Scottish Masters XC Championship 04/02/12

What a day! Amongst the worst conditions i've raced in (i even kept a hat on the whole race!) with at least one runner getting treatment for hypothermia afterwards but worth it to get my 1st Scottish medal ,bronze for 3rd M40.Felt strong all the way ,was in 5th position until the last lap where i managed to get away from Bog trotters Stevie Cairns.M4o winner and race winner Kerry Wilson finished just in front of Bobby Quinn (who won 1st M45) with 2nd M40 Kenny Richmond finishing 3rd.Knew id done enough to get bronze M40 by time i got to final straight and was pleased to finish 4th ,25 secs behind the overall leader.....i'ts starting to pay off after some serious training.No Davy Millar meant no chance of a team medal for Irvine but Alex Allardyce had a great run to finish 10th (7th M40).

Cross Country Season over for me....great way to finish

Scottish Masters Road Relay 29/01/12

As defending champs we had high hopes going into this race but things never go quite to plan! With David Millar pulling out at the last we were really up against it ,especially with Cambuslang fielding a very strong line up .After a last minute re-jigg Mark Livingstone stepped into the A team just weeks after his 40th birthday. On the first leg for Irvine Alex Allardyce got us off to a great start finishing 4th .Mark had a fine run on leg 2 to finish 5th before handing over to Tony McKnight, who had been nursing injuries in the weeks leading up to the race but still had a great run to keep us in 5th.I had a pretty good run clocking a time of 19.09 which was over a minute quicker than the year before and 6th fastest of the day.Out of the 5 faster than me 4 were 35+ with only one over 40 .Gave me a boost for the Scottish Masters the next week.....