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Devils Burdens 2021 – The Sunday night results show

Dear All, The moment I'm sure you've all been waiting for has arrived. Just like the real burdens the results have taken a wee bit longer than ideal to get processed but nonetheless here they are. But before they are announced it…

Westies Non-Mountain Marathon

Historically June has brought us the LAMM, and more recently its replacement, the SMM. These multi-day orienteering events have been a source of many a good pub yarn for Westies young and old. So in the spirit of this, since lockdown…
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Devils Burdens 2019

12 Westies teams were running at the Devils Burdens this year. YES 12… 70 Westies at one race! Mostly due to Jenn’s diplomatic, negotiating, logistics and administration skills there were no on the day disasters and all 12 teams finished…

Criffel

Photo's from Criffel hill race... by James Callender

Let Battle Commence

It all started so well – dinner on Saturday evening with old hill friend Davey Duncan, in the very excellent Steamboat Inn at Carsethorn and mugs of tea back at his camper van. I left the van around 10pm for the cosiness of my sleeping…

Fost And Frog – Westies Sexagenarians Bid For Glory!

These things happen but hopefully we’ll be able to prevent it in the future with more advanced planning. In sharp contrast, there was no chance that Mr Brennan’s Select Over 60’s were going to melt. Since November, Brian had…

Feel the Burns 2017

An email from John Hamer prompted my entry to this hill race. There's not many races going on in January and good excuse to blow away some Christmas excess. January approached and I thought it may be worth checking where Selkirk is, probably…

Greenmantle 25 Years on – Fancy or not?!

The Greenmnatle Dash – at least 25 years since I had last done this race,  but for 2017  I decided that the pros outweighed the cons;the pros being: a Westie winter league counter,a crisp sunny forecast, Davey’s  offer…

River Air Way

A misty drive up to the car park start at Glenbuck. Atmosphere at race start was full of the buzz of expectation and excitement, a strong odour of bananas and last minute regrets - “I should’ve done parkrun”, “can’t…

When Christine and Helen turned sixty

When Christine and Helen turned sixty   When Christine and Helen turned sixty Their friends exclaimed  - how can this be? They both look so young The both have their teeth and functioning knees!   And what will we do To celebrate…