Linton misses out on Big Apple marathon time

Nov 7 2008 by Our Correspondent, Perthshire Advertiser Friday

LINTON Scarborough competed in the New York City Marathon after his long Atlantic crossing.

After battling a 10mph headwind for the first 13 miles – and an uphill finish – he completed the 26.2-mile race and cruelly missed out on his hoped for time by just 2m 53s to finish in 3:02:53.

Last Sunday’s cold bright weather was ideal for running and consequently over 300 people contested the annual Templeton Woods 10-mile road race on the outskirts of Dundee.

The tough race was the last in the Perth Road Runners’ 2008 championship and 25 of them competed in the event.

On the day, Derek Phillips led the Perth men home in 1:04:19 followed by Stephen Ferguson in 1:05:37 and Derek McIntosh in 1:05:54.

Bob Brown (1:14:11) picked up the award for the first over-60 male to add to the one he won at the Aviemore Half-Marathon two weeks ago.

Amy Greig (1:17:51) was the first Perth lady home, followed by Angela Park (1:18:35) and Fiona Manson (1:24:15), which gave them the first female team prize.

There’s still an outside chance that somebody could do a late marathon but this is unlikely to change the provisional results of the club championship which show Neil Muir as the winner with Bernt Cederstrom in second place and Bill Lawson in third.

Fiona Angus, last year’s winner, took the runners-up spot and after a year of sheer hard work and dedication a delighted Julie King took third place.

It’s less than a year since members Bernt and Susan Cederstrom got married and moved to live in Dunfermline.

Whilst Bernt has taken second place in the Perth championship, Susan has just become the Carnegie 2008 female road race champion.

The new 2008 club male champion Neil Muir, along with fellow member and wife Veronica, took their grandchildren out to test their fitness to be future members.

They all attended the Cairnie Fruit Farm 1k novice race where the children loved running in the dark with torches.

The result was Ciaran Muir, aged eight months, 9:57 (with a bit of help from Uncle Brian), big brother Christian, aged three, 10:30 and cousin Rachel Provan, also three, 10:35. Get the membership forms ready!