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OARC athletes competed in two events in Aberdeen this weekend: yesterday’s half marathon and today’s Aberdeen Amateur Athletics Club Summer OGM.
In the half marathon, Karen Petrie picked up a more than fifteen minute personal best, crossing the line in a chip time of 02:16:02. Karen was part of Carrie & Sarah’s original Couch to 5k group so to see her continuing to run long distances faster and faster is a fantastic thing. I’m told she did run in an Orkney vest but the pictures in the finishers t-shirt look better! Other OARC finishers that I can find (the results don’t have a club search option so please shout if I missed you!) included Laura Baker in 01:52:02, Rosemary Donaldson in 01:48:25 and Hamish Shaw in 01:42:28
Today’s track & field meet was a windy affair without a lot of potential for legal perfomances. Long jump is also a wind gauged event, so it was great timing for Dillon Hume that the wind settled right down for his longest jump of the day, 5.58m representing a 40cm personal best and a reward for hard work in training. We have a real batch of talented long jumpers now developing under the watchful eye of Lyle, Kerri & Steven and that’s fantastic to see.
In the sprints, times were not wind legal but seriously impressive: Sian Smith ran a tenth inside her personal best in 12.42s over 100m and four tenths inside her best over 200m, clocking 26.07s, showing some fantastic form ahead of hopefully calmer days ahead! Max Tulloch was also competing over 100m and 200m, continuing his friendly rivalry with Kian Redman of Shetland: the two finished neck and neck in both events. In the 100m, Max’s time of 10.92s is not only his first time under 11s but the fastest time I’m aware of by an Orkney athlete in any conditions - I know Neil Gray ran a 10.98 with the wind in 2006, but if anyone can top that, let me know! We don’t have wind assisted records or anything like that, but it’s always interesting to keep track. Over 200m, Max’s 22.55s finish was again well inside his personal best.
Well done to everyone traveling to compete and please keep us up to date on how you get on!
Here's the video of Max's 100m.
Yes 💪🙌 Well done ⭐️
The best end to the best week.
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Senior Participation League Standings Update
With the results of St Magnus Marathon in, we have updated participation league standings, with Mervyn Hourston stretching his lead by picking up the maximum six points - one extra for the full marathon distance, one for improving on 2024 and one for an excellent PB. Last year's winner Mark Flett also picked up the maximum of six to move up into the close race for second with Vikki Budge.
There are four races left to score points: Stromness & Dounby 10ks and Kirkwall Sunnybank & Harray Half Marathons. Entries for Stromness are open until this Sunday at www.entrycentral.com/stromness10k so get your names in!
As ever PBs are based on Strava or my own knowledge so please point out any errors or anything missing! Full standings are here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DrSdOCLAfWMtEozjQucMXeDOy9pctijof68071BCQrw/
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Yesterday we sent invitations to join our primary training group to a large number of people on the primary waiting list. If you have a young person on the waiting list, please check your emails! If you haven't had one, it's a long waiting list and we've not been able to offer everyone immediately. Further offers will be made if places are declined.
It's worth noting for parents of those going into P7 in August that the club is heavily oversubscribed in this year group: after the current intake we will have 30 P7s which is the most we can reasonably handle (having too many from one year group creates big issues with the transition to secondary and just the logistics of training). Places for this year group will be offered on a "one out, one in" basis.
One year ago today. Were you there? Island Games Athletics are posting all the events as they happened a year ago today, starting with *that* Monday - one gold, two silvers and a bronze for Taylah Paterson, Calum Elder, Emily McArthur & Thora Cant. Honestly I don't I touched the floor walking home, how was it for you?
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All the feels tonight watching it back 🥹 what a team 💪🏼💫
It was an awesome evenings work by the team! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
What a time to be alive! If ever I need a boost or want to cheer up a dull day, then I scroll back to July 2025 on my phone pictures. Works every. single. time. ❤️
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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.