As like many race reports, this one started with a phone call from Manny: ‘We need bodies for the FRA relays.’ Never having run in a proper relay before, the idea seemed sound so ten days later I found myself in the Gormanmobile hurtling down the M74 in the company of Drew Turnbull and quasi-Westie
5th october 1997 theakstons and fruit cake! ladies team Thanks to Jon Broxap of Kendal for providing floor space and route intimacies for the seven of the Westies Womens Team the night before the race. Thanks to the luxury hotel in Boness for providing the eighth member with four poster bed, jacuzzi, bar, gymn, and
11th June 1997 A good Westies/Easties turn out for the inaugural running of the new improved Kilpatricks hill race. The new route cuts straight up the hill avoiding the long slog up the landrover track and then heads east, missing out Duncolm, and round Greenside Reservoir where it joins the old race route up the
very brief,only 2 W AND I DONT THINK EITHER OF US ENJOYED. warm and breezy making conditions dehydrating ,first half not to bad,made the cut off but up n.g.fell got extreme cramp in both legs and suffered all way to fin.at moment last time.don 1/2 way to ardrossan when i fin 1 adam anderson 2