The Masters cross country championships for 2026 took place at Tollcross Park in Glasgow on Saturday 31 January. The course was an undulating 2km loop with a looping descent from the start followed by a steady climb to some flat zig zags at the top of the course, with...

The Scottish Veterans Harriers Club (SVHC) is an unusual athletics club that organises representative Scottish Over 35 teams and Masters Championships across many athletics disciplines. Their first fixture of the calendar year is the Masters Road Relays held at...

The third and final fixture of the 2025-26 East League cross country series took place at Bathgate’s Balbardie Park on Saturday 17 January. The ground underfoot was mostly dry and in places quite hard from the recent persistent frost. The East League provides...

The Scottish Inter-district cross country took place at Glasgow's Alexandra Park on Saturday 10 January. In addition to representative teams for Scotland's three athletic districts (East, West and North) the match included open races and Scottish Students teams for...

Entries for the Podfather Stirling 10k 2026 are now open! Hurry along to https://www.entrycentral.com/PODFatherStirling10kandfunruns to nab your Early Bird entry (first 300 entries only). The race, alongside the 2km and 3.5km fun runs, takes place over the usual fast...

Cross country running is almost always character building and conditions in Fintry, on Sunday 11 January, underlined that with near freezing temperatures, driving rain and hard underfoot conditions. Each of the fourteen athletes deserved a medal just for fronting up...

Conditions were perfect for fast cross country running at the third race of Central Athletics Club’s Cross Country Series held in the Laigh Hills, Dunblane on Saturday 20 December. Derek Easton had set a two lap course, totalling approximately 1 mile, with enough...

The 26th edition of the Central Athletic Club Christmas Handicap once again lived up to its billing as one of the winter season’s highlights. One 4km lap of the University campus with the fastest runners starting last, in a masterpiece of handicapping from maestro...

East District XC Relay Championships, Livingston, 11 October The curtain raiser for this cross country season took place at Livingston where we fielded 3 teams of junior athletes and also had 3 runners without complete teams. Our Girls A team comprising Lila...

Central Athletic Club again offers our young athletes a cross country series of grassroots competition and a great introduction to this aspect of athletics. This is a great opportunity to spend some time with Scotland’s foremost Endurance Coach, Derek Easton, and have...