Ben Dubh Hill Race 2024
It was a perfect evening; clear, sunny, cool, a nice breeze to keep the midges off, the Trossachs hills bathed in golden dusk and the new path up Conic Hill shining in the distance.
I'd forgotten that the race starts on an already quite steep…
Summer League
The Summer League is made up of the 6 SHR Championship races, plus 3 chosen by each of last year’s winners. So the dates for your diary are:
The Cobbler (C) - 13th April
Beinn Dubh - (B,W) 24th April
Whangie Whizz (B,W) - 1st…
Westies Profile- Ella F
Meet Ella Foreman (She/her), current Women's Team captain, ex-roadie, mountain biker, hill runner and olive lover.
First time trial of 2024
Results for Feburary 2024 Time Trial
Pl.
Name
Chip Time
Handicap
1.
Hadyn Murray
17:42
22:42
2.
Clodagh Mangan
21:08
23:08
3.
Ronnie MacEachen
23:25
23:26
4.
Donald Waters
17:24
23:50
5.
Drew Carr
16:43
24:30
6.
Hamilton…
Strathpuffer 2024
This one had been on the to-do list for a while.
The format is simple, you start riding your bike around the woods outside Strathpeffer at 10am Saturday and keep on going until 10am Sunday, trying for as many laps in the process. Various…
Westies Profile-Wiebke
Meet Wiebke, hill runner, trail runner, ultra runner and Westie of the Year 2023, among other great things.
Westie on Wheels
“Running was my first love and it will be my last” but………..cycling has been a blast this year. I loved the huge range of events and whole joyous atmosphere of the UCI World Cycling Championships in August. On the days of the road races,…
Westies Profile- Gaby
How and when did you get into hill running?
I got into hill running in 2020. I was training for my Mountain Leader qualification between lockdowns and realised I could double up a navigation practice in the Campsies with a run (navigating…
Two Races: Dale Head & Tinto
WHERE?
Dale Head – The picturesque Lakeland finery of the Borrowdale Valley.
Tinto – That ambiguous stretch of Scotland that isn’t quite the Borders and isn’t quite Lanarkshire.
WHAT?
Dale Head – A dash across a field,…
Two Breweries Hill Race
Saturday 23 September 2023
I‘ve run for years but I’ve never thought it’s really possible, or that interesting, for me to put into words the experience of running a big race. Hence having never previously written a race report. All…