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APRIL RACES 2023

It’s been a bumper month for our ZE runners with marathons galore! Club records tumbling, debut marathons, Boston qualifiers and PB’s too! Ross Manson 3:12 debut marathon at Southampton Karl Simpson 2:55 ZE club record and BQ at Manchester Mary Rutherford 3:09 ZE club record and PB at Boston Julie Kirkness 4:34 debut marathon at […]

INVERNESS HALF MARATHON 2023

We were delighted to see so many Shetlanders running well in Inverness a few weeks ago, great efforts. Many of the runners we have been coaching achieved personal bests, rewarding their hard work over the winter months.   Joe 2:17 (20 min pb) Mary 1:28 (2 min pb) Natalie 1:34 (4 min pb) Neil 1:15 […]

April 2022

April 2022 That has been a very busy month here at Gym Gair!  We have been on our holidays, jetting off abroad for the first time since December 2019.  It was fantastic to feel the warmth of the sun for a couple of weeks and explore Gran Canaria.  All good things must come to an […]

July 2021

Holidays, at long last!  It’s been a while since we have enjoyed a trip to the mainland, and we certainly packed a lot in while we could. We took the Northlink to Aberdeen and set off on a tour of Scotland with the car, enjoying stays in St Fillans, Glen Coe, Skye and Nairn.  Highlights […]

June 2021

Summer is here, and it has certainly spurred our clients and friends to help propel us around the world in record time.  We completed the Gym Gair 24 challenge in 19 days, and decided to add in all the countries that were competing in the Euros for a bit of extra steps.  We managed to […]

May 2021

We have been advertising and getting organised for our Gymgair 24 step challenge, to raise some funds for Alzheimer Scotland and get a bit fitter along the way.  We have set the team the ambitious challenge of walking around the world in 24 days, which is 18,000 miles.  We are delighted to be sponsored by […]

April 2021

We started April in a snowy fashion this year and finished it doing our first workout on the decking in the sunshine, the weather has been a bit unpredictable to say the least! This month, we have been focusing on creating a new members area on our website to host our videos from Keiba that […]

March 2021

March has been a really busy month here at Gym Gair.  We have been doing some filming for our website with Keiba Clubb to improve our online service and help create a members area to provide videos on how to do exercises, and workouts to follow too.  This was done over 4 days and our […]

Frosty February

The cold snap continues!  The snow has been beautiful, with flat calm days and a very hard frost, we have covered a lot of miles the past few weeks (and made several snow men!!). This month, we have brought more clients back to the gym, but ZE Run continues to be delivered online, mainly due […]

Happy New Year! January 2021

We have started 2021 just as we left 2020, in Tier 3 and a Coronavirus spike here in Shetland.  Luckily, we are still able to operate the gym and we have welcomed back some of our first clients of the year.  We have extra precautions in place and Zoom has been reactivated until this spike […]