Congratulations to Andrew Wright who was the winner of our Run of the Month for October. He was primarily nominated for his superb run of 16:09 at the Giffordtown 5k, which broke his own V50 club record. He also managed the same feat at the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow, where he timed at 1:14:23. Andrew has also got November off to a fine start by breaking another club V50 record, this time at Lake Maggiore Marathon in Northern Italy where his time of 2:37:43, in 6th place overall eclipsed the previous mark set by Graeme Doig.

Elsewhere this month there have been a number of other great runs, starting on the first day of November when Judy Turner was the overall 1st female at the Kippen 5 Mile Trail Race, finishing in 39:15. Ewan Taylor had an excellent run at the Malaga Marathon, finishing as 2nd V45 and setting a new personal best of 2:40:02. In the Malaga Half Marathon, Peter Gibson finished in 1:25:39. Closer to home in Strathclyde Park, Barry Smith also set a new personal best time, of 34:32, at the Up and Running 10k event, where he finished 3rd overall.

The other nominees for Run of the Month came mostly from two Club Championship events, the Great Scottish Run and Giffordtown 5k. As well as Andrew’s run mentioned above, Luke McNeil also had a fantastic run in Glasgow, just missing his own club record in 1:11:16. Barry Smith set a PB of 1:16:08, as did Alexander McDonald with 1:25:41. Evie Menzies was also shortlisted for her time of 1:27:24 in what was her debut half marathon.

At the Giffordtown 5k, Andrew was joined on the ballot by Ed Norton who won the 1st V70 prize for his run of 22:00, Mary Western who won V60 in 22:59, and Lauren Bennet who ran a new personal best of 23:28. Other than these two races, Mark McLean was put forward for his run of 3:15:57 at the Chicago Marathon and Struan Ross was the final nominee for running the Derbi de las Aficiones 10k in Madrid in 36:53.

Well done to all. We look forward to seeing who will win the November vote, which will be the final name on our Run of the Year ballot!