Meall a Bhuachaille 05

Four Westies journeyed North of the snowline for this traditional end of season dash - Stef, John D, myself and Brian B - backing up his promise at Tinto to get out and run more. Elsie and Peter were there in support - and Westies HHR defect(!) Jim H marshalling for his new club's promotion.

I passed Stef on the Corbett ascent, but his faster descending skills took him to the bealach first despite the ice and snow covered steps. I caught him again by the second top only to watch him disappear down the deep heathery descent, his bigger stride carrying him effortlessly away from my rapidly shortening quads. The final climb in the forest was a not so pleasant surprise, but enabled me to take a few places back.

Stef finished 30th in a pretty high quality field with 63m14; I followed in 36th with 64m48. Don Johnally was next home in 47th with 67m36; with Brian closing out a steady Westies showing in 78th with 75m40.

105 ran, Angela Mudge posted yet another female event record at 55m48. Cameron Watson and Des Crowe won the open and vets respectively.

The SHR do after was a fairly sedate but highly enjoyable affair, even with Manny's arrival later in the evening. At one point Peter and Elsie were going to send out for the Highland equivalent of five barley loaves and two fishes - but the catering fared well, despite repeated forays by Stef and John Blair Fish.

Jim had some Westies race pics and Manny had a good group pic of the aftermath - Can you post them here, guys?

Posted by Keith Fraser on Mon 21 Nov 2005 | 2 comments

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