Top athletes from across the nation converged on Hampden Park for the glitzy awards ceremony.

Joining the likes of Eilidh Child and Lynsey Sharp on stage to pick up gongs were the part-time pace-setters from the Peeblesshire village.

The West Linton Running Club was formed just over four years ago by fundraiser Helen Ryall.

While training for the New York Marathon, she set up the group to help boost the money she was raising for Breast Cancer Care.

After pounding the streets of the Big Apple, Helen and her new running friends decided to continue with the group.

And their fundraising efforts also continued after one of the group discovered her baby daughter was suffering from a rare genetic condition called cystinosis.

The group began, and have continued, raising money for the Cystinosis Foundation.

They joined the official jogscotland network last year and numbers have now reached over 70 - with more than 30 of them turning out every week.

Last weekend several members of the group were in Glasgow to collect the jogscotland club of the year.

Founding member Helen told us: “It came as a big surprise for all of us.

“We had been running together for a couple of years in village but there was this misconception that we were elite runners - nothing could have been further from the truth.

“We signed up to jogscotland to show that we were open to runners of all abilities and since then many more people have come along.

“It’s like a social club in many ways as a lot of friendships have been made.” Four of the group are now in training for next year’s Barcelona Ironman.

But they will take a break on Saturday, December 20, to hold their own prize-giving ceremony at West Linton Golf Club.

Helen added: “We have our own awards each year where we recognise our best dressed runner, best hill runner, and things like that.

“We’ll make sure we take the jogscotland award along for everyone to see.” There are close to 300 different jogscotland groups spread across the whole of the country.

And several were shortlisted for the annual awards.

Glasgow’s Adrian Heron was named Achiever of the Year and Leader of the Year went to Peterhead’s Freddie Dick.

Following the ceremony at Hampden head of jogscotland Billy Mitchell said: “It was wonderful to read through the huge number of nominations we received for our awards this year, and a difficult task to draw up the shortlists.

“Any one of those on the shortlists would have made a worthy winner, and we were delighted to welcome them all to this very special night at Hampden to celebrate their achievements.

“The three winners were particularly outstanding examples of everything jogscotland stands for. They demonstrated great commitment to getting themselves or others active, and a sense of joy and pride in everything they achieved.

“I’m delighted to congratulate them all for their contributions to the jogscotland community, and to their own local communities.”