Almost didn’t go due to the terrible weather forecasts but the drive up to Loch Morlich was fantastic and the actual weather couldn’t have been better …..organisers got it spot on / .e. they were lucky as within an hour of the end of the race the wind really got up and the rain started
A year ago I came out of racing retirement and my first race was Cairn William at Monymusk ……. a rude awakening indeed ,….anyway decided I would go up again and see how things compared a year on. For those of you who haven’t done this race before I’ll give a brief description. starts and
Went up to near Corpach for the Druim Fada race last weekend …..which I can heartily recommend ….not the sort of race which really suits me ….in some ways its like an ordinary hill race ….steep climb up on good, sometimes very very muddy, covered in snow tracks with bit of steep boggy descent ….bad
After Knockfarrel on the Saturday thought I’d go help Stuart Simpson out as a marshall at this race as I was absolutely knackered. However Stuart didn’t need any more help and talked me into running. Gordon Robinson appeared with tales of horrendous injury and not racing for 9 months but looked in good form and
Recently recovered from the flu I thought why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone …..visit my daughter Kirsten and take in a hill race in Inverness. Sun was splitting the sky as I drove up the road and looked like a great day for the hills. Arrived in Inverness and eventually found out where
I promised Drew I’d write the report for Callendar crags earlier today – I’ve added in two other recent races, should have done them earlier Callendar Crags Just myself and Drew from Westies in this cracking wee race up over and around Callendar Crags. Around 40 or so in the field and they all charged
Norman’s Law – only Westie at this race so presumably everybody else was either at Craig Dunain or resting for the 10 mile race in Strathclyde park. This was my first race since having my hernia op 4 weeks ago so wasn’t expecting too much. Great weather, good crowd of well over a 100 runners
Given the promise of a cooler day ….at last….. I decided to head up to Dufftown Highland Games to do the Ben Rinnes race. Got there in good time and got entered and sorted out route etc ……weather wasn’t too bad although given my horrendous experience at Moffat two weeks previously I was worried what