Devils Burdens 2007
Seven Westies teams lined up for the Devils Burdens this year. That either means that you're all fantastically keen and enthusiastic - or that you're scared of me and Chris! I hope it's the former!So - it was a lovely sunny day as the chaos…
Kymin hill race
Sorry about the delay in this report, but while you were all dashing around Carbeth on 30th Dec. I was in south Wales running this little race, 3.5 miles and 900ft. If I should have been doing so, the day after landing from Oz and with a stinking…
Rock of ages…
One thing I've learned over the years about the Black Rock 5: never trust the weather forecast! The weather was fine, and the threatened rainstorms didn't materialise. The second one I learnt as I looked across the Kinghorn sands from the train…
west districts
West district results available in SAL website. Not sure if the results are right. Could,nt find Victoria or Drew in the lists.
Glasgow Parkrun No.6
10th January 2009I finally managed to drag myself along to the Pollok Park Run. A free 5km time trial held every Saturday morning starting at 9.30am outside the Burrell Collection. There was a good turn out of Westies with Andy Mott as well…
Forfar Multi-Terrain Half Marathon
1st February 2009My third year in a row at the Forfar Multi-Terrain Half Marathon. Last year flooding was a problem, whereas this year the heavy muddy underfoot conditions across the last few fields made it hard going. I finished 7 seconds slower…
Glasgow Green 5k
19th June 2007More than 1000 runners for a Tuesday night 5k on Glasgow Green. The race was won by Chris Mackay of Greenock Glenpark in 14:23, and first lady was Susan Finch of City of Glasgow in 17:32. I finished 20th in 16:50, and Bill Fisher…
Devil’s Burdens – New Route
Details of the new Devil's Burdens route are here:http://bcruickshank.brinkster.net/devils_entry.docLeg 3 is a fair bit longer than before, changing over at Strathmiglo.
KP’s by moonlight
Snowing on and off in Glasgow all afternoon, it didn't bode well for Westies night time run in the Kilpatrick hills but a few of us had the faith that we might just get lucky. Sure enough by 6pm the snow had stopped and it was starting to clear…
Bath 1/2 2008
Well another foray into deepest darkest England, for a road race with friends and family. Out of an origional 13 of us entered, 7 of us raced on the day, but this meant we had plenty of support from the others.The Bath half misses most of the…