INVERCLYDE Athletics Club contributed to a Team Scotland gold in the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships.<\/p>\n
Andy Douglas\u00a0represented the club in the senior home international at Whinlatter in the\u00a0Lake District.<\/p>\n
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He competed in the ‘Up and\u00a0Down’ race, which serves as the UK Athletics\u00a0trial for the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, due to take place in Spain next month<\/p>\n
Andy placed fourth in a closely contested event under sunny and hot conditions. However, his result contributed to Scotland’s\u00a0achievement of team gold.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the Scottish half marathon, held\u00a0between Edinburgh<\/a> and\u00a0Musselburgh<\/a>, was the focus for Gregor Yates. He\u00a0had a strong race to seal a third place finish\u00a0and top the male 40 category.<\/p>\n Gregor Yates scooped up bronze in his category (Image: Supplied) Collette McGeehan took on the challenge for the first time and was more than happy with her performance in the hot conditions, whilst Jacqueline Wallace crossed the line\u00a0with a new personal best<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Closer to home, the Paisley<\/a> 10k was the focus for more Inverclyde<\/a> athletes.<\/p>\n John Bell remains in heavy training for his Ultra Challenge at the end of the month, which meant he tried to go with the fast pace.<\/p>\n However, to avoid possible injury, he eased back to settle for a sixth\u00a0place finish.<\/p>\n Next up\u00a0for Inverclyde was John Sharp, who crossed the line with a new personal best\u00a0in\u00a0fourth place, finishing two places ahead of Jack Letson.<\/p>\n The returning Alan Callan was happy with his performance, having\u00a0no issues to hold back his training.<\/p>\n After a month off, Nynke Mulholland used one of her favourite races to assess her fitness, finishing third in the women\u2019s event – and whilst Kay Greg slipped on a water bottle with three kilometres\u00a0to go, she\u00a0was happy to finish safely.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Nynke Mullholland returned to action in the Paisley 10K, where she lined up alongside clubmate Kay Greg.\u00a0(Image: Supplied) Several of the club’s Fit2Run scheme regulars participated, with Samantha O\u2019Neill and Toni Louise Norrie achieving new PBs, and Steph McCann beating her previous best by nearly two minutes, whilst Mary Patterson\u00a0completed her 10k successfully.<\/p>\n More club members were also active within the Inverclyde area with David and\u00a0Alan Henderson amongst the top finishers at the Greenock<\/a> parkrun on Saturday morning, while Abi Hammerman was first over the line with a new personal best.<\/p>\n Sunday morning saw Anna Shearer, Rudy Byrne, Faye Holmes, Murray Jameison, Rudi Stetz, and Caleb Freeman all having strong top ten placing at the Battery Park Junior Park Run with Caleb producing a new PB.<\/p>\n