Fraserburgh 10km

We had a great time at the Fraserburgh 10km with over 20 of group taking part. Especially well done to Alice Hastie who completed her first 10km. Thanks to Trevor for taking most of photographs. To see all photographs simply click here

Peterhead Running Festival!!

The Peterhead Running Festival & Fun Day will take place on Sunday, September 11 at Catto Park playing fields and running track. Building on the success of last year’s Peterhead Half Marathon, and with the support from Shell as the main sponsor, this year’s event will include the Shell 5K race, jog or walk and the Shell School Fun Runs- in partnership with Active School. The festival hopes to attract 100s of schools kids hopefully to Peterhead's first every running festival , all competitors will be electronically time by Leisurelend, and receive a specially designed Peterhead Running Festival & Fun Day medal, as well as all the children receiving goodie bags from Shell. Also, the school with the greatest percentage of pupils per head of school roll taking part on the day will receive a £200 cheque to spend on Sports Equipment. All parents/guardians must complete and return an entry form to your school by Friday, September 2 to enter the running festival. All pupils entering the Shell School Fun Runs must be accompanied to the event by a responsible adult. So get your kids school involved please. You know me i have a passion for getting kids active!! We are really excited about bringing this new running festival to this area, and we would like to thank Shell for their financial support and enthusiasm in planning this event. All profits from the day will go to Scottish Spina Bifida Association”. So far planned for the day is the • Shell School Fun Runs- in partnership with Active School this free event will be open all primary and secondary people from the Peterhead area. • Shell 5km and Fun Run, Jog or Walk enter online here • Peterhead Half Marathon enter online here • Small Marquee with lot of eats/tea and coffees etc. • Children’s play area- bouncy castle/face painting etc. • Health and Activity Fair in a large marquee giving lots health and advice to encourage to you get more active. • Waves Radio live broadcast, We now have entry forms for the Shell 5km and Peterhead Half Marathon and all the schools in our area will be issued forms through Active Schools in next few weeks. Please put this date in your diary it promises to a great day for all the family.

Leah Royal Wedding Fun & The Big 50 Challenge

Thanks to every one who helped in our efforts to raise money for the Leah Ligertwood Appeal with your help we raised the terrific sum of £2525 which was just fantastc. Leah was along last week to get her photograph taken with our big cheque. Thanks for all your support to raising funds for this wonderful little girl.

Invitation to the Opening of the Scottish Parliament

Every heard of the Riding of the New Parliament?? To be honest either had i, but on Friday 1st July Roselyn and I have been invited down to the Opening of the Scottish Parliament and to take part in the Riding (a procession down the Royal Mile to Hollyrood. In our invite it states " Stewart Stevenson (our local MP) has been impressed by what you’ve done in Peterhead for the local community and hopes you will agree to take part in the riding, representing JogScotland, Peterhead and Buchan". Roselyn and I really honoured and looking forward to representing Jogscotland at this wonderful occasion. However i must emphasis we are only a small part of a great team who makes it all possible. Thanks to everyone of you for your support we love being part of Peterhead Jogscotland, and the wonderful friends we have made through it. Click here for a list of groups which took part in 2007 i am sure you will be impressed, and it makes us even more excited about going. Hope i can take my camera ha ha

Baker Hughes 10km

I was really proud of our club at the Baker Hughes 10km in Aberdeen last Sunday. When i counted up we had over 70 members taking part which was just fantastic. A special word about our elder statesman Sandy Hastie who now is the big 60!!(Sandy please forgive me for mentioning your age!!) Sandy completed the 10km in 41 mins 25 secs. and finished in 161 place, out nearly 4000 runners. Sandy has now signed up for London Marathon next year along with his daughter Angela. Sandy we are really proud of you at Peterhead Jogscotland, you are a real inspiration to us all!! To see all results of Baker Hughes 10km simply click here To see all photographs simply click here

The Big 50 (Miles) Challenge

Ever since i went to work at Technip at Westhill Aberdeen nearly 10 years ago i have had people saying to me when they know i stay in Peterhead "you drive that distance every day thats not real". Its always been an ambition of mine to say to just one person " Well actually i haven't only driven there, i've run it as well". So last Sunday along with Ros my wife, daughter Steph and 12 other friends at Peterhead Jogscotland we took on the challenge to do just that run all the way home!! We left Peterhead on Sunday morning at 7am by mini-bus and drove to Westhill arriving at 8am and we started the long run home at approximately 8.15 after getting our photograph taken by the Security Guard at Technip who must have thought we had lost the plot- and he probably wasn't far wrong1!!! ha ha. Our route took us from Westhill to Blackburn Roundabout at the A96, through the village of Blackburn and onto Hatton of Fintry, the back road to Newmachar past Newmachar Golf Course. At Newmachar we went onto the Formartine and Buchan Walkway, which eventually 6 hrs later would take us all the way to Peterhead via Udny, Ellon, Auchnagatt, Maud, Mintlaw and Longside!! When we left Westhill the weather was quite foggy but we didn't mind a bit as it kept us quite cool, and visibility was still quite good which was all important till we got onto the Fomartine/ Buchan Walkway as we were most of the time running on country roads. At about 10am the fog lifted and the day turned out really hot, and we were really gratefull to our back up team of Stewart Strachan, Andy Davidson and Marshall Birnie in the van (who took turns at running as well as driving) who kept us fed and watered along the route.If it hadn't been for their efforts i think the outcome could have been very different. Our main stopping place during the challenge was at Ellon (22 miles into the run) where we stopped for about 30 mins to take in food as well as the usual drinks (no alcohol i must add ha ha). When we stopped at Ellon Leah and her wonderful family were there to support us, and this in turn gave us a great boost!! The most challenging bit of the route we all agreed was the 7 miles from Ellon to Auchnagatt, on that part of the route there was very little access points for the mini-bus, as a result by the time we got to Auchnagatt we were all beginning to get a bit dehydrated/weary it was so warm, and we were really grateful to Andy who met us about 1km out and gave us some water to keep us going till we got to Auchnagatt!! At Auchnagatt as well as the 15 of us who started the challenge, we were joined by Margaret, Jennifer and Bonnie who run with us all the way to Peterhead which was 18 miles, which in itself was a great achievement. After Auchnagatt our next leg took us to Maud Station and although it wasnt in our plans it was great to stop over for about a 15 mins to regroup again, we were also joined by the Press and Journal photographer who took our photo. At Mintlaw we were met by Elaine Weir, Elaine Lemon, Marilyn, Katrina, Debra and Valerie which was just great and spured us on to the end, we were also joined by 4 younger joggers along the route Cameron, Shelly and Ewan and all did magic as well. We finally arrived at Catto Park Pavilion Peterhead at 6.15pm 10 hrs after we left Westhill. After 10 years at Technip i have finally completed my ambition to "RUN All THE WAY HAME TO PETERHEID WHAT A FANTASTIC FEELING IT WAS"!!! A week later i am still waiting for that sentence " You drive that distance every day" -you know what my reply will be!!!!! ha ha. It didnt start off as a sponsored event until i learned about and met Leah Ligertwood. Leah was born 2 years ago with Celebral Palsy and is off to the USA in August for a major operation which will hopefully give her full use of her legs. I only met Leah a few weeks ago at a wedding in which she was the flower girl, but from that moment i just knew i had to try and support the family as her operation is costing £40,000 which the family have to pay for themselves. With the generous donation of colleagues at work we are hoping to have raised about £1300 for the family. I know a lot of you have made donations to the appeal already and came along to support our Leahs Royal Wedding Fun Run last week, and we really appreciate your support which was just fantastic!! As i approach my Big 50th birthday (i know you dont believe it!!) I hope our Big 50 (Miles) Challenge will inspire YOU some of you to go that "extra mile" when getting more active through jogging. I never started jogging till i was nearly 40, i never dreamed I would complete a Half Marathon let alone a 50 mile run in one day, just shows you what you/we can achieve if you are willing to put in the effort. All the leaders at Peterhead Jogscotland are committed to help you each and everyone of you achieve your goal whatever that maybe a 3,5 or 10km or even a London or New York Marathon we promise we will help you to achieve that goal, as so many of our members have at Peterhead Jogscotland over the last few years!!. Remember if you have any questions or queries just ask, we cant help you if we dont know!!!! To see all photographs from THE BIG 50 (MILES) CHALLENGE simply click here

Run Balmoral 2011

What a great time we had at Run Balmoral on Saturday, we had over 70 members of all ages taking part, everyone did fantastic, and we had a great day out Even though are main goal is to get our community active and always will be. It was just great to see some of our younger members do really doing well in Secondary school 2.5 km race Ewan Calder, James Weir and Paul Kane were all in the top 13 out of field of nearly 200, and Shelly Duncan was first in the girls race in a time of 8 mins 37 secs. It doesnt matter where you finished in the Balmoral Runs on Saturday we proud of you all, i hope you enjoyed the day as much as i did!! To see all the photograph of the day simply click here