I did this hill race on saturday the only Westie present.It started at Tulloch castle on the outskirts of Dingwall.It had a feel of an oldfashioned X_C with five or six barbed wire fences to climb over two crossings of a fast flowing burn which came half way up your running shorts,add in a lot
We did this yesterday prior to a trek in the Stubai. 7.2k 750 metres of ascent. Quite a steep start but all runnable through the woods felt happier when I could walk/run further up great support from the locals on the hill, fantastic views of the Stubai Alps from the finish point then great freshly
Another glorious saturday in the Highlands if not quite as hot as last weekend.the hill race was a much more low key event but rougher on the open hill than at Lochcarron,eventually only eleven of us lined up for the race and we had to wend our way through some inattentive spectators to get out
A pensioner and his pal attempt to cycle from Lake Geneva to Menton on the Med over the high Cols of the Alps Day 1After a long drive from Glasgow to Thonon les Bains in the camper van we set off early on Monday morning from Lake Geneva and headed up in to the hills
Most Kiwi’s feel it has been a terrible summer so far but it seems quite good to me. Monday however was a lovely day for the masters hill race with a refreshing wind. A good trail up through the bush to 1800ft and then up in the tussocks to the top at 2188ft and a
until manny actually does the braid hills x-c race can we have no more jibes about running around football pitches! I was the only westies runner among the many fresh faced university runners with a smattering of vet competitors.the hill was as hard as ever and the path on the far side much muddier than