It was beautiful conditions for a hill race… last week. The weather for the 2006 Cort-ma Law hill race was horrible; but that didn’t stop 46 runners from competing. Before the start there was high drama on several counts. If it wasn’t the frequent kerb crawling visits from the police it was an official visit
Some photos from the Newtonmore Westies weekend at the tail end of 2002
After agreeing to have a ‘wee’ training run up Ben Lomond on Sunday, Chris persuaded me to do a couple of hills in the Arrochar hills instead. Well, bang go my chances of winning the Club Handicap on Wednesday night! No, I’m not injured thankfully, just VERY stiff! Anyway, we started from the main car
Dave Rodgers of Lochaber narrowly missed setting a new record for this excellent race … he missed it by one second! (about 52 or 53 minutes). Still, he was about three minutes ahead of second place, so if he was being pushed he would have smashed it to pieces … There was some disgruntled Lochaber
What a tough race this one is! Incredibly steep, easily matching the gradient of Beinn Each but not quite as high. Must have been in the region of 1700′ ascent in a two mile race. Drew, Hamilton and myself turned up to compete against a quality field including Dan Whitehead, Stuart Simpson and eventual winner
An increase in numbers from last year didn’t come as a surprise to Don Reid, who suggested that adverse weather conditions seem to attract hill runners rather than perturb them. Considering the time of year when this race is held, one would expect at least reasonable temperatures if not conditions; we got neither… ok, admittedly,
Throughout the eighties and into the nineties Grudge matches between Westerlands and Hunters Bog Trotters were a common affair, well happening at least once a year! Anyway, after some encouraging feedback (on the Westies website) from a certain man in brown, who had been happily reminiscing the glorious days of the said Grudge matches, has
Four Bawbags, a Royksopp and Two Naan Breads (by ra way!) Well, the Westies’ Glenshee weekend went off with a bang. A superb turnout of around 25 converged on a hostelry that, in comparison with Loch Ossian Youth Hostel, was more like a hotel. The atmosphere was one of relaxation. For those who arrived on
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:
Gary Thompsett will be talking about The Rat Race, which is a new urban adventure race based in the city. Here’s some blurb about it: Going underground with the Urban Adventure phenomenon. Find out what’s involved in organizing and competing in this massively successful Urban Adventure Race from the brains behind the concept, and well