roon the toon

Scotland play their first World Cup match since 1998 next Sunday. In Boston, at nine in the evening local time, which is two in the morning for anyone watching from Scotland. Kilmarnock Harriers had clearly done the maths. Roon the Toon was moved from its original date of 14th June to today, a week earlier, so that three thousand runners could do their ten kilometres around Kilmarnock town centre and out through the countryside near Caprington Castle, and then spend the following week in a state of anxious anticipation without a race to worry about as well.