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The new course, making the race feel more 'Long' than 'Medium' saw 10 Westies take to the Lomonds of Fife on Sunday.
Don Naylor showed the field a clean pair of heels to win comfortably in 1.36.09. However the field got it's own back, showing everybody's butt a slope full of thistles on the final unique descent. Consequences of this (and new reccommended antidote) soon to be available in photo form, once Manny downloads his camera.
The "Highland Westies" staged a southern raid on the summer league points up for grabs, with Manny finishing 5th, suffering from injury (what do you mean as usual ?) and Swaz 15th. Jane Robertson finished 2nd Lady overall (and 2nd Lady vet). An off-form Cat Miller still managed 4th (2nd lady senior).
Most enjoyed the new route, although the contouring off West Lomond and the long plod along vehicular roads through the forest were a little wearing... the single track and historic buildings adding another dimension to a fun race.
Well done all - results on the shr site - please pass the Sudocrem.
Posted by Keith Fraser on Mon 21 Aug 2006 | 4 comments
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Graham K said...
I tried a new energy drink strategy of Tequila & Sambuca at around 3am on the morning of the race (apparently it works well for Manny) - felt like crap at the start of the race ...but much better after about an hour. If the early traverse was sore the last descent was treeemendous fun. Big question ...will Manny publish "that" photo of Swaz ?
Congrats to all ........
Monday 21st August 2006 7.56pm
JD said...
Running in Scotland for a change made for a really good Sunday outing. The "new" course was great - steep ups and downies; nice forest running, testing contouring and "that" bum-slide. I was knackered going up the runnable first field but as usual felt better when it got steeper going up West Lomond for the first time. A cracking steep descent off the top down to the stream checkpoint proved that my new Innov8 Mudclaws did their job. I followed a few Ochil runners along a good slanting contour heading down as soon as we could, which seemed to be faster than those who stayed higher for longer. In the forest I spied Swaz ahead but couldn't reel him in. After a few KM of wide track it soon got more interesting when it narrowed down to single track up to the monument and the water stop at Craigmead. It widened for the trudge up to East Lomond when we saw the front runners coming back down, always a bit of a dispiriting thing though you get your own back when you reach the top yourself! On the long run back to West Lomond I pulled in a few places and even felt pretty strong on the final short pull up. From there it was that mad bum-burning slide down the gully, wishing I had on lycra shorts or even better Manny's special slidy cut-offs. There was no real alternative to sliding, since as soon as you stood up and tried to run you immediately fell back down again. I managed to get the old legs going down in the fields and just failed to catch the guy ahead, coming in 6 secs over the 2 hours. A cracking race and a good day out with lots of fellow Westies.
Tuesday 22nd August 2006 11.27pm
cc said...
So is that a photo of the 'Swaz Azz' on the SHR site ?
http://www.shr.uk.com/image.php?file=663_imgp4380.jpg
Wednesday 23rd August 2006 5.27pm
Manny said...
Yes that is Swaz's butt on the SHR! The Westies site would not accept it (no wonder!) or any of the other good shots I have, telling me they "have to be jpgs", when they all are!..and taken from the same camera!!Can anyone sort the site.Does anyone else have the same probs with photos?
Thursday 24th August 2006 3.43pm