11 October 2008 5 Westies enjoyed the late autumn sunshine and picturesque Borders setting near Peebles, before setting off into the howling wind on this muddy but very runnable course. A good turnout saw Colin Donnelly win the race from Brian Marshall, followed by Don Naylor and Adam Ward. Manny Gorman was top Westie in
3rd July 2009 Just a short note to say that Manny Gorman completed his continuous self-powered round of Scotland’s 219 Corbetts today. Details are on the blog for the round at http://corbettrun.blogspot.com/ Congratulations Manny!!!
10th June 2009 This is a rather unusual report as I had a static perspective on the race from my marshalling point, but here goes… Ideal weather conditions meant a high turnout of over 100 starters to the Crow Road car park. The field soon spread out on the initial climb and a long line
18th June 2009 Flat canalside run on a very windy evening. It’s a bit asymmetric so it was about 6km into the wind and 4km wind-assisted. Felt tired and demotivated, not very interested in races right now. There’s a fine line between starting gently and getting caught at the back of the pack. I was
9 May 2009 Having been out injured for a while, I wasn’t fit enough to do Ben Lomond, so I headed east through the monsoon to run this race as a wee fitness test. I’m sure the undulating route would be very scenic on a sunny day, but in the pishing rain and howling wind,
Welcome to the new Westies website! It’s been a long time coming, but it’s here at last. I hope you like it. While the look of the site has been updated, the big changes are "behind the scenes", and will allow your Committee to alter and edit the site more freely in future. Most aspects
14th March 2009 Not a forename in sight as the Westies duo of Hamilton Semple and Johnston Orr tackled the 5k parkrun on Saturday morning. The event now attracts well over 100 runners every week. The pace had slackened off a bit after Robert Gilroy’s scorching run of 15:35 last week, with winner Colin Welsh
25th April 2009238 runners(!!), 5km, 2 Westies, 1 tent. 1. Jeff Farquhar, 17:0110. Owen O’Neill, WCCC, 18:3513. Donna Finlayson, VPCoG, 18:5627. Johnston Orr + tent, WCCC, 19:58 Full results
Results 2 Westies ran. For those who prefer a more detailed description, Graham Kelly and I were your “fat birds” for this 10k on a very windy day, and struggled to deal with the howling headwind and awkward gusts coming in from the sea for the first 3km. Runners clustered together to avoid taking the
26th April 2008 The most northerly hill race on the mainland saw a new winner this year due to the unfortunate absence of defending champion Manuel Gorman. In returning his trophy, I did at least get my hands on a race prize for once. 21 runners started the race on a beautiful sunny afternoon, with