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Cairn Table All Gender Race
A fine day out in the wet and wild in deepest East Ayrshire, this race was well attended by Westies of all sex and/or gender. That is except for our illustrious captain who cried off at the last minute with a desire to nest all day, instead of run on his broken ankle (I exaggerate, of course, but his ankle does have a funny "lump"). David Riach's description of the race as "fun" and "wee" was a little poetic I thought, as we amassed in the clag and howling gale. But this is a cracking race to the biggest cairn I have ever seen, let alone taken about 5 minutes to turn around. Captainess Cat and Secretary Dave swept up the prizes (except there weren't any - more later) by being first lady and first man, or was it vice-versa? We nearly froze to death waiting for the prize giving, only to see the organisers get in their cars and drive away. Prizes "in the post" apparently! But it was a good day, with many of us congregating for a scintillating (and expensive) cup of tea at the nearest motorway services (Drew, we missed you).
Westies Results (apologies if I have it wrong)
David Riach (1st man)
Graham Kelly
Hamilton Semple
Brian Brennan
Cat Miller (1st lady)
Muffy Calder (3rd lady)
Helen Macpherson
Drew Turnbull
Posted by Muffy Calder on Sun 17 Jun 2007 | 5 comments
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dt said...
sorry i missed the expensive tea, but i wish the Westie wumen had dun a glen rosa,and not showedas glamour side of club are all going so well and leaving me well behind.as most folk know i run this hilla lot and love the run downhill to finish and well done to david & cat and the rest dt
Sunday 17th June 2007 2.31pm
Graham K said...
A top wee race indeed !
The course was fairly straight forward – across the flat(ish) ground to the hill …up to the cairn and back down to the start again.
More by chance than design I found myself in the lead bunch of seven runners who took off fast from the start – fairly quickly that was sorted out and I took my rightful place a little further back but towards the front of the main group. As David commented in an email, the course is very runnable which is good – the downside is a distinct lack of opportunities to do the “walk a bit to recover” thing. Towards the summit, the fast boys disappeared into the distance and the mist but as always, on the straight "up and down" routes, it was comforting to see them descending i.e. the top can’t be THAT far ahead. I managed to get past one last Kilmarnock vest just before rounding the cairn (which was big …really big) and commencing the descent. Sadly, the Kili guy sped past a few seconds later due to my complete inability to run downhill.
As usual, the gains made on the climb continued to be lost on the descent but thanks to the return along the flat, I was just able to hold on to finish in 8th position.
Big Congrats to all !
Sunday 17th June 2007 8.18pm
c said...
Well done Dave R, that's 2 years in a row - 2008 for the hat-trick !... and well done all the other Westeez !who took part !!!
Sunday 17th June 2007 11.26pm
Chris said...
Nice one David. And well done to all the Westies who ran!
Monday 18th June 2007 9.06am
Chris said...
Here are a few more photos from Cairn Table
Tuesday 19th June 2007 10.42pm