Cover photo – Caley Cup winner James and chocolate medallists Alan, Jan, Louise and Diane

Time Trial

The last week of every 10 week training block sees the Leven Las Vegas time trial organised by Chris Russell. Runners are challenged to run a 1.8 mile course around two laps of the Energy Park in Methil in an attempt to improve on their previous best time for the trial. The runner who records the biggest improvement wins the coveted Caley Cup trophy.

On this occasion the clear winner was James Scott who set a fantastic time of 10:24, improving his previous time by more than two minutes and achieving 8th position on the all-time list of best times over the course.

In second place also with a very impressive performance was Gillian Hewitt who finished in 11:45, an improvement of 50 seconds. Gillian is now the 4th fastest ever lady runner in the time trial and if she continues to improve she must be odds on to beat the female record of 11:30 before long.

Also making significant improvements of more than 30 seconds were Louise Morris and Gayle Moran.

The full results were as follows:

Presentation of the Caley Cup was held in the Caledonian Hotel in Leven where Lynda English was given a special mug for 100 attendances at Leven Las Vegas training while Alan Davie, Jan Spittal, Louise Morris and Diane Napier received chocolate medals for reaching 25 week and 10 week milestones.

Parkruns

It was great to see some of Leven Las Vegas’s new recruits at the weekend parkruns.

Jaime Muir beat her inaugural time from last week to set a new PB at St Andrews.

Angie Wood and Kirsty Barclay were first time visitors at Kirkcaldy parkrun, where Paula McLean set yet another PB.

 

Neil Beard was a first time runner at Elgin parkrun.

Dramathon

The Dramathon is a marathon distance race along the Speyside Way from Glenfarclas distillery to Glenfiddich distillery passing several other distilleries along the route. By getting stamped at each participating distillery, runners can then pick up the corresponding miniatures at the end of the race. There is also a half marathon distance which is run over the second half of the marathon course.

Matt Holden ran the marathon, finishing 52nd in 3:44:06.

Ruth Cruickshank did the half marathon and was 102nd in 2:14:57.

Hoping to add photos of Ruth and Matt as soon as possible.

Upcoming Events

The Nightmare Series race 1 – Friday 27 October

The Nightmare Series is presented and organised by the Prince of Darkness Chris Russell. It is a series of six races, one per month over the winter months, held in a variety of locations.

Race 1 of the 2017/18 series is called “Harrowing Happenings in Heatherhall” and will be held in Heatherhall Woods near Ladybank on Oct 27th 2017. This is a fun trail run in the dark and is suitable for all abilities. Everyone is welcome to participate although under 15s must be accompanied by an adult at all times. All runners will need a headtorch and a stopwatch.

Registration is from 6:45pm and the 4 mile run starts at 7:30pm. The cost is £3 and all of the proceeds will go to Fife Society for the Blind.

Further ahead:

• Pentland Hills Flash Mob Run – Friday 3 November
• Glen Ogle 33 Ultra – Saturday 4 November
• Bob Stark Memorial Race – Sunday 5 November
• Lasswade Open Cross Country – Sunday 5 November
• Templeton 10 – Sunday 5 November
• Men’s 10k, Edinburgh – Sunday 5 November
• Kelpies 5k – 10/11/12 November
• Short Course Cross Country Championships, Kirkcaldy – Saturday 11 November
• Glen Clova Half Marathon – Saturday 11 November
• Silvery Tay Trail Race, Wormit – Sunday 12 November
• Livingston AC Open Cross Country – Saturday 18 November
• Hartley Cup – Sunday 19 November

If any events or participants have been missed out, please let the editor know. 

Whoever is at any events, please remember to take lots of photographs and post them on the club Facebook page.

New Jog Leaders

By the time the next training block starts on Tuesday 31 October, Leven Las Vegas Running Club will have two new jog leaders. Bex Oakenfull and Wendy Wylie are attending their training course with jogScotland on Saturday 29 October at Grangemouth Stadium.

Both ladies will be excellent additions to the jog leader ranks and we look forward to them getting involved in the next training block.

Birthdays

Happy birthday wishes go to Mark and Chris who have jointly contributed to a significant rise in sales of birthday cake candles this week.