Carnethy’s Andrew Fallas finished 1st in Glenshee, only 16 seconds separated 1st and 2nd.
Carnethy’s Catriona Graves finished 2nd and Sophie Horrocks finished 3rd in the women’s overall, behind the seemingly unbeatable Jill Stephen from HBT.
Glenshee9 was the 2nd of now 5 races in the 2021 Scottish Hill Runners Championship, details at scottishhillrunners.uk.
With the Met Office yellow weather warning gone runners still faced poor visibility in the first half of race. With no markers between the 9 Munro’s good navigation was critical. A few groups of runners did appear from the abyss after wrong turns. In the second half the cloud cover cleared offering better conditions, but runners still had the biggest climb of the race up Munro Carn Aosda near the ski centre to content with. The final finish presented various lines down the side of the chair lift, left seemed to be the unobvious best option. Great turnout and results from Carnethy overall.
All profits from race go to Braemar Mountain Rescue Team who provided race cover.
More about the race see http://braemarscotland.co.uk/glenshee9/
Full results:sportident.co.uk/results/Glenshee9
Carnethy results:
Position | Name | Category | Finish Time | Prizes |
1st | Andrew Fallas | M40 | 03:15:35 | 1st overall & v40* |
10th | Andrew Lamont | M40 | 03:44:07 | 1st v40 |
15th | Andrew Macrae | M50 | 03:47:39 | 1st v50 |
18th | Stewart Whitlie | M50 | 03:50:54 | 2nd v50 |
19th | Michael Reid | M40 | 03:51:03 | 3rd v40 |
20th | Eliot Sedman | M40 | 03:53:03 | |
22nd | Catriona Graves | WSEN | 03:53:27 | 2nd lady |
29th | Sophie Horrocks | WSEN | 04:00:48 | 3rd lady |
37th | Jonathon Marks | MSEN | 04:08:30 | |
48th | John Morris | MSEN | 04:16:24 | |
53rd | Helen Fallas | WSEN | 04:18:07 | |
63rd | Allen Flockhart | M40 | 04:24:54 | |
64th | Andrew Bladon | MSEN | 04:25:06 | |
82nd | Neil McLure | M50 | 04:41:48 | |
84th | Fergus Johnston | MSEN | 04:43:30 | |
105th | Michelle Hetherington | W50 | 05:12:44 | 1st v50 lady |
109th | Alan Konopka | MSEN | 05:18:32 | |
115th | Gio MacDonald | M40 | 05:21:59 | |
124th | Alexander Kinninmonth | M40 | 05:30:05 | |
136th | Mark Hardy | M40 | 05:39:01 | |
146th | Sam Gillies | MSEN | 05:46:47 | |
154th | Richard Wilson | MSEN | 06:05:33 |
*v40 prizes given to next best 3
Andrew Lamont