After a great race, the Carnethy Senior A Team came home victorious in the Devil’s Burdens Relay from over 150 teams on Saturday. This race is always treated like an unofficial Scottish Relay championship with all the top hill running clubs taking part, so a great result. They were not the fastest on any of the four legs, but were always there or there about, so were able to take the lead on the 3rd leg and hold it for the final leg (and that was despite Andy Fallas raising the average age of the team considerably!). Congratulations.
Carnethy also had a few second places – 2nd Senior Women’s Team, 2nd Over 40 Team and 2nd Over 60 Team. The Senior Women were only a minute down at the end, after over 4 hours of racing – very close. Also very close was the Over 40 Team which looked to have the better of a strong Shettleston squad and only lost out after one of our runners injured himself (something that could happen to anybody) but bravely finished in obvious pain to keep the team in contention. Another good result was the 3rd place of the Carnethy O/50 team.
In total 12 Carnethy teams took part – that’s 72 runners – a great showing. This year the routes had all changed to make the changeovers in the same place, so there was no driving round the hills. It made a more sociable occasional as everyone was at the start/finish to cheer on runners and see the race unfolding (and take shelter in the club tent!).
All the results (and course maps), including leg splits are here.
A list of all 72 Carnethy runners is below, including some very new members – hope you enjoyed the day out !
Pos. Category Leg 1 Leg 2 Cum. Time Leg 3 Cum. Time Leg 4 Total
1 Open Senior Will Rigg 00:48:15 Andrew Fallas & Finn Lydon 00:59:08 01:47:23 Alexander Chepelin & Ali Masson 00:51:21 02:38:44 Tom Lines 00:39:38 03:18:22
7 Open 40+ James Britton 00:44:59 Dessie Flanagan & Eliot Sedman 00:58:49 01:43:48 Michael Reid & Drew Sharkey 01:05:04 02:48:52 Mark Johnston 00:43:24 03:32:16
17 Open Senior Iain Gilmore 00:51:33 Rob Owen & Declan Valters 01:09:48 02:01:21 Anthony Hemmings & Konrad Rawlik 01:02:29 03:03:50 Alex McVey 00:41:49 03:45:39
27 Women Senior Jasmin Paris 00:57:57 Angela Mudge & Jill Mykura 01:08:52 02:06:49 Helen Fallas & Elizabeth Leason 01:06:42 03:13:31 Anne-Sophie Ruget 00:51:44 04:05:15
44 Open Senior Paul Newnham 00:55:57 Bob Johnson & Norman Brown 01:35:15 02:31:12 Richard Wilson & Mark Lunt 01:07:56 03:39:08 Andrew Macrae 00:43:21 04:22:29
45 Open Senior Scott Seefeldt 00:50:34 Alan Konopka & Bartosz Burza 01:24:23 02:14:57 Ryan Forgie & Alex Kinninmonth 01:12:14 03:27:11 Fergus Johnston 00:57:43 04:24:54
52 Open 50+ Neil McLure 00:51:52 Mike Andrew & Alan Renville 01:13:19 02:05:11 Neil Burnett & Graeme Dunbar 01:07:05 03:12:16 Mike Lynch 01:19:08 04:31:24
70 Open 50+ Bruce Smith 00:53:47 Roddy McRae & Mark Hartree 01:32:20 02:26:07 Olly Stephenson & Andrew Patience 01:14:54 03:41:01 Billy Elliott 01:01:50 04:42:51
79 Women 40+ Maggie Creber 01:11:39 Jane Jackson & Joanne Anderson 01:28:56 02:40:35 Kirsty McBirnie & Michelle Hetherington 01:13:22 03:53:57 Sarah Massey 00:58:31 04:52:28
83 Open Senior Georgios Dalakouras 00:49:08 Richard Chandler & Alexander Maskell 01:39:51 02:28:59 Tracy Ballinger & Rachael Paul 01:20:53 03:49:52 Alison Caldwell 01:06:15 04:56:07
111 Open 60+ Robin Sloan 01:14:42 Ian Jackson & Pete Cain 01:46:49 03:01:31 Gordon Cameron & Andy Spenceley 01:16:34 04:18:05 Brian Howie 01:10:56 05:29:01
149 Women 50+ Sally Cross 01:26:37 Dorothy Elliott & Joanne Thin 01:44:58 03:11:35 Margaret Forrest & Cali Ingham 02:03:10 05:14:45 Hilary Spenceley 01:01:35 06:16:20