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ALISON KING

Alison rejoined the club in 2004 after a long spell away.  Alison was ladies champion in 1997 -1998 and regained this title in 2004 - 2005,

then 2006 - 2007. 

 

David Henderson

Been a member of Glenpark since 2004 and one of the clubs multi sports althletes. Notible achievments to date:

1 x  Ironman Nice 2007 Triathlon (2.4 mile swim /112 mile cycle/ 26.2 mile run)

2 x Half Ironman (2005 & 2007)

1 x Big Triathlon (Billed Britian's toughest event 2006)

16 x Marathon

Swam across Clyde & Firth of  Forth

Cycles stages of the TDF (2005)

PB's

Ironman 12:42:19 (2007)

1/2 Ironman 6:09:49 (2005)

Marathon 3:21 (2007)

1/2 Marathon 1:31:12 (2006)

10K 39:54 (2006)

 

 

Davy Ballantyne

Stephen Trainer

Stephen’s first notable success was when he won Bronze at the National cross country Championship at Irvine Beach Park in the Under13 age group. More recently he took Scottish track Under 20 titles over 5km.

  

Favorite Race - Scottish National Cross Country Championships

Favourite Athlete -  Hicham El Guerrouj

Best Performance - winning the Willie Jukes 5mile road race with one shoe, losing it just after ½ way....ouch!

Biggest Disappointment - letting Stevie McLoone beat me in the Singlehurst race not knowing he would retire after it.

Best Glenpark memory - being on the buses packed with 30 juniors going to races.

Jim Sheridan

One of the Harriers most senior members.

 

Danny McLaughlin

Club captain.

 

Sharron Skinner

Joined the Harriers in 2007, and had a fantastic debut season, winning her first  trophy at the Willie Jukes road race at Dunoon in 2008.

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Robert Wilson

Talented veteran runner, winning Scottish Master titles in various distances from 800m to the Marathon. In 2007 he was part of the GB team that took Gold in the World Masters Championships. 

 

James Wilson

James (in white) is the Harriers only Olympic medallist. He won Bronze in the 10000m behind "Flying Finn" Paavo Nurmi (far right) at the 1920 Games in Antwerp. he also collected a team Silver in the 8km X-C, finishing first counter for the GB team. His Clubmate George Wallach ran in the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm.

 

Andy McCall Jnr

Andy won his first club Championship title in 2006-07 and retained it the following season. He specialises in Hill running, and represented Scotland at Under 20 level in the World Mountain Trophy in Turkey in 2006.

  

Stephen McLoone

Took up running quite late in life, aged 29 and joined the Harriers in 1991. The club was full of talented athletes at the time Tommy Murray, Alan Puckrin, Hammy Cox, Pat Duffy, John McFadden, and Billy Jenkins to name but a few. Now involved in coaching and acts as club secretary.

Favourite Race – Ben Nevis – apart from not being able to walk the following few days after it.

 

Favourite Athlete(s) -  Haile Gebreselassie / Jonathan Wyatt 5 times world mountain running champion (should have been 6).

 

Best Performance(s) – Nothing spectacular but it was in two races where I achieved results beyond my expectations -Getting under 1hour 50minutes at Ben Nevis and finishing 3rd in the 2003 Renfrewshire X-C championships, helping the team to the County title.

 

Biggest Disappointment – Failing to finish the Devil O’ the Highlands race. I gave up with severe cramp in both legs after 36 miles, 7 miles short of the finish.

 

Best Glenpark Memory – Race days at Dunoon.

 

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