All Events
The 2025 season will be a little different with the International Island Games taking place between 13th-18th July in Orkney: much of our home schedule is structured around giving athletes the most possible chances to achieve qualifying standards and prepare for this event, with a lot of events early in the year as a result. The games also mean that the Stromness Shopping Week 10k and St. Magnus Marathon are both taking a year off due to demands on organisers’ time.
We also include regional and national events that we think will be of interest to our members, but these are non-OARC organised events and information may not be fully up to date. Scottish Athletics maintain an event calendar which will be more up to date for their events: https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/championship-events/
| Starlings Open Graded Track and Field Competition & W. Hourston Kirkwall 10k | May 18, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Edinburgh Marathon Festival | May 24, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Junior Inter-County, Shetland (Club Trip) | June 7, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Scottish Schools Outdoor Championships, Grangemouth (club trip sponsored by EDJ Advisory) | June 13, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Grooves Track and Field Championships (w/5000m) | August 31, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Harray Half Marathon (non-OARC) | September 14, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Dounby Pharmacy 10k | September 21, 2025 | READ MORE |
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🔥🌊ISLAND GAMES TEAM BONDING🌊🔥
We had the best time at Inganess this evening, thanks to Orkney Hot Tubs. Sea swimming, saunas and sausages! Hazel was the most incredible host and cook and we hugely appreciated it.
18 days to go!❤️💛💙
📸Big thanks to Kirstin Shearer Photography
So excited! 💙❤️
What a great idea! 😄
🏃🏻♂️FANTASTIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR COLIN🏃🏻♂️
Yesterday, Colin Barnett took to the start line of one of the UK’s most iconic fixtures in the ultra-running calendar - the 39th running of the West Highland Way Race.
Two hundred and Fifty runners set off at 1 am from Milngavie railway station, just north of Glasgow, with the goal of reaching Fort William 95 miles later, within the 35-hour time limit.
Colin completed the run in 21:08:33, placing 14th overall and 4th in the V40 age category. Well done, Colin!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Super fit, a very tough run, congratulations.
Amazing Colin 👏🏻 what a fantastic achievement x
Congratulations Colin....good for you!!
Amazing Colin! Huge congratulations to you! X
Very well done!
Amazing Colin, huge achievement 🤩
Fantastic, well done 👏 some effort!
Great achievement Colin, well done!
Well done Colin...great effort! 👍👍
Amazing Colin! Well done 👏
Wow that is brilliant Colin 🤩
Yay! That's fantastic Colin. Well done! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Well done Colin!
Well done Colin!
Amazing achievement 🙌
Wow well done Colin! 🤩
Super proud, what an achievement 🏃👏
Utter madness but amazing achievement nevertheless x
Congratulations Colin fantastic achievement. Xxx
Fantastic effort Colin, finishing 14 out of 250 runners is some achievement!!
Congratulations Colin! 👏🏅
Well done Colin 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🤩
Fantastic, huge well done Colin! 🤩💪🏻 x
Absolutely fantastic Colin 🥳
Well done Colin
📸KEVIN JONES’ JIC PHOTOS NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW AND ORDER📸
Kevin put a serious shift in over JIC weekend once again and has captured the atmosphere brilliantly. Be sure to order any photos you are keen to keep, as that makes all of the time and effort he put in worthwhile.
📸SCOTTISH SCHOOLS OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025 DAY 2 PHOTOS📸
Great photos for them all to look back on.
🏴SCOTTISH SCHOOLS OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025 DAY 2🏴
What a difference a day makes! From blue skies and temperatures of 22 degrees…to torrential rain, thunder and lightning! The competition was stopped for a while, due to safety concerns with the lightning, but it eventually dried and brightened up later.
Louise Gilmour was first out into the rain for her U15 long jump event. With a huge group of girls, there was a very long wait in between jumps and the conditions were very challenging for her first Scottish competition. Louise did well and jumped 3.84m.
Jenna Scott was jumping inside at the same time in the U20 age group. Having equalled her PB of 1.55m in Shetland last weekend, we knew Jenna was in great form. The last minute move inside unsettled the girls, and PBs were hard to come by, but we were delighted for Jenna when she picked up her first national medal of bronze🥉✨ with a first time clearance of 1.40m.
Next, Nuala Webb took to the track for her first 300m race. The 200m wasn’t open to the U15 girls at this event, so it was great to see Nuala take on a new distance. She ran 46.47.
Emily McArthur had her first run out of the competition in the U20 400m heats. She entirely dominated her heat and qualified comfortably for the final. Later in the day she was back out in the race for medals. Emily kept Annie McLean in reach for the first 300m and Annie just pulled away slightly in the last 100m, but Emily finished strongly to take silver🥈✨ in 58.12.
Elsie Hutchison was still buzzing from her PB in the 1500m the day before, when she stood on the line for her 800m. With some athlete withdrawals, it went to a straight final and it was a fast race. Elsie ran well and finished in 2:41.16.
Jamie Sutherland had the longest wait to get on the field. He and Max Linklater had to wait until the pool the rain had left was sponged off the runway. It was worth the wait for Jamie though, as he threw really well. He was very composed and confident and sent the javelin out over 45m for the third competition in a row, with a best on the day of 45.23m and a brilliant gold🥇✨. Max did well, too, taking silver🥈✨ with a throw of 36.41m, to add to his silver from high jump the day before.
For Emily, Jamie, Lucy and Max, this was their last Scottish Schools competition. All four athletes have performed outstandingly in their time at school, with all of them going on to represent Scotland. We are exceptionally proud of them and their achievements and we are grateful to everyone at OARC who has helped them on that journey, as well as the SSAA. Here are their medal records for Scottish Schools events:
⭐️Emily 🥈🥈and SIAB 2024
⭐️Jamie 🥇🥈and SIAB 2023
⭐️Lucy 🥇🥇🥉🥉and SIAB 2023
⭐️Max 🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈and SIAB 2023
Thank you to all of the coaches who helped the athletes to prepare for this competition. Huge shout out to Mags for making the last minute journey down to support the athletes - it made all the difference. Thanks to Nicola for coming with us and encouraging everyone, and for keeping me awake on the journey! Thanks to our extremely generous sponsors, EDJ NorthLink FerrieshLink Ferries. Thank you to everyone at SSAA and all the volunteers for a great event in very challenging conditions. Thank you to Jess Glynne for the after party😉. Finally, thanks to our brilliant athletes for being fabulous!❤️
Well done to all 👏 #ProudSponsors
Great achievements by you all! Well done and huge thanks to everyone who made the trip possible and have given up their time to allow the athletes this opportunity. You are all fabulous and much appreciated!😊🌟🎉👏
Well done everyone taking part, and supporting the athletes. This highlights the quality of training and support from OARC. Wonderful to have it recognised with sponsorship as well. 🎉
Efforts and successes. Very well done everyone 👏👏👏
Such opportunities for all of you! Well done everyone involved 😁🎉🌟
Well done to everyone and all that work so hard behind the scenes 🤩👏
Brilliant, well done All and OARC 💪👏
Thankyou to everyone involved, giving Orkney athletes such encouragement and opportunities off island, so very much appreciated and well done to the superb athletes themselves⭐️😊
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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.