Maddy Moss Mash

No race reports yet? I imagine eveyone deleted the email I sent

them with instructions on how to get into the admin to write a

report! Oh well, seeing as I know how to do it, I may as well

share my response to this very enjoyable Bog and Burn race with you all.

Headline: Steffen ran a blinder to cap the best week of hill running in

his entire life; he beat Chris for the third time in a week... yes that's

three hill races in a week and Gorgas gubbed Upson in all of them! (And

almost as shocking, Pete Baxter beat myself.. no hang on, there's

nothing actually shocking about that...).

The conditions were perfect: cool, slight breeze and very dry

underfoot. John was feeling a bit cold as he approached the

summit of Ben Cleuch, so he put on his full body cover. Nevertheless,

he managed a good, solid run (as usual) to finish fourth Westie behind

the afore-mentioned duo and first big W

David Riach.

I'm gesssing that fifth Westie in was probably new member Martin Reid,

who must get round to buying a Westies vest soon,

or no bugger is going to know who he is at races.

After a decent climb by myself (I actually overtook Martin before the

main summit) I hobbled back along the narrow path, where Dave

C (and several others) managed to get past my jutting-out elbows

(albeit eventually in Dave's case: his first

attempt at a sly-overtaking-maneouvre almost ended in trouble, when he

slipped and almost took himself out. His recovery was impressive

though).

Hamilton tailed Dave for most of the climb apparently, but the descent

proved to be too much for the Glasgow Osteopath ,

and he trundled over the finish line a couple of minutes behind myself.

Perhaps Katherine or Catriona can add something to the report from their perspective, as I haven't the foggiest how they got on.

Drew, back from a minor quad injury in the very same Ochil hills, brought home the Westies contingent.

Results to follow at the SHR site.

Posted by Blair Millen on Thu 21 Jul 2005 | 2 comments

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