Month: November 2025

SIXTEEN speedy Falkirk Victoria Harriers athletes made the trip down to Liverpool’s Sefton Park for the Liverpool Cross Challenge on 22/11/2025.

Lead by the Happy coaches Jerome, David & Blair & their parents, the party of 40 enjoyed a weekend with hotel stay, gym visit, tasty looking food and LOTS OF MUD. Although on reviewing the photos I’m sure it was much wetter underfoot last year.

We had 3 u15 boys in the 188 man race, where the youngsters seriously impressed with Ben U finishing in 36th place, Thomas M closely behind in 56th & Hamish G following in 121st.

A strong group of 5 u17 men ran in the 199 man race, where, almost like a training session Harrison McMillan, Ray Taylor & Rory McMillan ran in unison finishing 19th, 21st & 22nd with only 3 seconds between them all. Luke Sedman was next to cross the line in 59th place & Cahal McAtarsney followed in 134th.

Emily Christie single handedly flew the Falkirk Flag for our u17 girls. She finished a strong 51st out of 117. The 3 u20 woman all had strong runs, Isabella Ogg finishing 54th, Lucie Gibson 80th & Charlotte Horne 88th.

Our 2 u20 men Luke Culliton, 87th & Callum Hendry 121st both running well.

We had 2 seniors running the 9.8k distance, the start line of the senior men’s race was a whopping 919 deep. Amazing finish from Scott Stirling saw him finishing in an impressive 26th place(25.29), closely followed by Calum Little in 62nd(27.16).

Official start lists & times are listed here

https://results.sporthive.com/events/7397598404446973952/races/13

News in from Lanark where Falkirk Victoria Harriers were represented across the age groups!

U15 girls team finished 11th with S Robertson 25th, A McAtarsney 36th, M Blair 49th & E Shepherd 64th.

Our u15 boys grabbed a podium position silver medal with B Upfold 6th, T Mitchell 16th & H Gillies 26th making up the winning team, also running was D Harris 65th.

U17 girls sadly did not have enough runners to make a team but Emily Christie 8th & Lara Crawford 28th displayed some strong running.

Golden u17 boys triumphed when they were awarded the Short Course Champions, topping the podium in Gold position were Rory MacMillan 3rd, Harrison MacMillan 6th & Ray Taylor 14th, also running was Cahal McAtarsney 56th.

Our seniors & masters woman were well represented with 10 runners, the team finished 10th, with Isabella Ogg 44th, Katie Christie 46th, Lucie Gibson 75th & Fiona Mathieson 87th. Also running were Katie Hedges 98th, Niamh Brown 107th, Katie Bennie 146th, Karen McAllister 230th, Janet Murray 233rd & Debz Graham 259th.

Senior & masters men team finished 12th, Scott Stirling 11th, Callum Hendry 30th, Luke Culliton 54th & Grant Mathieson 249th made up the 4 to count for team points, Michael McQuaid 262nd also ran.

In our senior & master races, as well as being 4th counters in their teams, Fiona Mathieson finished 1st woman in the v60 age group & Grant Mathieson finished 2nd man in the V60 age group.

Start lists & results are published here https://results.perfecttimingscotland.co.uk/results.aspx?CId=20065&RId=1258&EId=2

All the information can be found here

Stadium Attendant- GCST

The good news keeps rolling in, after super successful year for u17 athlete Kishi Aremu the talented youngster is shortlisted for the u17 Scottish Athletics Athlete of the Year award.

The award ceremony, with guest speaker Christine Ohuruogu, will take place on 29th November & tickets can be bought Here.

Then proud coach Bryan Roy shared the news that Kishi has joined the 2026 Futures 4×100 relay program – this program supports athletes aiming for the European u18 & the u20/senior World championships, supporting their development & aiding them with the necessary skills, abilities & behaviours to progress onto the World & Olympic stage.

This is amazing news and we are so excited to watch what the future holds for Kishi!

Huge well done to Kishi, her family & coach Bryan Roy – this is only the beginning!