Coll Half Marathon
I got this through from the organiser of the race asking me to post something for the race ... it looks like it could be a good event, including a pasta party on the Friday night and a ceilidh on the Saturday. Download more info about Coll…
Creag Dhubh
Only 3 Westies (Brenda, Val and me) at Newtonmore for the highland games hill race to An Torr, on the slopes of Creag Dhubh. For those who don't know it, the route is out and back involving; a lap of the track, a stile, a couple of fences, a…
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…
Norman’s Law 15/04/06
A weekend working in Fife coincided nicely with this race. It was a beautiful spring day with very dry conditions which I wasn't expecting following the mud bath at Knockfarrel last weekend. It's a fairly flat course and consequently had a blistering…
Lomonds of Fife Bum Slide
The new improved Lomonds of Fife route attracted a good turnout of Scotland's and Westies' finest hillrunners for the 3rd championship race of 2007. Courtesy of the Miller-mobile I was chauffeured to the village of Strathmiglo, at the foot of…
cochno moonlight run
all you fair-weather and nocturnally-challenged westies missed out on a cracker of a run on wed. And I say that as a paid up member of the Scaredofthedark Club. The rain stopped just before we started running, the moon was fantastic and the…
wed night blanefield run
There was a great turnout of Westies on a wet night at Blanefield for the supposed moonlight run. There was no moon and there was almost as much swimmimg as running as we found the west highland way a bit drookit. It was a mild night though…
westies christmas dinner
36 of us enjoyed a fine night out at Fanny Trollopes restaurant in Argyle Street. The food was excellent as, of course, was the company. Captainess Cat received a well deserved Westie of the Year award to round off a great evening.Some photos…
Baggers
Just in case any of you baggers out there are listening to the radio tomorrow afternoon, there is supposed to be a programme on Radio 4 called "Saving the Best for Last" about the old timers who first started walking the Munros and other related…
Glasgow Half
This is by far the busiest road race I've ever been to. I started off in the Blue pulse (one behind the "elite" pulse containing Westies racing snake Riach) Having heard tales from previous years of congestion on the Kingston bridge (every night…