There was Carnethy action down in Peebles on Sunday in both the Glentress marathon and half races. It’s a course that gets tweaked every year for one reason or another, but guaranteed there will be switch backs – loads of them. Marathon runners get to run two laps of the half marathon course.
Sasha won by a considerable margin in a time that shouldn’t be possible off-road with over 1,600m of ascent.
Alan Renville finished 2nd in MV50 and could only say great things about the course: “Not actually too bad for mud, as for the fire roads, they are just soul destroying.”
Joe Wright won the half race running under Deeside for this one, with a comfortable gap ahead of second. Laura Dozier was 4th female in a fast field.
Link: Marathon results
Carnethy results:
Pos | Name | Net Time | Category | Cat Pos |
1 | Sasha Chepelin | 03:18:12 | Open | 1 |
10 | Luke Blackbourn | 04:35:18 | Open | 7 |
31 | Paul Foster | 05:24:51 | MV40 | 11 |
35 | Alan Renville | 05:26:50 | MV50 | 2 |
Link: Half Marathon results
Pos | Name | Net Time | Category | Cat Pos |
1 | Joseph Wright | 01:34:53 | Open | 1 |
31 | Laura Dozier | 02:04:20 | Open | 3 |
64 | Iona Allan | 02:17:11 | Open | 6 |
79 | Alan Konopka | 02:22:51 | Open | 45 |
221 | Sandy Paterson | 03:11:18 | MV70 | 1 |
234 | Carolyn Dyson | 03:24:45 | FV60 | 4 |
Photos here from Grand Day Out Photography.
Andrew Lamont