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Thirty five years...is a long time to wait but Shettleston Harriers savoured the moment when they became the second only Scottish club to claim medals at the ERRA 12 stage Relay in Sutton Park, Birmingham this weekend. ESH are the only other Scottish club to claim medals. This event is the Premier Event in the UK Club Road Running season with clubs qualifying from their area events.  

It was a week of worry for the Shettleston Club  before the event  with injuries and illness to a number of their athletes but they managed to take a full strength team to the Birmingham event . Even flight disruption for two of their athletes was  easily resolved. 25 club members made the trip south ensuring the team had support through out the race.  

A warm spring day greeted the athletes in the excellent Sutton Park venue. Missing the medals by one second last year motivated the athletes and illness to club stalwart Bill Scally made them even more determined to make no mistakes this year and bring back a  medal to Scotland. Allan Adams echoed the team when he asked for the effort for Bill. 

Leg 1.  Tsegai Tewelde, in his first race for a number of months due to surgery to remove shrapnel resulting  from a land mine accident in his native Eritrea, gave the club the perfect start moving from 10th to 4th in the final mile - his time was 26.08 (8th fastest). Matthew Barnes (Altrincham & District) had the honour of leading the teams home in 26.02.

Leg 2 . Martin Graham had spent the previous week nursing a hamstring problem but put himself on the line to run 15.05 and hold the club in 7th position, less than a minute behind the leaders. 

Leg 3.  European Cross Country UK Junior Team medallist Matthew Gillespie had an outstanding run to put the club into the lead recording a fast 26.38 and confirming his immense talent. 

Leg 4.  Saw a bit of a drama for the club as Michael Gillespie took a heavy fall round Keepers Pond with less than a mile to go. Picking himself up covered in blood he recovered quickly to hold onto 2nd position in 15. 12 only four seconds behind James Shane of Newham & EB. 

Leg 5.  Tewelderberhan Mengisteab regained the lead for Shettleston with 26.35 but the teams who were going to be in the medal hunt had started to mount their challenges just behind. 

Leg 6. Running his first ever 12 stage relay first year junior Lachlan Oates looked the calmest person in the Shettleston squad as he set off in the lead. What an experience for this young athlete and this will only help in his development. His time of 15.17 made sure he was in the top 10 fastest times of his leg, just being  overtaken in the last few strides of the leg.  At this stage Shettleston were 1minute ahead of their last year time and a club record was looking possible, but a few more dramas were still to occur.  

Leg 7. Jethro Lennox in his final preparations for the London Marathon set off just behind Mark Warmby of Newham & EB. This was when the race for Gold started and it was the last time any team were close to Newham. Suffering from his fast start trying to hold onto Warmby, Jethro slowed to 27.30 but kept Shettleston in the hunt in fourth position just behind Tipton.  

Leg 8. Keepers Pond appeared to be the area of drama for a few clubs and so it was again for Shettleston. Intensive physiotherapy from Iain Reid of Cambuslang Harriers in the week before the race got Allan Adams to the start line for Shettleston. He quickly moved into second position, just ahead of Ben Gamble of Tipton Harriers who was involved in the exciting finish with Paul Sorrie on leg 12 the previous year to finish one second ahead of the Shettleston man. With less than a mile to go Allan's calf went into spasm and he was reduced to a jog for 200m .The Tipton athlete took full advantage to pull clear leaving Allan to battle to the finish line in 15.13 and 3rd position. 

Leg 9.Tsegezab Woldemichael who the previous month had broken the records at the Alloa 1/2 Marathon and the Tom Scott 10, raced away to try and bridge the gap. Newham and Tipton now played their ace runners with Moumin Geele of Newham recording the fasted long leg of the day 25.37 and Phil Nicholls of Tipton running a fast 26.07. Perhaps pushing the pace too early, Tsegezab faded to 27.00 but held onto 3rd. 

Leg 10. Another doubt until earlier in the week, Thomas Fay recorded 15.19 to show he has recovered from injury which had kept him out of the Shettleston winning six -stage Scottish Relay team. By this point of the race the medals looked set as Newham -Gold , Tipton -Silver ,Shettleston -Bronze. 

Leg 11. After being anaemic and suffering from chicken pox, Amanuel Hagos has started to put the training in that has seen him run close to 29mins for 10km since living in Scotland. His time of 27.06 was run in total isolation and cemented the club's bronze medal position.   

Leg 12 Paul Sorrie had the luxury of an incident free run this year, after the drama and ultimate disappointment of last year's close finish. This year the club were delighted to secure the bronze, with Paul recording the 5th fasted time for the leg in 14.58. 

Shettleston would like to thank Achilles Heel Sports for their support in supplying kit for the club and of course to the supporters who made the long journey to Birmingham. The hardest job of the day was Adam Lee who was the reserve with 12 warms up just in case!  and Elaine Mackay who made sure the athletes got to the start  on time! 

 Congratulations to Newham and Tipton, and we look forward to next year. 

Results 1^st- Newham & EB  4.09.12

             2nd -Tipton Harriers  4.11.26

             3^rd- Shettleston Harriers 4.12.01 

 It was an excellent weekend for Scottish athletics with anglos Bruce Raeside (Notts AC) running the fasted short leg (14.01) and Stephanie Twell (Aldershot Farnham & Dist AC ) recording 15.22 - the fastest leg in the female six stage relay which took place alongside the men's event.

 Full Results    Photos by Jethro