Lothian clubs Edinburgh AC, Lasswade AC, Livingston AC, Team East Lothian and Harmeny AC are to host the first round of the Lothian Junior XC at Holyrood Park on Saturday 14th November. Entires from Harmeny athletes are now being taken - please see our private facebook page or the email from Andy.

It was lovely to have 4 different groups out on the covid-compliant Sunday runs yesterday. We had groups which ran the Pentland Skyline (20 miles, 6000 feet of climbing), a group which took on the 7r's race route (13 miles), a group running at a very socially paced flat 4.5 miles and a fourth group running 7 miles showing that there's something for everyone at Harmeny. If you are missing running with other people why not become a member so that you too can benefit from our club runs? For the small cost of £25 annual membership you can join our covid-compliant club runs as well as additional training sessions & activities.          

KEEP ON RUNNING is a new campaign launched by Scottish Athletics to keep people who may have started running in 2020 to stay active. After the success of our jogscotland beginner's group in January, this Sunday (18th October) Harmeny AC will be starting an organised group run for people who want to keep active, meet others and take their running to the next level. We are currently allowed by the Scottish Government to run in groups of up to 15 adults. Strict precautions are taken to make sure each session is safe, including risk assessments, collecting contact details for track and trace, no physical contact, and the appointment of a covid coordinator for each group. If you would like to get involved please sign up by registering to join Harmeny AC, Senior Members 20/21 via the following link http://harmenyac.org/ The cost is £25 per year

Thanks to our members who joined us via Zoom for our Annual Awards Ceremony. We are delighted to announce the following winners: Female Athlete of the Year: Lucy McDonald Male Athlete of the Year: Fergus Ross Competitor of the Year: Olivia Faith Muir Best Performance: U15 Boys Team Endeavour Award: Ben Paterson

Harmeny AC are offering FREE MEMBERSHIP for both adults and kids (8+) until the end of lockdown. We’ve noticed there are a lot of runners around the South West Edinburgh area at the moment and we’d love to encourage everyone to continue their running journey with help from the Scottish Athletics Impact Club of the Year (i.e. us!).  While we can’t offer you the social, coached or JogScotland running groups that we normally do, we can offer everyone advice on training, routes in the area, gear, and entry to Scottish Athletics virtual events (15min/30min Running challenge coming up at end of month for kids and adults (small fee applies), and a "Virtual Superteams" event being run over the next 4 weeks for younger kids - free) - and anything else running or athletics related. Once you sign up, you can join one of the private

Following yesterday evening’s update from Westminster and subsequent advice from our NGB, Scottish Athletics, I’m afraid we’ve had to take the decision to immediately cancel ALL Harmeny AC training sessions and runs until further notice. This includes all kids training sessions and events, all adult coached sessions and the Wednesday, Friday and Sunday adult runs. I’m sure you’ll all be disappointed, but we feel this is the right thing to do for now and we will continue to monitor what is a very fast moving, and often confusing situation. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-on-social-distancing-and-for-vulnerable-people/guidance-on-social-distancing-for-everyone-in-the-uk-and-protecting-older-people-and-vulnerable-adults

Hi Everyone I'm sure you are all aware of the Coronavirus advice and are wondering what impact it will have on the activities of Harmeny AC. Many of you will be aware that events across Scotland, and the world, have been postponed and cancelled as a result. At present the advice from the Scottish Govt and our National Governing Body (NGB) Scottish Athletics is that club gatherings of less than 500 members can go ahead, which would include all runs and training sessions. The coaches remain keen to keep training sessions going for as long as possible. However we would ask that anyone suffering any flu-like symptoms or who are in close contact with someone displaying symptoms are sensible and stay away from the club sessions for a time. We would also ask that hygiene guidelines are followed. Please see the Govt and NHS advice https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public and www.nhsinform.scot/coronavirus.

Well done to all the athletes who attended the recent age group championships at the Emirates Arena on the last weekend of February.  We have lots of pb's reported and 2 medals - Fergus Ross with gold in the u13s 800m and Matthew Holden with silver in the 1500m.  Well done to both boys!  

Well done to Kim Kenny the first recipient of our 'Top Dog' award for the amazing work done with our recent jog Scotland groups!  

Congratulations to our coach and Club Development Officer who has been appointed to the Scottish Athletics Equality and Diversity Advisory Group! Well done Graeme, we know you will do a fantastic job!

Evening troops! I’m aware that not all of us know the Pentlands like Iain; are brave enough to take on parkruns in uncharted territory like Donald and Elaine; or crazy enough to run the WHW like Kim and Sam. As such I wondered if anyone might be interested in a map reading training run at some point over the next few months on a Wednesday night or Sunday morning? I used to orienteer at a fairly decent level so have a bit of previous and would be happy to share my knowledge and maybe help you guys too.  Let me know on FB if you are interested and I'll organise a date or two.

Mud (and rain, sleet and hail) fest #bestdayoutever!    

Yet another amazing day for Harmeny AC on Saturday. Pride of place goes to U15 boys who, as usual with this bunch of extraordinary boys, performed when it really mattered and won the East District League. Amazing. Tendai, Archie, Alastair, Ethan, Finlay and Jacob - what a squad! Just to prove what a great squad we have, the u11 boys were narrowly beaten to the title. A win for Fergus and a 3rd place from Daniel who were brilliantly backed up by an impressive squad: Ross, Charlie, Ben, Arran, Jacob, Fergus and Jonty. It was particularly pleasing to see the u11 girls also finishing 2nd over the 3-match season. Top10 finishes for Nancy and Leah backed up by a top 20 for Carys, and strong finishes from Olivia and Alex. Another 2 top 10 finishes from Dan and Matthew saw the under 13 boys also

  Name of Competition & Venue Type When Age Groups How to Enter Events at Competition Standard of Competition Run Stirling/British Cross Challenge Stirling xc Saturday 11th January U13 to Seniors Individual entry required Cross country race (1.5mile for U13 up to 8k for seniors) All abilities Scottish Athletics Indoor League (SAIL) Emirates Glasgow Indoor T&F Sunday 12th January 9am to 1pm U11 to U20 Via Club - athlete availability already provided and teams picked. U11s are 60m, 600m, and Good, friendly introduction to indoor athletics. East District Cross Country League Livingston xc Saturday 18th January 12pm onwards U11 to Seniors Turn up on day Cross country race (1mile for U11 up to 9k for seniors) All abilities. National Indoor Championships Emirates, Glasgow Indoor T&F Under 17 - 26th January U13, U15, U20, U17, Seniors Individual entry required All events included. National event attract the best from around Scotland.

Hi All As another new term starts soon, I wanted to drop you all an email to both review what has been yet another remarkable term and to look forward to an equally busy winter term, taking us to Easter.  While important club news will always be emailed out, please join our private Facebook page where lots of other information and general chat happens: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1457275801211925/ Also, please note that the request for Training fees will be out shortly - the request will be for the remainder of the school year until end of June, at £2.50 per session.  Please pay this promptly on receipt of the email from Susan. Review of Autumn Term ·         Most of the Autumn term is dominated by Cross Country, and Harmeny are proving once again to be one of the strongest clubs in the East District League with strong showings after 2 matches in

Please have a read of the updated welcome pack and weekly sessions re our junior membership. Welcome to Harmeny AC weekly sessions january 2020v2

While our senior members were organising the infamous 7 reservoirs race our junior members were out in force at the Emirates Stadium for the second match of the Indoor League. Although slightly depleted due to illness we had athletes in all age groups from U11 to U20 and everyone looked like they were having a great time.  Some of our members were doing their very first competition and the excellent organisation from all the officials made sure that everyone was where they were meant to be! Results will be posted when we have them available.    

The 2019 Harmeny 7R Half Marathon final results are available here: 7R-Race-2019-Results.pdf If there are any errors or omissions please let us know The race team were delighted to be able to make a £300 donation to Sara and her team for her wonderful work at Youth Vision. I'm sure that you all appreciated the fires, hot drinks and homemade soup that she provided after the race..https://www.youthvision.uk/ Despite the slippy conditions today, we had a female course record time for the third year in a row with Jill Stephen from HBT taking almost 3 minutes off the previous record in a cracking time of 1:33:05. Congratulations Jill 🥂 Have a look at further info and photos on the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/7R-Multi-Terrain-Half-Marathon-1412587118963116/    

Fantastic results again from Harmeny AC’s young runners recently.  The best result came for Tendai Nyabadza, winning the Lindsay’s Scottish Athletics Short Course National Cross Country championships in Kirkcaldy.  Tendai was also part of the Under 15 team who, with current National Cross Country champion Finlay Ross, just missing out on the medals in 4th place, won the team Bronze medal, helped by great finishes from Ethan Lorimer (54) and Archie Irwin (90). We had a large ladies team out too but due to injury and illness only one brave man! Results can be found here: https://salicence.sportserve.net/useruploads/eventinfo/2019%204Kxc%20All%20Provisional%20Results%20A.Pdf

Thanks to all the organisers and helpers at Lasswade AC who, despite the terrible weather, put on another fantastic xc event on Sunday. We had full teams in girls and boys U11's and girls and boys U13's and also a senior ladies team. Some fantastic results individually and as teams saw us coming home with the results as follows: U11 Girls 1st Team   Leah 2nd Nancy 6th Carys 19th U11 Boys 1st Team Fergus 2nd Daniel 5th Ross 8th U13 Girls 2nd Team Natsai 1st Esther 8th Charlotte 12th U13 Boys 1st Team Matthew 1st Dan 5th Dair 10th Archie 13th Kealan 14th Kieran 22nd U15 Boys Tendai 1st Senior ladies 2nd Team Fiona, Nicola, Susan Fiona also won 1st V40    Full results can be found here http://www.lasswade-ac.org.uk/club/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Unscrutinised-Cross-Country-Results-.pdf        

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We had both a junior and senior teams out for the relays this weekend. Despite having to run up an age category our junior males came home in 12th position with strong runs from all 3 boys. Our Masters womans team of Fiona, Lesley and Lorna did us proud with a 10th place finish and our senior ladies team also ran well. Karl was our only male runner on the day but ran the hilly 4k course in 16.27. Results can be found here:http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/21593-18194-lindsays-scottishathletics-national-cross-country-relay-championships  

It's been a fantastic week for Harmeny Athletic Club.  After being shortlisted for the 2nd time in 3 years for the Impact Club of the Year Award at the upcoming Scottish Athletics Awards and our Head Coach Craig Stewart being shortlisted as Volunteer of the Year again for the 2nd time in 3 years , the club’s juniors took the first match of the East District Cross Country league by storm in Stirling on Saturday.  There were individual wins for Fergus Ross and Tendai Nyabadza and 7 (seven!) other top 10 finishes by Leah Buchan, Nancy Corrie, Charlotte MacPhie, Natsai Nyabadza, Daniel McIntyre, Matthew Holden and Finlay Ross.  These results, backed up by lots of other great runs, meant that the club is top of the league in the U11 boys, U13 girls, and U15 boys and not far away in the U11 girls (2nd)

The 2019-20 annual subscriptions are now due and you should have received an email today requesting you login to Loveadmin to pay these before 31st October 2019.  The cost is £25 per member and we can now claim Gift Aid if you are a taxpayer.  Please tick the correct box in your account to allow us to benefit from this. For senior members your annuals subs give you all the following benefits: Meet and socialise with runners of all abilities and improve your running Assisted Membership scheme for those who need it most Club Discount at all local running shops Access to 2 Virgin London Marathon Places ballot Exclusive membership of club’s private Facebook group 3 weekly member-led runs 2 free weekly coached interval sessions Free weekly strength and conditioning class Access to 22 Scottish-Athletics qualified coaches Entry to Club’s Grand Prix competition Entry to