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...

For the first time since the start of 2023, we have had to revise the prices for club competition kit (vests, crop tops and shorts). Competition kit is available from Run4It in Bridge of Allan, or directly from Hugh Buchanan. Full kit details including the revised...

The athlete database with results up to the end of the season is now available on the Athlete Statistics page. It contains a list of all those who have achieved a performance certificate for the season. I will issue an updated database soon with a full list of the...