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We had a fine turn out for the Harriers' Christmas Handicap last Sunday. It was clear that there would be a power struggle between the Santas (and helpers) and the super heroes this year, ably supported by a selection of fruity individuals, snow flakes, jesters, cowgi*ls, nuns, soldiers and other colourful characters. A staggered start format was used with the stagger worked out by the coach in advance based on recent race times or in some cases, a complete guess. An undulating, 5 lap, 4 mile route, mostly within the park was the First across the line and certainly not clowning around was Lorraine Buchanan, holding a 30 second gap to the joker in the pack, Billy Buchanan. A minute later our junior athlete, Max Jones, flew across the line in third. A sprint for the line for 4th place was won by private Chris McCarron, sweeping past Morgan Beaton on the line and overcoming a monumental final effort by William Wallace himself, in the form of Robin Ramsay. An Incredible run by Jim Holmes saw the first of our super heroes cross the line. Even Jim said he runs better with that costume on than he does normally so will be looking for a larger size club vest for future races. Julie Thomson glided across the line next, winning the race of the Santa's Little Helpers as a similarly attired Gordon McInally was in close pursuit. Late arrival Kay Conneff, who had already taken two gym clas*es that morning, was well warmed up by the finish line and had a comfortable lead over the perspiring Forest Gump aka Richard Lawton. Having debuted the costume last year, Russell Couper was striding out in the sequel as Batman Returns, before the next of our Santas, Jim Mearns breezed across the line. Last year's winner, Marion O'Connor was suitably handicapped this year but jived comfortably around the 4 mile course. Next of our juniors was Lewis Moir, who along with the other juniors, had already completed the junior fun run a half hour previously and was still running strongly. Gerry Mullen was a true blast from the past as the