The Grangemouth Round the Houses 10K Road Race always attracts a large entry and this year over 600 runners, including several local athletes, took part, with Kilbarchan Athletic Club athletes performing well.
The race was also the Scottish Universities 10K Championship and Edinburgh student Euan Gillham, had a fine run to finish 2nd overall and taking the Universities title, time 31 minutes 4 seconds . Gemma Rankin was also in good form, finishing 2nd in the women’s event, time 35.58 and good support from Catherine Stewart and Holly Thompson, gave the local club a top 3 team finish. Holly was also 2nd under 20 girl.
At the Open Graded Meeting at Ayr, there were winning performances in the 800m, by Lewis Hannigan and by Louise Hastie, in their under 15 age group 800m races.
Arthur Smith