Bellahouston Road Runners

Go Cat!! 🤩 🐱 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Picked to represent Scotland at the Snowdon International Hill Race ⛰️✨

Congratulations to the 11 hill runners selected 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It was Midweek Magic last week starting with "Twas on the ninth of Joon"..Tuesday night in a very wet Newcastle was the annual Blaydon Race ☔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 just under 6 miles from 'the Toon' to Blaydon with a field of 4,600. Six soggy Bellas ran with Alan Moss 34:62, Jim Robinson 45:17, Henry Merriweather 48:04 & Roz Wilson 49:12 💜🤍 and in their Morpeth vests, Cat MacDonald 35:40 & Ant Jannetta 36:56 💙🤍

On Wednesday 10th, it was our annual President's Cup 5k Race at Bellahouston Park 🏆🌳 8️⃣6️⃣ Bellas ran with 1️⃣6️⃣ more helping-out and lots of supporters too, all making it such a great event 💜 well done everyone and especially our winners, Murdoch Rodgers & Laura Henderson 🏆🥳 a litter pick around the course beforehand and a good tidy before we left too 😁

On Thursday evening, it was the Kirkintilloch Olympians Kirkintilloch 10k where, continuing their brilliant form, we had great performances from Oscar Coetzee 32:09 2nd & 1st MV40🥈🥇Cathy Wood 40:03 PB 3rd FSnr 🥉🤩

On Friday evening, it was the latest Acorn Trails event at Linn Park with the Toota-Linn 8k 🌰🌳 well done to Terry Nimmo who finished 1st FV60🥇🥳 and great pics again by Kev's Running Pics 📸

And it was the very scenic Strathearn Marathon in Perthshire on Sunday 14th 🐿 a lovely, but hilly route (500m+ of ascent) starting and finishing at Comrie ⛰️ very well done to Jamie Howie 4:20:23 & Lucy MacKay 4:53:49 👏

And, as always, well done at parkrun 🌳 inc. Ross Horgan 1st at Cuningar🥇🥳 Sarah McSharry 3rd, 1st lady at Palacerigg🥇🥳 Paul McNairn 2nd & Rebecca Croney 3rd at Elder🥈🥉Hannah Berry 2nd lady at Portobello🥈Michael Rice & Conan McCreadie 5k PBs at St Andrews (18:10) & Linwood (19:24) respectively 🤩

Good luck to our members racing this week at the Cort-ma Law Hill Race ⛰️ Bellahouston Harriers Brian Goodwin 10k 💙🩵 West Highland Way (95 Mile) Race 🥵🏔 Midnight Sun Tromsø Marathon ☀️🇳🇴 Race for Life Falkirk 🩷 Port Glasgow 10k

But, probably thr best result we had this week was the news that our friend Bryan Burnett is now cancer free and loving life 💜🤍🖤

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Numbers for the Bellahouston Harriers Brian Goodwin 10k are now available to collect in store, the members of Bellahouston Road Runners were fast off the mark, being the first in to get theirs! You can collect yours instore until 5pm on Thursday 18th June 😎

President's Cup - Wed 10th June 2026

What a night at our annual 5K Handicap race! 🤩

Eighty Six runners. Sixteen volunteers. Dozens of supporters. Zero rain (well almost!).

The club's biggest and possibly best ever President's Cup!! 🥳

Huge congratulations to our 2026 Champions — Murdoch Rodgers and Laura Henderson, and well done to every single one of you who took part!

Massive thanks to our amazing volunteers, and to everyone for making it such a fantastic night!

Cracking race! And the beer festival afterwards tops it off 🤩🍻 🚌💜

It's a big week coming up for us with 9️⃣8️⃣ members gearing up for our annual
President's Cup race on Wednesday 🏆

Firstly, a wee Babcock 10k Series update confirming that our Mens Team comprising Oscar Coetzee, Paul McNairn & Bryan Mulgrew were overall series winners🥇with Oscar also retaining his series MV40 title🥇

'Team Murphy' was out on Friday 5th June at the 50k AYRSHIRE COAST SUNSET ULTRA 🌅 starting and finishing at Irvine beach, south past Ayr and back, and designed to run from sunset to sunrise 😴 amazing from Grant finishing 2nd in 3:50:31🥈🥳 and Iain just behind in 4th with 4:06:45 🤩

On Saturday 6th, Angela Eadie took on her first ultra at Wild Deer Events Priory 100k 😯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 a trail race along the Northumberland coast, from Bamburgh Castle 🏰 to Tynemouth Priory ⛪️ an amazing achievement by Angela, finishing in 17:19:27 🤩

It was the Killearn 10k on Saturday ⛰️ we had a great turnout for this very friendly and popular race, with 3️⃣8️⃣ members running 💜 brilliant results too including Bryan Mulgrew 36:11 2nd overall 🥈Amelia Matthews 40:17 1st lady 🏆🥇Colin Hughes 42:45 1st MV60🥇Sarah McSharry 44:50 3rd FV40🥉Rebecca Croney 46:33 2nd FSnr🥈 Emma Peters 47:02 3rd FSnr🥉Marty Campbell 47:27 2nd MV50🥈Tomoyo Fujiwara 48:32 1st FV50🥇Caroline Munro 49:08 2nd FV50🥈Pauline Wright 50:10 3rd FV50🥉thanks to Abbey Coaches for our transport 🚍 and our own Kev's Running Pics 📸

On Sunday 7th, it was the Roon The Toon Kilmarnock 10k 🏡 well done to our eight Bellas who completed this one and took an empire biscuit home 🎱🍥 first home for us was Jamie Wieland 38:55 👏

Well done to Jordan Davidson 38:32 who was 1st place🏆 at the latest Up and Running Events Queen's Park 10k 'World Cup Warm Up' on Sunday 🌳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and at the Milngavie Trail race, it was a great run over the 8.5 mile course by Ben Nurse 53:46 in his Glasgow FrontRunners vest to take 3rd place🥉❤️‍🩹

And, as always, well done to our parkrunners this week 🌳 inc. Cathy Wood 1st lady at Queen's 🥇🥳 Rory Cormack 2nd at Bo'ness🥈Jen Conway-Evans & Hannah Berry 2nd ladies at Pollok & Victoria🥈Jamie Robinson 3rd at Stirling🥉Poppy Bowie 3rd lady at Kirra🥉🇦🇺

Thankyou as always to the organisers, volunteers, medics, emergency services, timing officials, sponsors and supporters for making all of these events possible and safe 🙏

Good luck to our members running this week, including at the Kirkintilloch 10k 🚢 Toota-Linn 8k 🌳 Alexandra Park 5k/10k 🌳 Strathearn Marathon ⛰️ and of course, the aforementioned President's Cup 🏆💜

A fantastic day out at the Killearn 10k yesterday! 🥳

Huge thanks to the organisers for another brilliantly run event 🤩

Massive well done to everyone who took part and a special shout out to our brilliant Bella prize winners 💜🌟

Amelia Matthews, 1st female 🥇
Bryan Mulgrew, 2nd male🥈
Tomoyo Fujiwara, 1st V50 🥇
Colin Hughes, 1st V60 🥇

And a big thank you to our friends at Abbey Coaches for getting us there and back, letting us enjoy some well earned post race refreshments 🚌🍻🥳

Anyone free to help at the Brian Goodwin 10K on Friday 19th June?

You’ll receive a free beer and burger if you can! 🍻 🍔🤩

Sign up here:
https://forms.gle/iUyHwN31hPumCRQ17

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝟏𝟎𝐤: 𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬!

📆 Bellahouston Harriers is hosting the Brian Goodwin Memorial 10k road race on 19th June 2026. The event is sold out and has attracted a strong field of club runners with over 500 entrants.

🙏 This is an appeal to our friends across Scotland’s running community for support in helping us to fill the marshalling roster to ensure we have a well managed, safe and fun event.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁?
📆⏰ Volunteers are asked to attend from 6.00pm on Friday 19th June at Cartha Queen’s Park Rugby Club, Glasgow, G41 4SN, in Pollok Park. The race starts at 7.30pm and we anticipate all marshals will have completed their duties and returned to the clubhouse by 9pm.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲?
📥 📍Volunteers will be allocated roles and be sent a copy of the Marshalling Plan and pre-race brief on the week of the race.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻?
💺🍔🍺A front row seat to one of the fastest 10k road races in Scotland in and around Pollok Park, and a free beer and burger for their efforts at the finish line.

𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥? 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙙 !
📝 Please fill out this form to help us track who has volunteered:
https://forms.gle/Pu8c67opLZLPjAxV6

Huge thanks in advance - we couldn’t do it without you 💙

With thanks to our long-time race sponsor Migo Sports

Huge congratulations to our amazing Claire Wharton & Shirley Wieland, who this week received Bronze medals from Scottish Athletics (SA) after being confirmed as 3rd W50 & W60 respectively, at the London Marathon, that was the SA Lindsays Scottish Marathon Championship race this year🥉🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤩 fantastic results ladies, well done 💜

Thursday 28th May, saw the third and concluding race in the Babcock 10k Series at the Helensburgh 10k ⛵️ it was a tough one on a warm night 🥵 very well done to the 19 Bellas who raced, with Oscar Coetzee 33:19 2nd MV40🥈 Paul McNairn 33:52 3rd MV40🥉Bryan Mulgrew 34:07, Stuart Macdougall 38:00, Michael Daniel Rice 38:45, Chic Forsyth 40:05, Ronnie Hart 41:14, Cara Thom 41:16, Al MacLachlan 41:37 2nd MV60🥈 Ross Wood 43:40, Rich Conway-Evans 43:56, Jen Conway-Evans 44:39, Pauline Wright 48:21 2nd FV50🥈 Alice Howe 48:55, Lynne Hamilton 50:27, Mandy Morgan 53:38, Pauline Bradley 56:04 3rd FV60🥉Graeme Pert 57:39, Murdoch Rodgers 58:50 👏 brilliant again by Oscar, Paul & Bryan winning the Mens Team prize🥇🥳

On Saturday 30th, at the Outsider Events Blair Castle Trail Weekender 🏰 Calum Brown conquered the Full Tilt 58k Ultra (c. 36 miles) 🌳 over 6,400 feet of ascent over two Munros ⛰️⛰️ a brilliant Ultra debut in 7:43:25 🤩

Sunday 41st, saw the latest running of the
Dunblane 12k Road Race, where Bruce Carmichael (43:38) was fourth overall, 2nd MV50🥈

Down at the Great Manchester Run Half Marathon on Sunday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jonathan Wieland "shaved" a mere 8min off his PB for a new one of 1:23:58 🤩 while Jamie Wieland took over 8mins off his Course Best, for a brilliant 1:27:16 😁 also running this one was Sandy Macdonald who finished in a great 1:36:32 👏

And, as always, well done at parkrun 🌳 inc. Ben Law & Conan McCreadie 5️⃣0️⃣ in at Pollok & Elder 🥳 2nd for Ben🥈5k PB for Conan (19:35) 🤩 David Jarrett 1st at Strathclyde🥇🥳 where Veronica Fusaro was 3rd lady🥉 Claire Wharton & Hannah Berry 1st ladies at Torvean & Dean Castle 🥇🥳 Jordan Davidson 2nd at Beecraigs🥈 Jamie Robinson & Stuart Macdougall 3rd at Elder & Pollok🥉 Leanne McIntosh & Cathy Wood 3rd ladies at Pollok & Elder🥉 Rory Cormack 5k PB (18:57) at Elder 🤩

We've just had our AGM 📣 and we've got our President's Cup 5k 'handicap' race coming up very soon, with 85 Bellas signed-up so far 🏆 good luck to our members racing around the country this week including at the Killearn 10k & Roon The Toon 💜🤍🖤