Cambuslang Harriers runners set records at Down by the River 10k and 3k races

Several course records were set as Cambuslang Harriers staged the Achilles Heel-sponsored Down by the River 10k and 3k races on the traffic-free Clyde walkway.

Race winners Fraser Stewart of Cambuslang Harriers (31.05) and Catherine Stewart (38.10), an unattached runner, reduced the existing course records by 44 and 29 seconds, respectively.

Runner-up Lesley Blackwood of Cambuslang (38.25) also finished comfortably inside the previous record.

Other course records fell to second-placed M40 Iain Carroll of Bellahouston Harriers, Cambuslang’s fourth-placed M50 Stevie Wylie, and the host club’s Under-20 Eilidh Kennedy.

Wylie’s new course record by a massive 3 minutes and 54 seconds put him a close second in the UK M50 ranking for the distance.

The Cambuslang trio of Fraser Stewart, third-placed Gordon Robertson and Stevie Wylie took the team award from Cambuslang Harriers.

Their women’s team of Lesley Blackwood, Kirsty O’Brien and Catriona Bain also won the team award, beating Newton Road Runners to the prize.

Luke Biggart won the under-20 men’s prize, with experienced Erica Christie taking the O60s win, both of Cambuslang Harriers.

Unattached runners Nathalie Brohan, Jacqui Thomson and Gareth Walker took the F40, F50 and M60 awards.

The Jimmy Sands Memorial Shields went to race winners Fraser Stewart and Catherine Stewart [who are not related], while the Jim Fitzpatrick Memorial Shield was won by Iain Carroll and Nathalie Brohan.

Cambuslang Harriers provided 40 of the 181 finishers, and there were top-ten placings, and sub-34.36 times, for Colin Reilly and Ian Hodge and Iain McDonald.

Luke Biggart, Justin Carter, Michael Black and Mark King finished inside 36 minutes.

The 3k participants started five minutes after the 10k