The 5th Balfron 10K race took place on Sunday morning starting outside the Balfon High School. Under blue skies and very sunny conditions, surrounded by incredible scenery it’s easy to see why this has been voted by Runner’s world magazine as the best 10K in Scotland. The route is an out and back along traffic-free country roads, fairly undulating with a significant climb from 7 to 8k. The race then finished back at the school with a good crowd cheering us home. The chipped race was very well organised with two water stands along the course and an excellent goody bag at the end with t-shirt, medal etc.
A total of 490 runners completed the course.
Under quite hot conditions (for April!), the race was won by Robert Gilroy of Ronhill Cambuslang in a time of 33.20. The first women home was Jane Fanning of Serpentine running club in 39.18. The mighty Maryhill harriers were represented by four runners:
29th Andy Sutherland: 40.29
238th Margaret Peebles: 52.39
258th Raymond Stevenson: 53.24
272nd Fletcher Murdoch: 53.59
