As I sit here looking at the pouring rain, I remember I haven’t summarised the AltC5. For those who did this series we had some really memorable runs in stunning weather slotted in amongst a damp summer. I had high hopes of using the residual good effects of the injections in my knees to do all the routes but was struck down by some vomiting bug after Caerketton and missed the last two. Boo.
Doing all five races in 5 days is tough for a whole lot of reasons, even if you extend it to the weekend. Hilary managed the Cromrie Relays the weekend before making six races in a week, and I am tempted to try and blame the water of Lochore from my Sunday prior triathlon for not completing five, but that is a stretch. Nonetheless these seven Carnethies were organised, fit, selfish and/or focussed and committed, or just wanted to win a beer for doing all five races:
42 runners did one race and 14 did 3 or more races. There was no magic formula other than adding times together. The quickest overall were:
Logging your own results online worked really well and I have to thank Andy Lamont and his super spreadsheet that saved me loads of time and effort to summarise. For those who didn’t manage the week, the routes remain on the website if you want a run idea.
For all results see: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UBclu-beFRdIpKi6moXJJBPZ3PeNvmAfA0Z9lJoovzQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
PRIZES: There are prizes in beer which could be available at the Xmas party (or contact Neil Burnett and go and collect your beers).
Mark Hartree