesday 28th April, by Michael Diver, Hugh Laverty and
Derek Halpin.
Results:

• 41 Hugh Laverty 35:27
• 48 Derek Halpin 36:26
• 61 Michael Diver 37:21

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CLUB PLACES FOR LONDON MARATHON 2011

If you wish to put your name forward for one of the two places Clydesdale Harriers are allocated you must meet the criteria below:

-         Have applied for a place via the main ballot (LINK TO MAIN BALLOT) which opens on 4th May and have received a rejection letter

-         Have helped out at Club events, for example stewarding at the 5k or 10k

Note:    If you have a qualifying time for a “good for age” place you must apply for this individually as you will not be eligible for one of the Clubs places.