{"id":482949,"date":"2025-10-08T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482949\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:39:11","slug":"gala-harriers-travel-to-glasgow-for-athletics-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482949\/","title":{"rendered":"Gala Harriers travel to Glasgow for athletics events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Katie Rourke won the half marathon in a time of 1 hour, 16 minutes, 49 seconds, more than a minute ahead of Olympic marathoner Freya Ross from Falkirk Victoria Harriers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Vet 70 runner David Nightingale secured an age category 3rd.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Saturday, October 4, four Harriers headed to Tollcross Park, Glasgow for the Scottish Veteran Harriers Club trials for the British and Irish Masters XC Championships.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordertelegraph.com\/news\/25519997.teenager-arrested-emergency-services-tackle-three-fires-borders-town\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teenager arrested after emergency services tackle three fires in Borders town<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Three of the club&#8217;s ladies secured automatic selection to represent Scotland in Leeds in November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Katy Barden was 3rd overall, just 14 seconds behind the winner and age category 1st.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Pamela Baillie was 6th overall and age category 2nd, just five seconds behind the 1st runner in her age category.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Julia Johnstone was 22nd overall and 1st in her age category. For the men, Marcus D\u2019Agrosa was 12th overall, missing out on selection in the V35 category.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Wednesday, October 1, the Scottish Schools Athletics Road Race Championships were held in Dunfermline, Harriers running for their own schools.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordertelegraph.com\/news\/25520077.man-22-suffers-serious-injury-attack-borders-bus-stop\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man, 22, suffers \u2018serious injury\u2019 in attack at Borders bus stop<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Top finisher on the day was Earlston High School second year pupil Molly Trewartha who was just pipped into 4th place in a sprint finish.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Also in the top five, Earlston\u2019s S6 pupil Ava Richardson who finished 5th.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kelso\u2019s Oliver Hastie and Earlston\u2019s Seb Darlow had excellent top 15 finishes in 11th and 14th in the S5\/S6 race.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Also breaking into the top 20 were Earlston\u2019s Angus McCarty (20th), Gala Academy\u2019s Freya Ainslie (20th ) and Galashiels Academy\u2019s Poppy Lunn (19th) and Selkirk\u2019s Holly Craig (19th).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Rourke won the half marathon in a time of 1 hour, 16 minutes, 49 seconds, more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-482949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}