Leagues
Club Leagues
The winter league runs from October to March, and provides the opportunity to visit wonderful places like Cumbernauld, Clydebank, Irvine and Falkirk.
The summer league is usually based on around 10 hill races spread across the season, April to October.
League details are below; but first...
The "Big 8"
In 2011, Niall McAlinden laid down the challenge to achieve as many as possible of the 8 big goals that many club runners aspire to, in a single calender year. Some of the goals are significantly more difficult then others (although we could argue all day over which is actually the hardest). The times are as follows:-
For Men:
1 mile - 5 mins
3k - 10 mins
5k - 20 mins
5miles (8km) - 30 mins
10k - 40 mins
10miles - 1 hour
Half Marathon - 90 mins
Marathon - 3 hours
And for women:
1 mile - 5.30 mins
3k - 11 mins
5k - 22 mins
5miles (8km) - 33 mins
10k - 44 mins
10miles - 66 mins
Half Marathon - 100 mins
Marathon - 3:30 hours
...and Niall created a spreadsheet which tracks progress towards the Big 8.
Good luck everyone!
Winter League 2011/12A new winter league is underway, with a mix of road and cross country races and parkrun bonuses. John Quinn retains a slender lead over John Denovan and Don Reid, despite missing out on the West Districts.
| Winter Fixtures The 2011/12 Westies Winter League is based on the following 15 races:
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Summer LeagueBrian Brennan is the Summer League organiser. Brian summarised the final positions in 2011 thus:- "The Westies summer league concluded with the Ben Venue race on 1st Oct and......roll of drums please ......a bit more drums .......some Jaws theme tune .......etc etc ......Pat McLaughlin is this year's worthy winner. Definitely a good year for the Westies wimmin, as you will see from the league table only one guy made the top 4 and we've never been too sure about him. Both Paula and Pauline were well up earlier in the league but fell away leaving Auntie Pat to first catch and then annihilate old Brennan who has never been the same since his Ben Rinnes disaster. Well done Pat, thoroughly deserved victory. Among the batch of guys just behind the wimmin were Don Reid, Graham Kelly, Owen O'Neill, Manny Gorman, and Cameron Burt. Just behind them and beating old Pete Baxter by a point was his missis Elsie......excellent result Elsie. A total of 43 Westies competed in one or more of the summer league races in 2011 which is a good shout but I'm sure we'll be able to beat that next year."
| Summer Fixtures (2011) 20th Apr - Kaim |
