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Our friends at the Orkney Cross Country League start their season this Sunday in Dounby, with entries by Saturday evening. Well worth entering even if you can't make every event as it's terrific value.
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Congratulations to everyone who competed the Loch Ness Marathon and River Ness 10k today! Sounds like some challenging conditions with water, heat and insects following folk round the hills.
Some fantastic results there - a sub 3 hour marathon for our coach Craig Moar in finishing 37th out of thousands, Carrie Gunn getting round in just over 5 despite only remembering she'd signed up six weeks ago and raising more than £1000 in the process and Ava Luke finishing as fifth female and 59th out of 2186 in the 10k, behind Inverness' Megan Keith who ran a course record. Well done to everyone and enjoy your days out!
Orkney results (very much not exhaustive, shout if you spot anyone else!)
10k
Ava Luke 00:38:15
Sinclair Peace 00:43:04
Amy Walker 00:52:09
Sheree Peace 00:57:46
Anna Flaws 01:01:10
Steph Davies 01:10:56
Morag Cole 01:12:14
Amy Sutcliffe 01:32:59
Marathon
Craig Moar 02:55:24
Shona Croy 04:29:10
Shelagh Hutchison 04:39:27
Carrie Gunn 05:10:07
Carrie was fundraising for Macmillan in memory of her late dad Brian Norquoy - you can find her link here: www.justgiving.com/page/carrie-gunn-loch-ness
Well done all of you! 🤩
Well done all the Orkney Runners!
Ava Luke YOU SUPERSTAR!!!! 🥳
Well done everyone 👏
Great results from all the Orkney runners, well done. 👏👏👏.
Well done everyone
Well done
Participation League Final(ish) Standings
With final standings that resemble a Bundesliga title race, Mervyn Hourston clinched the OARC Senior participation league this weekend in some style, being the only athlete to improve on his 2025 time in the Dounby 10k despite the miserable conditions. Mervyn has completed every local race this season, with a whole host of PBs and personal course records, and is a worthy winner of this year's participation league and exactly what this award was set up to reward - improvement against your own milestones, rather than in competition with others.
Congratulations to Mervyn for winning the fourth annual award, which will be presented at the OARC Awards evening in the New Year. Well done too to Vikki Budge and Dawn Williams for your podium places - hopefully one of you can be our first female winner next year!
Final standings pending anything I've got wrong (probably still a few things, I have updated based on comments on the previous post. As ever, PBs need to be claimed although I don't think there will have been many in Dounby!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DrSdOCLAfWMtEozjQucMXeDOy9pctijof68071BCQrw/edit?gid=1471918355#g...
Congratulations Mervyn Hourston . Another trophy for the mantelpiece
Thanks for all the congrats, a Bucket List item happily ticked off 😀. I was sure that both Vikki B & Dawn W were ready to overtake if I had faltered with injury at the end 😟.
Well done Mervyn 👏🏼
Never in doubt, Mervyn! Great work, well done!
Well done Merv so well deserved.
Well done, Mervyn. Super dedicated! 🙌🏼🤩
Well done Mervyn Hourston 👏
Well Done Mervyn! 🤩🥳
Well done Mervyn 👍
Good luck to everyone to competing at Loch Ness Marathon and associated events this weekend! Craig and Carrie from our senior coaching team are both taking part, as well as a fair few others from Orkney including Shelagh Hutchison, Steph Davis, Amy Walker, Sheree Peace, Jocelyn Forster and Amy Sutcliffe. Both Amys are graduates of Carrie and Sarah's Couch to 5k programme - fantastic to see folk carrying on with the running.
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Loads of luck to you all!
We're now at the end of a busy 2026 outdoor season across track, field & road events. OARC have put on three open track competitions, plus JIC and six road races - four 10ks and two half marathons. We'd love to get feedback on them - both good stuff and things we can improve or try for the first time next year, which would help us as we plan the 2027 season over the winter.
We've put together two surveys - one for track and field, one for road races - and would love to have a lot of responses, whether this was your first competition season or your tenth. The surveys are relatively short, you could complete them in a couple of minutes although longer answers are definitely welcome too - and as an incentive, we will give at least one randomly selected person a free membership renewal next year (April) - and we'll add a couple more if we get enough responses to merit it. You can also submit the feedback anonymously, although obviously then we can't enter you into the draw!
Track and field survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRrjWL9sv_I2p3qRnauuMj63nDKFdw0Sax5iX_e_f-czLtmQ/viewform?usp=d...
Road race survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWpyR4hRwYvh-82fhNz2I38B9gt8r4CfRWP_AKhEldmQ7z_g/viewform?usp=d...
Please fill out whichever is more applicable - or both if both are. If you have any feedback which doesn't suit this format, please do feel free to message the page as well!
Thank you in advance for your help!
OARC 2026 Track & Field Competition Survey
docs.google.com
We will shortly start planning the 2027 track & field season, and would love feedback on what you (as an official, athlete or parent) want to see from our schedule, what worked well this season and wh...Hey, I think both links are for track and field events.
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As well as providing regular athletic instruction and training sessions, one of the key aims of OARC is to promote pathways to performance and as part of this, the Club organises and participates in a range of home and away competitions throughout the year.