Entries by Nigel Scott

Bishop Hill Race

Although a few folks thought better of it, a smattering of Westies brought a little spice to Bishop Hill Race, first in the 2005 SHR championships. A short sharp 20min or so brought home Brain Marshall in first for the third year running with Stewart Whitlie second, Ronnie was fifth, Nige sixth, with next Westie

Westies Saturday & Sunday Runs

Saturday. As noted by Captain Charlie, the pre-dinner Saturday run is Ben Venue. Meet at the usual place for 12pm lunchtime. Sunday. A hangover busting gently does it wee run will kick off in the West End at 11am. Meet outside the Tennis club on Hyndland Rd. Aspects of the Nigel Barge, canal, and Kelvin

Corrieyairack

Right now … As some folks have been asking, here is a complete essay run down of the Corrieyairack (Sat 6 July). Corrieyairack is a duathlon event following General Wades Military Road from Fort Augustus to Kincraig nr Kingussie. There is 17 miles of running, and 26 of cycling as follows: Start Fort Augustus 2km

Patterdale

Dateline – Saturday 24 August, 2002. Location – Patterdale, The Lakes. Event – Patterdale Dog Day Sheep Dog Trials and Show Fell Race After a very wet morning of herding sheep in the mud, the sun blazed through to greet the start of the fell race. 3 miles, 1000ft, several hundred spectators, numerous dogs and

Ben Nevis 6 Sept 03

Well, this was my first Ben, and about big Drew’s 20th. Saturday saw near perfect running conditions and a very good westies turnout for this classic event. With the grand atmosphere, a few nerves, and some hot competition we were all in for an interesting race. Like most folks I felt a bit under the

Westies Ben Nevis Successes

Further to some sparkling individual performances at The Ben in a high class field, an excellent turn out from Westies brought home a third team placing. Westies came in as 3rd team behind the local Ben experts (Lochaber in 2nd) and probably the strongest team in the UK just now (Bingley in 1st). This reflects

Sunday at the Whangie

A run has been arranged at the Whangie (Queen’s View) for this Sunday 8 Feb. This is particularly for the benefit of new Westerlands’ members and those short of time to head farther afield but all are of course welcome. Refreshments in the Carbeth Inn afterwards. Kick off is at 10:30, meeting in the car

What a load of Cobblers

Well, The Cobbler that is, upon Marc McColl’s kind invitation. In fact who could resist an invitation to run “from the base to the top”, especially when qualified with the additional comments “when I say base I mean 2m above sea level on the OS map”. Yes, well, quite, that settles that then – I

Dumbartonshire AAA XC Championships Success 29 Nov

Fine individual and team performances by Westerlands on Saturday led to top ten finishes in both the men’s and women’s events, second team prize for the ladies, and the men narrowly missing a prize after finishing as fourth team. Full results are: Ladies – Ana Talbot 8th, Liz Horton 10th, Muffy Calder 11th. Men –

Sunday Run

Westies sunny sunday run scheduled for 10am on the 7th in the Ochils. Several hours running followed by tea and buns ;-) For more details contact JD or Nige.