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 2011/12The winter league is drawing to a close. It features a mix of road and cross country races and parkrun bonuses. John Quinn holds a slender lead at the top, courtesy of his PB in the National Cross Country. | 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. Here's Brian's update after Kaim:- "After the first two races of the summer league Murdo McLeod is setting the pace in the lead after strong performances at Clachnaben and Kaim. The next two places are filled by Brian Brennan and Peter Grassl simply because they are the only other two people to have completed two races so far. Just behind them are the male and female winners for Westerlands at each of the two races, Brian Bonnyman and John Denovan respectively for the men and Val Brunton and Val Houston for the women. 20 people have competed for Westies in the two races so far. Long way to go but Westies participation is looking good with several new runners appearing for the club for the first time. The next two races are Stuc a Chroin and Dumyat so get your running gear sorted out for these two cracking races." | Summer Fixtures (2012)
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