Joanna Wilson and Andrew Smith won the Winter GP outright with Kristin Lownie and Mary Western, Paul Kieran and Steven King second and third in the ladies’ and men’s competitions respectively.

Fabienne Thompson and Mark Western took the over-40 trophies, Morna Fleming and John Hynd the over-50s and a total of 19 members completed the six qualifying races in the series.

In the All Rounder competition, which requires the completion of at least two races in each of the road, cross-country and hill-running Grands Prix, Karen Forsyth and Barry Davie received the senior awards.

Thompson and Melanie Sinclair (tied) and Steven King took the over-40s titles, Isobel Burnett and Allan Brannigan the over-50s, Bill Duff the over-60 and a special mention to Bill Fairley, who received the inaugural trophy for the over-70 age group.

Ladies’ champ Wilson had a spectacular winter season during which she clocked up the miles in preparation for next week’s 53-mile Highland Fling and the 55-mile Cateran Trail in May, both to raise money for Cancer Research in memory of her late mother.

She showed her strength at the Glencoe Marathon at the beginning of October, where she was seventh senior.

And at the first meet of the East District Cross Country League in Stirling, she set the pattern when she finished first Carnegie lady.

Wilson was fifth at the Lasswade Open Cross Country Race, 44th at the National Short Course Championships at Bellahouston, 21st senior at Braid Hills Open Cross Country race in Edinburgh, 17th in the second meet of the cross country league at Alloa and 1st FS in the Moncrieffe Hill Trail Race near Perth.

In the East District Cross Country Championships at Dundee, she was first Carnegie lady and 28th and she was again first lady and then 7th overall in the Festive Forest Run.

The final meet of the cross country league at Broxburn saw her finish 21st which ensured she could not be beaten for the Winter Grand Prix title having taken a perfect 500 points from the six races.

Wilson kept going, with 11th at the Falkirk parkrun, 27th and 2nd FS at the Kirkintilloch Olympians 12.5k road race and at the Harriers’ Devilla Forest 15k trail race, she won and ran a record time of 1:02:29.

In the National Cross Country Championships, she was 61st and into March she finished fifth in the Smokies 10 mile ladies only road race – the first time she did not prevail over all her team-mates, with Lownie ahead of her.

A return to form at the Gartmorn 6 Multi-Terrain race at Sauchie saw her finish in 22nd place overall to take 1st FS and she then won the D33 33-mile Ultra run in Aberdeen.

The next day she set a PB of 1:29:28 in the Alloa Half Marathon, crossing the line as 25th female.

All the hard training paid off. In the first race of the Summer Grand Prix, the Tay Ten at Perth, Wilson was 11th female and 5th senior.

Now less than a week until the Highland Fling from Milngavie to Tyndrum, Harriers are waiting to see what she can manage in the big one!