Trophy Winners
Burns Scott Trophy – winner John Busby – for organising the mini mountain marathon events
Scald Law Trophy – winner Jasmin Paris – for winning the Spine race by 11 hours and 55 mins!
Allermuir Junior Trophy – no winner this year
As no nominees were suggested by attendees, it was agreed that this Trophy would not be awarded in 2019.
The proposal of Amber Cameron was rejected as Amber Cameron was, at time of AGM, a 2 year and 4 month old dog, hence marginally over 16 dog years, using the widely utilized, but scientifically unvalidated conversion factor, accepting that Amber was, indeed, a family member of the club.
JBF Trophy for Best Overseas Performance – Olly Stephenson – for running the Haute Route Pyrenées during a year of chemotherapy
Club champs – Alan Hogg – ran 14 of the 17 qualifying races (although tied with 6 points from 6 races, with Andy Fallas and Michelle Etherington, they only ran 7 and 6 races respectively)
Billy’s Goat on a Gruff – Lucas Lefèvre – For his athletic improvement and enthusiasm for the club, including organising Wednesday evening runs
Radical runner – Alex McVey – For his impressively keen running of 30 Pentland tops in January in celebration of his 30th birthday
London Marathon Place – Peter MacDonald
Members of the Racing Club attending the AGM were given the opportunity to enter a ballot for 2020 London Marathon. As no member of the Racing Club expressed any inclination to run around the streets of London, Peter MacDonald volunteered himself to take the position. This was accepted on the condition that he ‘cross your heart, hope to die, finger in eye…’ pinky-promised to join the Racing club for 2020. Let’s see!
Club Handicap – Scott Robson
Wooden Spoon – Several nominees of varying ineptitude were rated on the cock-ometer but Mark Hartree’s attempt to release a poo unnoticed into the wild only to be stymied by a black lab and its diligent poo-bag wielding owner was judged a worthy winner.
Nicola Dunn
Prize Giving
New president Mark Hartree took centre-elevated-chair at the annual prize-giving and party on Wednesday evening. What a night for the fellow – celebrating his birthday and walking away with Carnethy’s most-prized Wooden Spoon award – the lengths he went to in achieving this don’t even barely bare thinking about. Or was it just a load of fake s%#t in keeping with the times…..?
Around 100 members turned up to Hemma for an enjoyable evening of conversation, food, drink, a quiz, prizes and much more. As always, the prize-winners and those nominated (see below) provide incredible inspiration (well, except Mark) as we head into 2020.
Thanks to Dorothy, Nicki, Nikki and Sean for helping with the quiz, photos, prizes, and much more. And also to Graham Nash and Bob Johnson for bringing new levels of precision to assessing the Wooden Spoon Award winner.
*Apologies to those Veg-eaters who missed out on food because of ‘shy vegetarians’. For next year, we’ll have to have a Veggies-eat-first policy or establish a quota of ‘Meat-eaters who rather fancy the veg option’ in calculating the food order!
Ken Fordyce