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My name is Harry Baird and I stay in Stenhousemuir near Falkirk. I am married to Beth who is a Health Visitor, we have two kids, Emily 26 and Fraser 24, well we still call them our kids! I got involved with athletics fourteen years ago when Fraser joined Falkirk Vic’s. I  joined their committee … Continue reading Meet Harry our new Club Development Officer

Unfortunately tomorrow’s talk is cancelled due to illness. We’re delighted that former Olympian Freya Ross has offered to do a talk to club members at 7pm on evening of 11 March about race prep, training, diet and have a bit of a Q&A. The talk will last around an hour. It will take place at … Continue reading Freya Ross talk postponed!

Well done to all Corstorphine athletes competing in last week's Scottish Schools Athletic Association Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Glasgow Emirates. Georgia won O16G 1500m gold and 800m bronze – both with new indoor PBs. There were also new indoor PB’s: 1500m - David (O16B - 9th in final) & Olivia (U16G – … Continue reading CAAC continues to impress indoors

Congratulations to the Corstorphine men’s team of Moray Anderson, Ally Brockie, Malcolm Laing & Tom Ferrington who won silver in the 40/45 category at this weekend’s Lindsay's Scottish Athletics National Masters XC Championships at Johnstone.

My Dad, Fred Norwood, joined Corstorphine Athletics Club with me in January 1987, just after my 9th birthday. He would admit that he was never an outstanding runner himself, either in his prime for Queens University (Fred is the dashing young man third from the right in the second row) or for CAAC in his 50s, … Continue reading Fred Norwood

Please share & help spread the word about this fantastic opportunity. Closing Date: 21st February 2020 https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/vacancy/club-admin-development-officer-corstorphine-aac/

CAAC has been awarded £17,000 of National Lottery cash over the next four years thanks to sportscotland’s Direct Club Investment funding programme. CAAC will use the funding to employ a ‘Club Together Officer’ who will help improve our policies and procedures. This will help build sustainability in coaches, membership and partnerships. The role will also … Continue reading CAAC awarded lottery funding for Club Together Officer

It has been an amazing couple of weekends for CAAC. At Livingston CAAC performed well at the final race of the East District Cross Country League. Highlights include: Georgia (pictured with Katherine) Gold🥇U17W; David Silver 🥈 U17M and our Masters men’s team who won League gold 🥇for the third year in succession 🍾 Well done … Continue reading CAAC continues to excel

Some fantastic runs by members of CAAC at Saturday’s Inter District Cross Country Championships in exceedingly tough conditions at King’s Park in Stirling. Highlights include a superb senior men’s individual silver 🥈medal for Tom Martyn who finished the 8km race a mere second behind the winner Sean Chalmers (Scotland North/Inverness Harriers). Tom and 7th placed … Continue reading CAAC excels at Inter District XC Championships

In the first big event of the year Georgia Ledingham won U20 bronze🥉in the Scottish Indoor 3000m Champs with a new PB (10m 02). Big PBs also for Anthony Addison (8m 36), David Addison (8m 51), Emma Johnson (10m 48) and Stuart Livingston (8m 59). Well done all! 👏

Saturday 21 December 9am. There is just over 1 week until the annual running of the CAAC down'N'UP. At its core a festive social hurrah to the year, but also a fierce battle with conditions, friends, foes and sometimes hangovers.. If you haven't done it before, we will be meeting at the top of Kaimes … Continue reading CAAC Down ‘n’ Up

Congratulations to all Corstorphine Athletics Club runners at today’s #LindsaysXC Scottish Athletics East District XC Championships, Piperdam. Here are just some of the brilliant CAAC highlights: Senior Men (pictured) Team GOLD 🥇: Ewan Brown (4th), Tom Martyn (5th), Calum McKenzie (6th), Dougie Selman (8th), James Dunn (12th) & James Harrison (32nd) - 36pts ahead of … Continue reading Corstorphine storm the East District XC at Piperdam

Well done Georgia (7th), Mhairi (17th), Emma (31st) & Katherine (36th), U17 Women silver medallists in the Scottish Athletics #LindsaysXC Short Course at Kirkcaldy.

We welcomed Dave Hall back into the Scottish hills today, and having lived at altitude for the last 3 months and then supplemented that with a shot of adrenalin before leaving the house (read car batteries flat and running late). He charged off up to the Tinto summit with a fair lead over Tom then … Continue reading Tinto Hill Race

We first ran Murieston Trail Race ten years ago to coincide with Livingston Cricket Club Gala Day. It was fitting that today, on its tenth anniversary, we ran it on the same day as the gala for a second time. Congratulations to all the prize winners. The women's race was won by Catherine Ferry (Edinburgh … Continue reading The CAAC Murieston 6K

The final match of the 2019 season took place yesterday in familiar surroundings, at Grangemouth, as 2 of the previous 3 had. Corstorphine sat 6th in the table, leading Falkirk and Victoria Park by 8 points to 6 and 6 points with the bottom two to be relegated from the 8 team top division. Whilst that … Continue reading Scottish Athletics League Match 4

A hot and sunny day for this year's edition of Baddinsgill. As the race organiser reported the heat was brutal, but it was as wet and boggy as always! Zoe Harding took 3 minutes off the women's course record in a time of 1:46:36. Well done to all who took part. The results can be … Continue reading CAAC Baddinsgill Hill Race

Huge congratulations to Georgia Ledingham for setting a new U17W 1500m Steeplechase record of 4:55:32 and putting in the Championships Best Performance at the Scottish U17 national championships. Georgia took a massive 25:88 seconds off her time at this event last year. Mhairi Arnott achieved a brilliant bronze medal in the same race in 5:55:79. … Continue reading Georgia sets new Scottish record

Congratulations to Jules Barrable and Nicola Ross on winning the CAAC Short Hill Race Championship event last night at Caerketton. The men's was a closely contested battle with Finlay Ross, Jules and myself over the summit in close order. Jules descended well to win clearly. The woman's race was also closely contested with Nicola and … Continue reading CAAC Short Hill Race Championships

Nick, Susan, Gillian, Alan T and mysef (Dean) headed over to Harris to take part in the inaugural event of the Marathon Hebrides. Weather didn’t bode well on the crossing on friday a pretty rough crossing from Uig on Skye to Tarbet on Harris.  It was a pretty wet registration at the Talla na Mara … Continue reading Hebrides Marathon

You've done the CAAC 5 in June now it's time to hit the trails! Join us on Saturday the 7th of September at 11am at Livingston Cricket Club, Murieston the address can be found here. The inaugural Murieston 6K Trail Race took place on Saturday 10th September 2011. It was originally organised jointly by Corstorphine Athletics Club … Continue reading The CAAC Murieston 6K Trail Race

The 3rd and penultimate match of the 2019 Scottish Men’s League got underway at a hot and humid track in Aberdeen.  Once again this year the club laid on a coach for the long-haul journey north to our furthest match, but holidays and injuries resulted in a squad of only 9 athletes and 3 officials … Continue reading Scottish Athletics League Match 3

The Northumberland Coastal Run has been an annual event for me the last 6 years. It’s an amazing run along some of the most beautiful beaches in the English border country. This year I was injured and away on holiday so missed out on one of my favourite runs. Still there were plenty of CAACers … Continue reading Northumberland Coastal Run 2019

And before you know it, it’s all over. The legs are tired and not that willing anymore, but somehow you get yourself to that last race to get it all over and done with! Five races in 5 days is trying no doubt and finishing it gives you great sense of achievement. Well done CAAC … Continue reading Tour of Fife the final day

If memory serves me right the fourth day is the hardest. Your legs are tired, your spirits low and unless you have Capt’n Al nobody who manically bounces around to get you going! Your attitude tends to be ‘right let’s get this over and done with’. Then once you get going and you’ve turned back … Continue reading Tour of Fife day 4

Then there is the mile. An ‘easy’ one to rest the legs after an evening on the beach and one in the hills. It would be easy weren’t it for the fact that you’ve been up and down a big hill and your legs are tired. Added to that you are now also firmly obsessing … Continue reading Tour of Fife Day 3

Driving home I saw East Lomond hill bathed in sunshine. I felt a pang of guilt not going to support the CAAC ToF elite. However that hill is big and I wasn’t ever going to go all the way up there just to say well done keep going. If you haven’t been to Falkland then … Continue reading Tour of Fife Day 2

Today the Tour of Fife started. The beach race. One of my favourites so as I am little bit crocked at the moment I decided I shouldn’t run, but I should at least make to effort to see my CAAC team mates off on their first run. A walk on the beach helped spot Ally … Continue reading The Tour of Fife

After finishing 7th at Match 1, events resumed at Grangemouth Stadium with a hope that Corstorphine AAC could build on their first outing of the year.  There were more athletes taking part in the second match than the first: 222 vs. 176.  Our team grew by a handful of athletes too.John Ross, Janet Grigor and … Continue reading Scottish Athletics League Match 2

RESULTS Find the results of the 2019 edition of the CAAC 5 HERE. 2020 ENTRY DETAILS The CAAC 5 Road Race will be held early June 2020 the race will start at 7:30pm. Chip timing will be used and no on the night entries accepted. Race numbers and chips can be collected from 6.30pm on … Continue reading CAAC 5 – RESULTS

The Club Championships will be held on Saturday 25th May 2019 at Saughton Sports Enclosure and as with the last few years it will be followed by the annual club BBQ/picnic (food provided by the club) with all club members, family and friends invited to come along and join in the fun.You must register by … Continue reading Club Champs and BBQ this Saturday!

But first a thank you! A milestone moment in the history of Corstorphine Athletic Club passed in April when both president, Bryan Clark, and vice president, Keith Hood, stood down after holding these positions during a golden decade for the club. During that time the club has grown it membership handsomely and has enjoyed new … Continue reading Meet our new president and vice president

Our Scottish Athletics League season opened at Grangemouth yesterday with a few challenges.  Exams, British University Championships and Scottish Athletics 5km Road championships all took athletes (from each club) away from the track and field yesterday.Despite those competing commitments, we took 14 athletes and 3 officials to take part in 31 events.  We began with … Continue reading Scottish Athletics League Match 1

Well done CAAC men’s team of Calum Mckenzie, Ewan Brown & Dougie Selmann,?silver medallists in the Scottish 5K Champs (Silverknowes) and Moray Anderson, ?bronze medallist in the M40 event. Full story here.   Pics by Bobby Gavin Scottish Athletics

Spring has sprung and we’ve remembered that this is the time of year for the fun of the legendary CAAC Spring Handicap. Starting time is 7pm on the 7th of May. The route is around 10k, run on a 2 lap loop from Currie via Balerno. The route can be viewed here, (note its 2 … Continue reading CAAC Spring Handicap

Congratulations to all our prize winners and nominees! Junior Female Athlete of the Year: MHAIRI ARNOTTNominated: Olivia Clark & Georgia Ledingham Junior Male Athlete of the Year: BEN STRUTHERSNominated: David Addison & Rory Ledingham  Senior Female Athlete of the Year: JESSICA MacLEOD*Nominated: Fiona Carver & Susan Johnston Senior Male Athlete of the Year: JAMES HARRISON*Nominated: Graeme … Continue reading CAAC 2019 AWARDS