Welcome to the Arrochar Alps Hill Race! The race is held every year on the last Saturday in June. Registration is in the Three Villages Hall in Arrochar. The start is approximately a mile down the road in Succoth. As you run towards Succoth turn into the forest road on the right, just before crossing […]
Andrea It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was my first ultramarathon. Not only that, but I had skipped the marathon distance. Well, I had technically run a marathon distance before (twice, in training for the Devil!), but never in competition. Everything was new to me. The distance, the […]
Liene Spruženiece is the owner of these memories and author of the report. I merely uploaded it to the website! (Wiebke Dec 4th) Route: 34 km, 1600 m elevation After completing the Glenshee 9 race, which secured me the SHR Champs mug (a major life goal of mine), I was ready to retire from racing […]
Update 05/03/2026 Final standings! This is it! The end of the Winter League! We have a champion and that is…with 94 points collected in 14 races…. *** CHRIS FURSE *** 🥳 👏 Well, done Chris! Tremendous effort, completing 14 out of the 19 Winter League races! Chris was the only person who participated in more […]
There is a story about Jeff Browning advising Courtney Dauwalter, at the start of her first Hardrock 100, to spread the effort evenly throughout the race, like peanut butter over a piece of bread. It is a good story and a beautifully simple analogy, that has been handed down from one trail running legend to […]
It is Friday, January 17th 06:20 am. Damien arrives at my flat to pick me up and shuttle me over to Helensburgh. We get to the pier by 06:45. I switch my tracker on, check if it is actually working and then head over to the Helensburgh terminus of the John Muir Way (JMW). Why […]
Our wonderful and most deserving Ella Peters has been voted Westie Of The Year 2024! Ella has had an amazing year in the hills, and the whole club is very proud of her! She won the Scottish Hill Running Championship (Senior Woman) and was member of the winning Women’s Team (WesterlandsCCC). She represented Scotland at […]
At the end of August I ventured to Chamonix to attempt the iconic Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) race. The short story: I was too slow. The race is not one for racing snails. This was clear almost from the start as I scraped through the first few cut offs with only minutes to […]
A new obsession is born. The Fellsman. https://fellsman.org.uk/ The Background I first heard about this event very early in my own trail and ultra running journey. A few people I knew in the Southwest community had done it and on the 2018 Cheviot Goat someone talked about it as well. Every account was the same: […]
I will have to travel back in time to give my 2023 Lakeland 100 experience a bit of context. In 2018 I ran the Lakeland 50. It was the first time I raced in the Lake District. I absolutely loved it and made the journey from Dalemain to Coniston in just under 16 hours which […]