Finlay Wild won the race with Andy Fallas in 2nd place in a big field, the race being a British, Scottish and Carnethy championship race. Stewart Whitlie was 3rd V50 and the Carnethy prizes stopped there. Apart from Lucky Fionna, who scored a spot prize of a rather large bottle of vodka. Interesting spot prize tactic of allocating them before the race started. Not a bad idea.
Does everyone find this a really hard race? In the lower echelons we did, but we feel contentedly tired. We couldn’t have had better weather. Spectacularly lovely with endless views. In cold easterly winds the sun warmed the day and it was perfect running conditions. Fully marked and marshalled you can’t get lost (well I assume), and you will never be short of a jelly baby or some water.
Remarkably I ran to the second the same time as on my first outing in 2011, though the course now has a different start. This is a narrow track and very boggy normally though fortunately relatively dry today. With the very large field it turned into a 3 mile long queue. Your race position was largely determined by where you started, which is rather annoying. I’d like to race to my best running ability, not to where you position yourself at the start. Oh well; so I ran for the craic and the SHR mug. But I don’t want a cracked cup thank you.
I took quite a few photos of descending runners (not actually high fiving Harry!), but the camera starts up so slowly I just have a lot of photos of my thigh. I’ve spared you those.
Digby
Matthew Curry’s superb photos on facebook.
Results here. Prizewinners on http://www.stucachroin5000.org.uk and also results with bib numbers