What a great ending to the Borders League 2023/24 season. As a club we went into Sunday’s final fixture with healthy leads in the Men’s senior division one and Men’s vet division; we had a chance to do the treble by picking up the Women’s vet title!

For the men it was just making sure we didn’t produce the biggest bottle job in BL history. Thankfully the chaps got their counters in and put in a professional performance to bring home the titles, with 4th (senior) and 5th (vets) on the day finishes securing the men’s double.

This was the first men’s senior title since that famous 2018/19 season when we won the lot, and a first men’s vets title since the curtailed 2019-20 covid season.

Our Women vets on the other hand had it all to play for. After a couple of big performances at race 3 and 4, we went into the final fixture with a chance. We started the day second with a 23 point gap to close.

Not only was the gap closed, but a quite remarkable effort saw us taking the title with a gap of 38 to second place. A 61 point swing. Our women vets won the day too, with all four counters in before any other team had two home!! Quite remarkable, indeed.

This is a first women’s vet title since the aforementioned 2018/19 quad season.

Our Senior ladies also had a good day. The ladies won the division one title last season, but couldn’t repeat. Deeside ladies have just been relentless this season. Congratulations to them on an impressive season and much deserved title.

The final race of our title defence saw us picking up a victory in the day. A reminder of what we’re capable of and something to build on for 2024/25.

Well done to the 27 Buckley runners who ran Hoylake on Sunday, and to all 57 members who proudly represented our club in at least one of the six races this season.

Here are our full results from Sunday –

Pos – gender pos – name – time – cat – cat pos
11 11 David WHITE 25:06 SM 11
19 18 Chris MYLES 25:57 SM 15
24 23 Elliot COX 26:27 SM 19
30 29 Sean TRUETT 26:40 SM 23
48 47 David BRILLEY 27:28 SM 31
51 50 Liam ROGAN 27:39 MV40 9
53 52 Simon ROBERTS 27:42 MV50 2
59 58 Jez BROWN 28:01 MV50 4
71 3 Tracy ROGERS 28:38 FV35 1
83 78 Gerard COLEMAN 29:00 SM 45
87 81 Simon MARA 29:16 MV40 15
92 85 Eddie DAVIES 29:27 MV55 2
96 9 Caroline HARDIE 29:37 FV35 2
107 10 Jennifer RAMBALDI 30:03 FV35 3
141 120 Charles BARTON 31:50 SM 53
148 25 Jane DOUGHTON 32:04 FV45 3
193 160 David WOODLEY 33:41 MV50 24
204 39 Gwennan HENSTOCK 34:13 FV45 7
225 178 Jamie LEWIS 35:01 MV40 26
230 48 Amanda MOUNTFORD 35:09 SF 12
235 50 Eleanor FRANCIS 35:24 FV35 11
237 51 Margaret LUDDEN 35:26 FV60 1
274 74 Amanda BOYD-EDWARDS 38:05 FV40 14
285 206 Owen WHITLEY 38:44 SM 70
287 80 Sian MEIRION 38:52 FV50 12
314 220 Les COATHUP 41:05 MV70 6
360 128 Nicole VAN DEN WITTENBOER 51:26 FV55 11