The Babcock Shettleston 10K is shaping up to be the strongest and possibly the fastest 10K in Scotland for many years. The first race in the Babcock Series takes place on the fast, flat and traffic free course on Glasgow Green on Sunday 10th May at 10.00am. The most recent entries include the Scottish Half Marathon champions from Inverness last Sunday, Annabel Simpson of Fife and Hamish Hickey of Central Region. Annabel triumphed in 73:52 and Hamish in 65:06 which suggests they are both rounding into fine form for the spring road races.
Meanwhile Shettleston’s Brogan Wallace ran even quicker in the Paris Half Marathon on the same day, clocking a personal best of 72:42 for eighth place in a high quality international field. Logan Rees of Fife, second last year is the quickest of seventeen leading Scots entered. He lost out to Wolverhampton’s Omar Ahmed who set a Babcock Series and course record of 29:06 last year. Those seventeen men which include Aberdeen’s Mark Abernethy on 29:06 have all run faster than 30:30.
In the women’s race Natasha Phillips from Dundee recently clocked a personal best of 32:33 for 10K upon her return to racing. She won on Glasgow Green last year in a series record of 32:48. She heads an impressive women’s field with nine runners faster than 36 minutes.
Any man faster than 30:30 or woman faster than 36 minutes can request a free entry by emailing John Mackay, the Race Director at j.mackay@ntlworld.com
We have nearly 1250 entries for the series already and almost 500 for the Shettleston race alone.
There are more than £6,000 in cash and Start Fitness prizes on offer across the three races and every series entrant will receive a specially designed More Mile Series t-shirt. Runners at each event will receive a specially minted medal and an item of Start Fitness merchandise. A reflective branded snap band at Shettleston, a branded snood or buff at Dumbarton and More Mile socks at Helensburgh.
Can’t make the series? Enter individual races below: