Tag Archive for: westies
It’s Grim at the Breakers…
Those of you who attended my State Pensioner's Party at the Wee Curry Shop back in January may have dismissed my fancy-dress ravings at the end of proceedings. What, for example, was this Bay to Breakers race anyway?
Confessions time: I was…
A fine day for trotters
Last Saturday, and a fine sunny one in Holyrood Park. Five Westies (plus a friend/apprentice) turned up for the annual procession of brown - and other - vests round the undulating Bog Trot. Starting near the back of the field, I saw little of…
Glasgow Uni Road Race – take 2
Results
Last Saturday was a fine spring day with a Westy race entry almost reaching double figures for that perennial Uni Road Race. Des Gilmore informed us that this was the 50th edition of this much-changed race, the first edition having been…
Forays to Forres
I'd never been to Forres until this weekend, although it's a popular place for the Vets' (oops, Masters) championships. My short visit showed why: the course was a splendid woodland trail, book-ended by grassy parkland to get the old legs working.…
Lovely sunny day – race cancelled
The report title is a "red rag" to provoke Manny into some OTT abuse of wimpish road runners. And yet...it was a fine day that dawned over Glasgow, if frosty. Underfoot/tyre conditions were flagged up as the wee car decided to take a glide into…
Last Bray of an old ass?
When I last ran the Donkey Brae run, some 10 years ago, I was pushing 50 (minutes not years). What a difference a decade makes. It was a good day for the race, however: cool and breezy. I prepared with a barefoot warm-up around the park, where…
Black Crock 5, Kinghorn
This was my first run of any kind since the Darnley/Dams run a month ago, and I didn't want to miss a grand evening out in Fife. However, the Fates were conspiring to turn a commuter rail trip to Kinghorn into something more problematic: more…
Scottish Vets (erm, Masters) Championships
ResultsOne of the positive aspects of advancing age - especially if you are an unreconstructed cross-country runner - is that annual Golden Oldies parade that was the Vets, now politely renamed the Masters' Championships. Over the last decade…
Glasgow Uni Road Race
ResultsA modest turnout (187 finishers) for this much-altered annual fixture, perhaps on account of its being rescheduled from its usual November slot and the resultant colder and wetter conditions. However, the rain held off long enough for…
Braid Hill race
It was a fine day in Edinburgh too for the annual inter-Varsity scamper round the perimeter bridle-path to the Braid Hills Golf Club. Three active Westies, plus Ellie the Cheerleader and (it seems) Chris' chauffeuse, turned up: aforementioned…