A summary of competition action over the last seven days.

Blast off!

This month’s Blast 5k at Edinburgh’s Meadows took place on Tuesday 12 May over the usual two lap course with a brisk northerly wind to scatter the remaining cherry blossom. Ally Cunningham was first home among the club’s representatives in 22:19, followed by Hugh Buchanan in 23:06. Linda Cunningham was delighted with her 25:16 and Jill Scott continued her recuperation from injury with 28:48. Full results at https://blastrunning.co.uk/5km-the-meadows-results.

Rock on!

One of the 500 races in the book “World’s Ultimate Running Races“, the Black Rock 5 in Fife is as wonderfully eccentric as it gets, with the race date set using tide tables, the steepest uphill finish in the calendar and a free beer for all finishers. The whole of Kinghorn turned out to watch the fun on Friday 15 May as 1200 runners donned their second-best footwear to tackle the shallows and sand.

It was a night of celebration for Central as Aidan Thompson had a storming run at the front to take the men’s title in 21:56, just outside Jamie Crowe’s course record, and Kaydan Day finished second U20 in 24:27. It was even better in the women’s category as Morag Millar vanquished the field in 26:16 with Jen Wetton clinching third in 27:37.

Mixed in among those prize winners, Jamie Stevenson had a strong run in 24:52 with Scott Green scoring 27:02 and Lewis Millar in a rare race outing showing that he’s still got it as he finished in 27:53. Tony Disley was rightly delighted to be seventh V50 in 28:39 and was hotly pursued by younger men Chris Watson in 28:43 and Colin McCreadie in 29:13.

As the flow of finishers built up, Gordon Appelbe worked well for his 31:34 as did Stephen Moore in 32:46 and Alastair Cunningham was well up the V60s with his 34:03 clocking. Eve Conroy added to her repertoire of races as she finished in 37:16, Linda Cunningham set her best time on this course of 40:57 while Rhona Scott and Claire Thompson finished side by side in 44:13.

Full results at https://results.perfecttimingscotland.co.uk/results.aspx?CId=20065&RId=3156 .

Junior Hill League

The third race of the Scottish Junior Hill Running League for Under 12s up to Under 18s took place at Broughton on Saturday 16 May. In the Under 12 race of 1.2km with 80m of ascent Annabel Morrison won the girls prize in 6:26. In the Under 14 race over 3.1km with 130m of ascent, Annie Arnott scooped third place among the girls in 15:06 and Jack Morrison put in a strong shift in 18:12. Congratulations to all! Full results and photos at https://www.facebook.com/ScottishJuniorHillRunning 

British Milers Club Trafford

British Milers Club (BMC) races offer a series of seeded track events over popular race distances (not just miles) and held their latest Grand Prix event at Trafford in Manchester on 16 May.

Kieran Reilly took on the B race in the 1500m event and clocked a solid 3:54.44. In the 5000m races, Jamie Crowe recorded the fastest time of the night, comfortably winning the A race in 13:55.30

Full results at https://www.britishmilersclub.com/result/trafford-grand-prix-16-may-2026-results/

East District Track and Field, Aberdeen Sports Village

There are pictures on our Central AC Members and Parents Facebook feed.

Day 1

Central had three under 16 girls competing on day 1 with Tessa Gray taking a bronze medal in the long jump with 4.50m. Despite another girl jumping the same distance on her last jump Tessa’s 4.47m second round jump was enough to earn her the bronze!

Tessa was also competing in the 100m and sneaked into the final in 7th with a wind assisted 13.34s and showed her strength in the final coming 6th into a strong headwind in 13.97s

Emily Watkin and Rachel Fullbrook both also represented Central on day 1 in the 800m races. Emily in the B race finished 5th in a time of 2:35.84 and Rachel finished 6th in the A race in a time of 2:26.33.

Well done all three girls

Day 2

Rachel Fullbrook returned for day 2 and was a double medal winner with two new PBs. First off she stormed home in gold medal position in the 300m hurdles in a time of 48.69s. She followed that up with a silver medal performance in the javelin throwing 24.61m.

Congratulations to Emily Watkin who picked up the Gold medal in the triple jump in challenging conditions today with a best jump of 9.42m.

Well done Rachel and Emily!