This year’s ROC mountain marathon was in the Lowther Hills with the event centre near Durisdeer. What a lovely part of the world to explore, with the added jeopardy of being shot at by grouse hunters if you strayed into the out of bounds areas. We had sunshine on the first day with a beautiful evening at the overnight camp. Trying to get my 14 year old daughter up and going on the Sunday morning with the rain pelting down was interesting and we were last pair to start at 08:59! However the cloud base was high and it wasn’t too bad a day for navigation at all. A fair few Carnethies were competing, Eoin Lennon & Iain Whiteside won the B course with John & Chris Busby 4th. Morag & Graham McIntyre were first mixed vets in the short score and also got overall British Championship prizes. My daughter got the Kevin the Teenager award for Best Strop in a Bog but perked up after being force fed chocolate buttons.
Results here: http://www.rocmountainmarathon.com/results/2019-results/
Nicola Dunn