Dumyat Dash

Results Rushed home and trying to get all the chores done (kicking the kids aside) so I can be first Westie to make a post about the Dumyat Dash. No mean feet since there were so many Westies in Menstrie this morning for the race. Excellent autumnal…

Arrochar Alps 2012

7th July 2012Results | Photos | SHR reportHere's my recipe for a successful long hill race. Please note that this is relatively advanced. Inexperienced cooks may wish to start with something shorter.Ingredients1 course18 marshals and helpers1…

Age before Beauty at the Burdens

The Westies older Women (WoWs) recorded a satisfying victory over their younger adversaries at the Devil's Burdens Relays. Both teams lined up for the early 9.30 start with Elsie and Christine setting the tone for the day by arriving at Holl…

Ochils 2000 Hill Race

OK then, no one with a bit of wit and literary skill has yet written a report, so you'll have to make do with me again! Another long race and yet another near-identical time to the previous attempt - so I’m getting older but at least not…

Ship Inn Shell Bay Sandy Slither

I took part in this lovely wee race 6 mile in the Kingdom of Fife on Friday evening. One of those rare point to point races, starting at Lower Largo and finishing in picturesque Elie outside the cracking Ship Inn. Most of the race is run on…

Chapelgill Hill Race

Results It had been many years since I was in this lovely corner of the country for the brutal Chapelgill race. But it was a welcome return, with the weather being grand and lots of familiar friendly faces. Westies managed a good turnout for…

Jura Race 2010

Some photos courtesy of Barbara MacLeod and results here

Park Run #80

As anyone who has been out of running action for any length of time will know, the return to racing can feel effortful at best and an impossible bodily feat at worst. So, three or so weeks since the pain in my ankle tendon mysteriously vanished,…

The Grindleford Gallop

Results | RouteA 21 mile challenge for walkers, and 333 runners too, on paths, tracks, moorland and parkland in the White Peak about Eyam, Longstone Moor, Bakewell and Chatsworth estate and culminating along the high escarpments above the Derwent…

Lochaber Cow Hill

ResultsMy first race since Carnethy and did I struggle with it. Manny was not going to do as he was still recovering from the Corrieyairach Challenge on Saturday so I thought I would give it a bash as it was only 2 miles & 900ft climb. It…