Cosmic Medal Monday - 23rd March 2026
March 2026
There are lots to report this week, but first, just a word about celebrating and publicising our club.
When you enter an event, please make sure that you put down Cosmic Hillbashers as your club. This may mean that you need to edit your Entry Central / Webscorer / SI Entries / parkrun profile to add in Cosmics. For some, Cosmics is a 2nd claim club and they enter events under their primary club, but for others, it makes it easier to pick out your achievements to post on social media and the website. Also, please ensure that you are wearing your club kit for races and other events. It is always nice to be able to pick out your friends and team mates. We appreciate that there has been a bit of a problem sourcing club kit but this is being sorted and new kit is coming soon. For now, Membership Secretary, Rob Jobling, has a fair amount of kit in various sizes. Message him on Spond with your size and he will tell you what he's got.
Back to this week, Tuesday training with Ewen went ahead at Springfield Road. On Saturday, Tina McLeod and Shayne Lilith-Moon ran the Newburgh Beach Bash. It is a tough course and not just off road but on sand.
There were various parkruns ran on Saturday:
Aberdeen Beach - Rory McPherson
Ellon - Graeme Lornie
Crathes Castle - Lyndsay McEwan (as part of a longer run) and Linda Smith
Hazlehead - Ewen Rennie
Alan Cormack aced it by running from Carlisle to Newcastle along Hadrian's Wall (62 miles) starting on Friday morning and arriving in time to do the Leazes parkrun on Saturday morning.
Several Cosmics are working hard going long runs, training for various marathons. Kat Lancaster, who has the club place for London Marathon, did 20 miles along the Forth race for her training and Lyndsay McEwan, who is also running London Marathon and representing Alopecia UK, ran 17 miles along the Deeside Way.
On Sunday, Nicola Edward joined family members down south for the Alloa Half Marathon. The Cosmic Sunday run was Pressendye from Tarland. Unusually, we did an out and back along the ridge in order for various groups to meet at the Cairn on Pressendye. The timing more or less worked and at least this avoided the long final descent on the road. After the run, the sun came out for the Cosmic Easter Shenanigans organised by Gillian Clunas. I don't know what the locals thought as we made idiots of ourselves with egg & spoon (forwards and backwards), carrot & spoon, tossing the eggs (hard boiled luckily), decorating eggs and more. There were prizes and delicious home bakes and hot cross buns enjoyed with our coffee. Thank you very much Gillian for organising the fun.