First up as always was the S1 girls or D girls event which would have had a handful of younger S2s in the race too. Peggy-Nan finished in 41st position, the highest ever finish from a girl at SGG. The course was hilly and muddy but Peggy-Nan, Abbey Hart 98th, Ameilia 99th and Kerry 116th all managed to put in great performances. This resulted in the school finishing a respectable 13th position in the team event.
In the C Girls race Shona started very quickly which caught up with her towards the end of the race. She still maintained her full effort and this resulted in her finishing higher up than last years performance. Shona was 66th and will go again next year in the same race.
Robaidh Whyte fresh from his 3rd place finish at the Glasgow Schools Championships put in an even better performance at the Scottish. Robaidh finished 40th which is our highest ever boys finish. His performance was very strong throughout the race on a tough course, on his second lap he was able to pick up the pace when other people were struggling which is not an easy thing to do. Patrick Connor put in a much improved performance from the Glasgow Schools to finish in 73rd in the same race.
Amy Craig improved on last year's performance to finish 63rd. She should be pleased at this result having put together a busy race schedule over the weeks leading up to the race it was pleasing to see her finish the cross country season with her best performance of the winter.
Andrew Carey, Findlay Dickson and Ruairidh Harris all lined up for the B boys and all finished inside the top 100. Andrew was suffering badly during the race but kept going regardless, he at least kept his spikes on for this event. He finished in 74th position with Findlay having a brilliant race to finish just two places behind in 76th. Ruairidh Harris was experiencing cross country for only the second time at this event and put in a good shift to finish 99th which was inside his target of top 100.
Well done to all our competitors.
