Distance: 7km | Ascent: 550m | Duration: 19 days | Feature: giant steps | Runners: 59
Eóin Lennon – course was “Tough, short and sharp.”
Proper lung buster route. Good fun.” says John. “Eóin has broken me!” says Ali. Andrew Spenceley – “Had to gate crash a wedding on top of Haggis Knowe”. Weddings weren’t the only problem, navigation on and off Whinny proved too much for some, including Eóin. Hyman’s Knoll is now a well-known Edinburgh land mark, not just another obscure mound on Whinny Hill.
As expected, handicap times were tougher this time, only 8 managed to beat their prediction. A further 10 were less than a 1 minute off, but couldn’t pull off anything special.
Despite some corner cutting into carpark, no penalties given. Any gains will be disadvantage for next handicap times.
Handicap – Top 3 places:
Congratulations to Alex Coakleythe handicap winner. Alex – “This is the greatest day of my life”. Training plan is definitely showing good results on the uphills.
Position | Name |
#1 | Alex Coakley |
#2 | Mark Lunt |
#3 | Gordon Eadie |
Championship leader: Richard Wilson
It is your best 3 point scores that count in the series, so the eventual winner may not have even run yet!
Wednesday race winners
Two mini handicap races took place on the Wednesday evenings. On average members are performing better in the Wednesday races.
Name | Race date |
Mark Lunt | Winner 19thMay |
James Britton | Winner 26thMay |
Ladies – Fastest course times
Déjà vu from Capelaw order. Elizabeth “Running it in thick mist might not have been the best plan” – still good run time.
Name | Run time |
Elizabeth Leason | 49.36 |
Clare Mcdonnell | 57.35 |
Imogen Bevan | 58.35 |
Gentlemen – Fastest course times
Eóin set the Special fastest time and the only one to go sub-40 minutes.A sub-40 unlikely in the next handicap.
Name | Run time |
Eóin Lennon | 38.07 |
Andrew Fallas | 40.31 |
Andrew Lamont | 43.58 |
Teams
Red team down on runners for this handicap. Alex the handicapper gave them some much needed bonus points. Blue team again scoring highest and building a series lead.
Description | Blue | Green | Yellow | Red | Total |
A.S. Eóin Special | 26 | 21 | 18 | 16 | 81 |
Series Total | 67 | 61 | 53 | 51 | 232 |
Results:
Position | First name | Surname | Run time | Handicap time | Finish time | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alex | Coakley | 44.18 | 33.11 | 77.29 | 50.00 |
2 | Mark | Lunt | 44.54 | 33.21 | 78.15 | 49.15 |
3 | Gordon | Eadie | 68.29 | 9.52 | 78.21 | 48.31 |
4 | Andrew | Lamont | 43.58 | 34.25 | 78.23 | 47.46 |
5 | Dessie | Flanagan | 44.12 | 34.13 | 78.25 | 46.61 |
6 | Richard | Wilson | 50.55 | 28.08 | 79.03 | 45.76 |
7 | Drew | Sharkey | 45.27 | 33.38 | 79.05 | 44.92 |
8 | Rob | Hemming | 47.43 | 31.37 | 79.20 | 44.07 |
9 | James | Britton | 44.11 | 35.25 | 79.36 | 43.22 |
10 | Sebastien | Menu | 48.31 | 31.10 | 79.41 | 42.37 |
11 | Imogen | Bevan | 58.35 | 21.15 | 79.50 | 41.53 |
12 | Eóin | Lennon | 38.07 | 41.46 | 79.53 | 40.68 |
13 | Kit | Craig | 53.17 | 26.36 | 79.53 | 40.68 |
14 | Andrew | Davison | 54.07 | 26.03 | 80.10 | 38.98 |
15 | Alexander | Kinninmonth | 53.57 | 26.16 | 80.13 | 38.14 |
16 | Steve | Best | 50.01 | 30.18 | 80.19 | 37.29 |
17 | Anthony | Hemmings | 49.50 | 30.32 | 80.22 | 35.59 |
18 | Michael | Reid | 45.06 | 35.15 | 80.21 | 36.44 |
19 | Neil | McLure | 49.36 | 30.56 | 80.32 | 34.75 |
20 | Craig | Hogg | 47.04 | 33.31 | 80.35 | 33.90 |
21 | Elizabeth | Leason | 49.36 | 31.08 | 80.44 | 33.05 |
22 | Martha | Koerner | 66.21 | 14.25 | 80.46 | 32.20 |
23 | Alex | Sutherland | 51.44 | 29.02 | 80.46 | 32.20 |
24 | Luke | Blackbourn | 48.03 | 33.14 | 81.17 | 30.51 |
25 | Andrew | Fallas | 40.31 | 40.53 | 81.24 | 29.66 |
26 | Gordon | Cameron | 55.44 | 26.09 | 81.53 | 28.81 |
27 | Andrew | Spenceley | 55.12 | 26.45 | 81.57 | 27.97 |
28 | Phil | Hall | 49.03 | 33.11 | 82.14 | 27.12 |
29 | Clare | Mcdonnell | 57.35 | 24.46 | 82.21 | 26.27 |
30 | Garry | Forfar | 55.43 | 26.55 | 82.38 | 25.42 |
31 | John | Morris | 47.29 | 35.32 | 83.01 | 24.58 |
32 | Philip | Brocklehurst | 53.56 | 29.07 | 83.03 | 23.73 |
33 | Stewart | Whitlie | 48.29 | 34.44 | 83.13 | 22.88 |
34 | Douglas | Macqueen | 55.15 | 28.31 | 83.46 | 22.03 |
35 | Raphael | Bleakley | 66.52 | 17.02 | 83.54 | 21.19 |
36 | Stephen | Croft | 62.28 | 21.28 | 83.56 | 20.34 |
37 | Jamie | Gillespie | 55.32 | 28.55 | 84.27 | 19.49 |
38 | Joel | Chaney | 57.12 | 27.20 | 84.32 | 18.64 |
39 | Pete | Cain | 68.29 | 17.09 | 85.38 | 17.80 |
40 | Donald | Johnston | 62.58 | 23.52 | 86.50 | 16.95 |
41 | Graham | McIntyre | 68.59 | 18.07 | 87.06 | 16.10 |
42 | Iain | Swan | 61.17 | 26.04 | 87.21 | 15.25 |
43 | Aron | Mitchell | 67.54 | 20.41 | 88.35 | 14.41 |
44 | Morag | McIntyre | 71.36 | 17.37 | 89.13 | 13.56 |
45 | Mark | Hartree | 72.12 | 17.24 | 89.36 | 12.71 |
46 | Rob | Owen | 58.21 | 31.19 | 89.40 | 11.86 |
47 | Hilary | Spenceley | 80.35 | 9.34 | 90.09 | 11.02 |
48 | James | Hardie | 59.38 | 30.36 | 90.14 | 10.17 |
49 | Gareth | Callaghan | 64.58 | 26.15 | 91.13 | 9.32 |
50 | Nicki | Innes | 81.23 | 9.56 | 91.19 | 8.47 |
51 | Willie | Gibson | 83.07 | 8.48 | 91.55 | 7.63 |
52 | Craig | Henderson | 67.36 | 31.46 | 99.22 | 4.24 |
53 | Nicola | Dunn | 87.00 | 10.09 | 97.09 | 6.78 |
54 | Richard | Chandler | 78.20 | 19.08 | 97.28 | 5.93 |
55 | Sean | Walker | 82.36 | 16.02 | 98.38 | 5.08 |
56 | Fiona | Mackenzie | 106.42 | 0.00 | 106.42 | 3.39 |
57 | Eleanor | Mackenzie | 106.00 | 1.27 | 107.27 | 2.54 |
58 | Al | McGowan | 108.24 | 0.00 | 108.24 | 1.69 |
59 | Sharon | Bergert | 109.47 | 18.21 | 128.08 | 0.85 |
Those looking for more of a breakdown on data see Google sheet.