Glamis Castle East District XC Relays 

Mixing it up from last years course at Glamis, this year we had what can only be described as complete contrasting conditions making it a much tougher course than last year. However this did not affect our glorious Haries as they took to the fine Kingdom grass on Saturday. 

We had many strong performances and most notably was the win from our women’s A team, who made a very strong team comprised of Amy Frankland, Holly Page and Steph Pennycook. Where Fresher Holly showed the oldies how it’s done getting the second fastest time of the day but Steph and Amy still putting in very strong performances for the team with Steph securing the 3rd fastest time of the day only 5 seconds behind Holly.

Just missing out on a podium position were our women’s B Team who missed out on 3rd by just 10 seconds. Securing 4th position in the first of the cross country meets. Most notable in the B team was Constance Nankivell who was one of the 5 people who managed to break 15 minutes over the 4k course along with Holly and Steph. Whilst Hannah Morrison and Zoe Pflug rounded off the B team with two good performances as well. 

We had good running from the rest of our girls all the way through to our E team, even a return of our “Harie of the Week” Maddy Austin, who has got that Haries vest back on and back racing through the muddy fields (interview to come soon… I’m already a week behind…) 

Onto the Men’s performances

The Men’s A team went out strong on the First Leg with Cameron Young leading out the Hounds at the start setting a strong pace for the team and bringing the guys in 2nd place to start with the rest to follow. Next to go was Oskar Fraser-Krauss (OFK – I’ve only just learnt this after his impressive Beer Mile post XC) who after a strong track season, brought the bois back in 2nd maintaining Cameron’s strong performance. When after, our real star of the show Alex Carcas did a cracking 12:55 over the 4km course (which got him 6th fastest time of the day!)(apparently putting the rumours to rest that Jack Leitch is now better than him???). Jack Leitch then rounded off the A team cruising through the finish line to an overall time of 53:02. Good work guys (Hounds?)!

Elsewhere in the Men’s field there was some real notable performances, with Captain Gregor Malcolm, after his summer of spending time in the hills (#bigbusinessbigbucks) put in a good effort storming his way through the 4km course in 13:31. With Gregor’s B team getting 8th overall. We also had fresher(?!?!) Pat G(ierjatowicz) (we’ll stick to G…) who swapped his brown vest and for a revived Green Haries vest for our C team along with Alex Bell all the way from the land of IOM who put in a notable performance for his team! Coming out of the depths of EUOC Alasdair Pedley didn’t need a thumb compass or a map for this one, overtaking Ewan Taylor from PH Racing Club on his way around the course, hoping for many more smashing XC performances throughout the year! [we are a proud Mandem Pedley xx]. With Pedley’s C team coming in a respectable 14th Place.

We also had some strong debut runs from Fraser Roach, Paul Frohn and Joe Battershill

Another comeback of the day was Andrew Lawler (ex. GB Hill Runner) who after getting surgery this year is back running! Nice to see you back Lawler, even if you didn’t manage to hold your Beer Mile Title…

To look at the full results from Saturday please go tot he Scottish Athletics website to download the results;

Pentland Skyline

On Sunday it also saw many Haries taking to the local hills to compete in the Pentland Skyline race. The demanding course which saw 8 Haries competing at, covers 16 miles and over 6200 ft of ascent. 

From the live streams I have seen provided by our wonderful live hosts Alex Carcas and Gregor Malcom. Appeared to show a strong EUOC train as they all seemed to push each other through the course with Sasha leading the train of Orienteers, and only just missing out on that podium position! I have attached the Results for the Haries below for you to have a look at. 

Thanks to Carnethy Hill Running Club for Results

Also a little shoutout to Mathew Dailey who despite not wearing Haries colours… Had a good XC race on the Saturday and got a 10k PB on Sunday! #Machine

And thanks to Neil Renton for his Photos at the XC