The first East District Cross Country League race took place last Saturday at Stirling University Campus. A beautiful afternoon and a great location for the race with the Wallace monument in the background.
It was fantastic to see so many Lasswade athletes taking part, 21 in total. Let's hope that we can maintain and build on these numbers for the coming league races.
We did lack numbers in the youngest age group with only one in the under 11 race, Ross McKenzie, who ran well to finish 21st.
In the under 13 boys race we had four runners Kyle McKenzie (21st), Ronan Clelland (24th), Fraser Cousin (35th) and Matthew Smith (36th). Rachel Hutchison (15th) was the sole Lasswade athlete in the under 13 girls race.
The under 15 Lasswade boys were led home by Ross Henderson (9th) followed by Jamie Cousin (13th) Iain Lawson (16th) and Calum Clark (24th). The boys were our only team to place on the day finishing 3rd team – great effort boys !! Amy Frankland (12th) brought the under 15 girls home with Sally Redpath (39th).
In the mens race we had nine athletes competing. I think this is the most that I have ever seen turn out for a Lasswade mens team at a cross country event and it was great to see you all there ! Our men were led home by our youngest man Ross Matheson who finished 2nd overall (1st Junior), Niall Sheehan (10th), Barney Phillips (14th), our late starter Colin Menzies (53rd), Ben Mitchell (55th), Andrew Matheson (66th), Richard Connor (71st), Ross Finlayson (84th) and Zander Lyon (93rd). The mens team finished fourth overall which was a great effort.
Lasswade finished fourth team overall for the day which is a great result and a credit to everyone who took part. Well done to you all.
For full results please click here.
Athletes do not have to be selected for these league races and we would encourage as many athletes as possible to participate. As you can see from the results there were a few age groups where we had incomplete teams so if you would like to compete then please speak to one of the coaches at training on Monday or Thursday as you would be a welcome addition to the team.
Please make a date in your diaries for Broxburn on 20/11/2010 and let's see if we can improve from fourth overall.
