{"id":3832,"date":"2014-01-22T21:47:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2014-01-22T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T21:47:06","slug":"east-district-cross-country-league-broxburn-18012014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/cross-country\/east-district-cross-country-league-broxburn-18012014\/","title":{"rendered":"East District Cross Country League &#8211; Broxburn 18\/01\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final East District Cross Country League match of this winter season took place at Broxburn on Saturday 18 January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The league covers all age groups from Under 11 boys and girls through to senior men and women and Lasswade had athletes competing in all age groups with the exception of under 11 girls.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">In the under 11 boys race we had seven athletes competing with Kurt Robertson leading the team home in 6th place overall. \u00a0The others competing were Lois Grahame (20th) Cameron Dickson (35th), Eoin Morton (38th), Christopher Statham (44th), Ethan Gordon (59th) and Clark Lennie (64th).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next race \u00a0was the under 13 girls and with our Inter District winner Sarah Tait unwell it was left to Caroline McKinlay to represent the Lasswade girls. Caroline ran a strong race to finish 19th overall.\u00a0Lasswade&#8217;s Magnus Tait led the way in the under 13 boys race with another fine win. It completed a clean sweep of three league wins this season for Magnus. He was followed by team mates Rory Ferguson (17th) and Lawrie Wilson (46th).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3840 aligncenter\" alt=\"DSC_0249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0249-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The under 15\/17 girls was the next race and we had two runners, \u00a0Lauren Dickson with another fine performance in 5th place followed by team mate Lauren Wilkie who finished strongly in 35th. \u00a0In the under 15 boys race we had three runners led \u00a0home by Matthew Smith (26th) followed closely by team mate Jamie Darling (28th) and Thomas Snodgrass (38th).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0282.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3845 alignleft\" alt=\"DSC_0282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0282-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0278.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3844 aligncenter\" alt=\"DSC_0278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0278-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Kyle McKenzie was the sole Lasswade runner in the under 17 men, he had a solid run to finish in 21st place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s race we had three athletes competing and Keira Murray with a strong run in 5th pace led the team home, next in was Amy Frankland with a fine run finishing 15th overall and 2nd under 20, Cathy Dickson ran well to bring the team home, finishing in 71st place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3842 aligncenter\" alt=\"DSC_0264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0264-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The final race of the day was the men \u00a0with the biggest field and 255 finishers. There were seven Lasswade athletes competing with Peter Avent the first Lasswade runner home (28th), next in with a strong run was Martin Gore (42nd) followed by John Murray back from a recent injury (74th), Scott Dickson running with a sore knee was next to finish (164th) then came Doug McDonald (179th) \u00a0closely followed by \u00a0Phil Parr-Burnham (196th) with Derek Wilkie the final Lasswade athlete (232nd).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well done to everyone who turned out and competed for the club on Saturday. Thanks to you all and also to the parents\/supporters that came along on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Final Team Finishing Positions in the League were as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Under 13 Boys &#8211; 4th Team<br \/>\nWomen &#8211; 7th Team<br \/>\nMen &#8211; 8th Team<\/p>\n<p>For full results please click<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/calendar\/events\/16715-16088-east-district-cc-league-3#results\"> here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final East District Cross Country League match of this winter season took place at Broxburn on Saturday 18 January 2014. The league covers all age groups from Under 11 boys and girls through to senior men and women and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/cross-country\/east-district-cross-country-league-broxburn-18012014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cross-country"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lasswade-ac.org.uk\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}