More importantly, from a broader perspective, he was the only Scottish middle distance runner then who was capable of filling the big boots left by Jack Paterson and Duncan Mill. Even though still in the early stages of his athletic career, he was, it seemed, carrying not only the mail bu...
Liz McColgan is a decorated former athlete, having competed at World Championships, Olympic Games, and Commonwealth Games, to name a few, all across the world. Eilish followed in her mother’s footsteps and is a middle and long-distance runner. She is the current 2022 Commonwealth Games 10,0...
Liz McColgan is a decorated former athlete, having competed at World Championships, Olympic Games, and Commonwealth Games, to name a few, all across the world. Eilish followed in her mother’s footsteps and is a middle and long-distance runner. She is the current 2022 Commonwealth Games 10,0...
This was nevertheless a good performance with the West leading off with Scotland’s top middle distance runner, D McPhee, on the half mile leg. Report said that the contest for the Wyoming Cup now stood at one each for Maryhill and the West with the Cup going to the club which won it...
That’d seem like a string of cliches if I weren’t right here with Lewis and the dogs and a bin full of fresh mushrooms in a Middle Earth-like setting. Nor is he overly sentimental about the whole thing, like you might expect from some of the crunchier elements of the farm-to-tabl...
Kirkintilloch was the nearest town of any size and there was no running track, the only pavilions were for a couple of football teams, and yet some of the best international athletes in the world – sprint hurdlers, middle distance runners (at least one a world record holder), throwers ...
The half mile was probably the race of the meeting with McGough one of the all-time greats of Scottish middle and long distance running and McCafferty a Scottish cross-country champion. The half mile here had a very big field and McGough won by 6 yards. Good weather, good close competit...