March 11 2026
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Congratulations to Annabel Simpson for both her win at the Lindsay's Scottish 10k and her excellent fashion taste!
Well done also to Erika Marwick who also ran in the race, and to Elsie Hutchison, Lillie Giggle-Bain and Abi Coltherd who competed at the Linwood Season Opener over the weekend. No longer report this week, sorry - but there's a bumper edition coming this weekend!
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Look who's back in the Scotland vest Taylah Paterson! Congratulations.
Congratulations also to Tony Wesley of the Western Isles who competed in Orkney 2025 and our open graded competition last year in the build up.
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After three events in three weeks to open the season, I have an update to the Senior Athlete participation league: this is a competition we run every year for our senior athletes, with points scored in competition against your past self - for completing races, PBs and improvements on previous years. At the end of the year, there's a lovely trophy to win as well.
After three events, Mervyn Hourston is out in front with three races completed, two PBs, a SB and an improvement on a previous year. 2024 winner Mark Flett is second, with Rosemary Donaldson third ahead of a strong group on 8 points.
As ever, I do my best to collect PBs from Strava and the like but I will have missed things, so please do let us know if I've missed a PB or otherwise made an error and I'll correct the record.
Scoring and details are here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DrSdOCLAfWMtEozjQucMXeDOy9pctijof68071BCQrw/edit?gid=0#gid=0
The next chance to score points will be the OTE Kirkwall Half Marathon at the end of the month, for which entries are open now:
www.entrycentral.com/kirkwall
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Last night at training we were joined by Aaron Budge Photography for our Orkney Junior Inter-County team photo and captains announcement.
Last year's captains Jamie Sutherland & Emily McArthur officially handed over the (metaphorical) captains armbands to their successors, Lucy Kenyon and Gerard Enemmuo, picked by the coaches to lead the team this year. Congratulations to both, and to the 32 athletes selected and the 6 mascots who will lead the team out and carry kit on the day.
Thank you Aaron for capturing the announcement!
Your Uncle is proud of you 👏 🥰 .
Beautiful. Wishing you both a good tenure .
wow!!! Beautiful lucy 🙃✌️
Brilliant! Love the trousers xxx
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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.