Entries by b.bonnyman

Bishop Hill Race

Results 3rd March 2013 A good wheen of Westies took part in this afternoon’s Bishop Hill Race enjoying near perfect conditions. I’m afraid I’ve no idea of the results as (as usual) I had to head off straight after the race but I do know that the remarkable (and seemingly indestructable) Brian Brennan completed his

Glas Tulaichean

2 June 2012 This race – one of only two uphill only races in the calendar – has been on my to-do list for a long time, but an annual get-together with old schoolmates on the first weekend of June had always scuppered my chances of running it. This year the reunion venue was just

Newtyle Hill Race

11 April 2012 Results There must be something about this race that attracts a certain vintage of Westie: last year there was Matt Ogston, Pete Baxter, Brian Brennan and myself, leading Matt to muse that it was ‘like 1995 all over again’; this year Matt returned (for what is increasingly looking like his annual hill

Clachnaben Hill Race

7 April 2012 There was a new improved route for the first counter in this year’s SHR Championship, a fair bit shorter and – by most accounts – a fair bit better than the original, with more runnable climbs and less ankle twisting descents. After the usual obligatory stampede with 200 plus runners jostling for

Deuchary Hill Race

25 March, 2012 Results Record temperatures coincided with a record turnout for the last of Adrian Davis’s Highland Boundary Hill Races. Lounging around before the start in the spring sunshine it felt more like June than March and it seemed hard to believe that on the same day two years ago the race route had

Maraton Warszawski

Event website | Results | Brian’s splits I ran my first ever marathon here last year after my Forfar mate and long time running accomplice Steve Connor moved to Warsaw and suggested I combine a social visit with the race. Despite having managed to avoid the distance for the best part of 20 years I’d

Kinnoull Hill Race

Kinnoull is one of those races that seems to divide opinion among hill runners. Often written off as little more than a hilly cross-country race, I’ve heard it dismissed as too short, too flat and too fast – all presumably reasons why it’s been dropped from the Bog and Burn series. Personally, I think it’s

White Tops Hill Race

Friday 2nd July Despite being only twenty minutes from my front door and being run over one of my favourite Sidlaw training routes, it’s about ten years since I last managed to run the White Tops. The race almost folded this year when long time organisers Dundee Roadrunners pulled out, but Hawkhill Harriers stepped in

Kilpatricks Hill Race

9th June 1999 People often ask me, ‘Brian, as a highly successful yet disarmingly modest prize winning mountain athletic, are there any tips or advice you could give to me, a mere novice, to help me win my first hill race?’. To which I usually reply, ‘Sorry, Charlie, no can do.’ But on further reflection,

Merrick Hill Race

Five go to Merrick 19th September 1998 Flushed with success after our recent pot-bagging success at the Lomonds of Fife, Manny, Kevin and myself enlisted big George and Murdo for a raid into deepest, darkest Galloway. We arrived at Glen Trool slightly shaken after a near death experience with a Calor Gas Lorry travelling on