News Jan - Mar 2003
- 31st March 2003
Club Saddleworth Trip
The Club trip to Saddleworth was a great success, despite the poor turnout, with Howard and his Club making all 8 of us very welcome.
Read about the weekend in 'Articles'
- 30th March 2003
Ladies win Road Relays at Livingston
A great result for the Carnethy Women at the Scottish National Road Relays in Livingston, when they won the 18 mile 4-stage race against strong competition. The team, made up of Tracey Brindley, Lyn Wilson, Jill Tait and Angela Mudge were fastest of every leg and won by more than 4 minutes over second-placed City of Glasgow. City of Edinburgh ladies were 3rd, and Lothians 7th. The race took place on a bright and breezy Saturday afternoon and the ladies' course comprised two short legs of 3.15 miles and two long legs of 5.8 miles. The men's race comprised three short and three long legs, and was won by Racing Club Edinburgh in 2:14:27.
Results are:
1st Carnethy 1.46.45
2nd City of Glasgow 1.51.02
3rd City of Edinburgh 1.53.52 Leg 1 (3.15 miles) Tracey 17.51
Leg 2 (5.8 miles) Lyn 35.26
Leg 3 (3.15 miles) Jill 19.54
Leg 4 (5.8 Miles) Angela 33.34
Willie Mykura.
- 25th March 2003
Don Morrison Memorial Edale Skyline Fell Race March 23rd 21 miles 4500 ft
The conditions were ideal for Sunday's Edale Skyline race, the day was sunny with a clear blue sky and a cool breeze on the tops, and the running was made easy as the ground was bone dry almost all the way. Measures to reduce erosion required a diversion of the route into the Vale of Edale between the south and north skylines, so adding an extra climb up 'Jacobs Ladder' on the Pennine Way for the first time this year.
An excellent run by Sally Newman of Calder Valley gave her first place in the ladies race, with Helen Diamantedes (Carnethy) finishing 2nd, while Jill Tait (Carnethy), finished 4th - fresh from her run at Chapelgill the day before.
Willie Mykura was 9th V40.
130 Finishers Full Results1 Mark Hayman Male DPFR 2:49:55 17 Sally Newman LV40 (1st Lady) Calder Valley 3:16:34 30 William Mykura V40 Carnethy 3:29:24 32 Helen Diamantedes Lady (2nd Lady) Carnethy 3:32:36 44 Jill Tait Lady Carnethy 3:44:11
Willie Mykura
- 23rd March 2003
Criffel Hill Race
Only one Carnethy Member (2nd Claim) turned up for the Criffel Hill Race.
Results
Organisers Report :
Another great race, with a free beer bottle for those waiting for the prizegiving, thanks to sponsorship from Sulwath Brewers, who make Criffel Ale (among others). The weather was superb, hazy sunshine and resulted in a good turnout of 62 for 2003. Thanks go to Westies, Solway and others, including Moffat Mountain Rescue for turning out in strength and assisting.The race had 61 finishers, and one DNF (sprained ankle).
Thanks to all for a superb day, and don't forget Screel is at the beginning of April if you are doing the "Dumfries and Galloway Hillrunning" Series
Peter Baxter
- 23rd March 2003
Chapelgill Hill Race
Fun Run Report:
On a glorious Spring afternoon 4 of the Carnethy juniors entered the Chappelgill Fun Run near Broughton. Scott (9) and Kirsty (6) Cameron were joined by Jake (9) and Ellie (7?) Gray. Like the senior race it was a straight up and down.
There were over 20 entries with 2 Lothian Juniors finishing strongly in the top 2 places. Jake was not far behind in 4th place. Ellie came in in front of Kirsty who beat her brother who had a stitch--or at least that was his excuse.
For 10p they each got a juice, chocolate bar and official certificate. OAPs could enter for half price with no SAL supplement but Bill Gauld declined and just watched along with rest of us.
A good race was followed by a play in the burn whilst the senior race took place.
Gordon Cameron
Senior Race:
Carnethy did well at Chapelgill, with Angela getting a new ladies record, Adam Ward winning 1st V40, JBF first V50 and Keith Burns winning 1st V60.
Full results on SHR website.
Results (first 3 plus Carnethy members)1 Phil Davies Borrowdale 18:50 2 Tim Lenton Lothian 19:06 3 Brian Marshall HELP 19:20 6 (1st V40) Adam Ward Carnethy 19:52 7 (2nd V40) Stewart Whitlie Carnethy 19:57 11 Adrian Davis Fife 20:31 12 Ronnie Gallagher Westerlands 20:36 18 Graeme Bartlett Carnethy 21:23 22 (1st V50) John Blair-Fish Carnethy 21:54 23 (1st Lady) Angela Mudge Carnethy 22:10 (New Record) 32 (2nd Lady) Lyn Wilson Carnethy 23:43 37 Graeme Carracher Carnethy 24:08 42 (3rd Lady) Jill Tait Carnethy 24:39 44 (1st V60) Keith Burns Carnethy 24:48 55 Derek Bearhop Carnethy 26:14 57 Gordon Cameron Carnethy 26:54 64 Robin Haynes Carnethy 27:33 65 Colin Pritchard Carnethy 27:54 67 John Muhl Carnethy 28:20 71 (2nd L40) Moira Stewart Carnethy 28:33 74 Brian Howie Carnethy 28:49 85 Nessa Findlay Carnethy 30:10 86 Nigel Rose Carnethy 30:47 91 Ian Nimmo Carnethy 32:08 
- 19th March 2003
Club Hill Running Championship Update
After his weekend running in Ireland with Geraint, Rickie Simpson jumps into the lead in the Club Hill Running Chamionship.
- 20th March 2003
Crow Moon Night Run - Bonaly
Crow Moon ? , more like No Moon!
There was a good turn out of about 16 members for the last night run of the season. Unfortunately the Moon forgot that the run was on and turned up as we left the pub.
It was dark at the start but that was no excuse for Nigel as he donned his new Carnethy pertex and wondered what the nose bag at the front was for. Then we headed of for the top of Capelaw with a few headlights still appearing (I herded up the late-comers and tried to catch up). Once we reached the summit we headed off at 10 second intervals to find the concealed cairn on the south side of Capelaw. We had the traditional photo at the cairn and then we traversed to Maidens Cleugh where Colin fell in to a bog and being in a rush managed to leave Nigel and Bill behind (rumours that Nigel's hood blew up over his face leaving him thinking that he had run into yellow cloud were unfounded), but after running off Harbour Hill and back to the car park we found the lost souls alive and well.
Then it was off to the Spylaw Inn where we partook of a very welcome feed.
Thanks to Colin Pritchard for organising the event.
Willie Gibson
- 19th March 2003
Irish Mountain Running Association: Championship Races
Two Carnethy members competed in two IMRA races at the weekend in Donegal, Ireland. Glorious weather and spectacular scenery made these two very enjoyable races.
Saturday 16th March: Glengesh Horseshoe Race.
This was a 5.6km course with 370m ascent/descent over some rough boggy terrain. Some aspects of the descent included 4-6ft drops into large knee-deep peat bogs (loads of fun). Geraint Florida-James was first Carnethy member (34:40 min) and 3rd overall behind World Masters Champion, Robin Bryson (31:58) who won the race. Rickie Simpson was 2nd Carnethy member and 6th overall with a time of 40:05 min. Soon to be Carnethy member, Susan Gray, had a very good run finishing 3rd lady and 12th overall (48:35).
There were 27 finishers.
1st: Robin Bryson (Newcastle AC) M40 - 31:58
2nd: Paul Nolan (GEN-DSD) M - 32:14
3rd: Geraint Florida-James (Carnethy HRC) M - 34:40
6th: Rickie Simpson (Carnethy HRC) M - 40:05
Sunday 17th March: Errigal uphill only
This was the first race in The King of the Mountain series, which took in the peak of Mackoght before finishing at the top of Errigal mountain (3.7km 660m). After an initial trample through some good old boggy terrain, the short rocky descent off Mackoght took you straight on to the CLIMB! Finishing at the top of Errigal and admiring the awesome view of the Donegal mountains made all the hard efforts worthwhile. Despite the hangovers, both Carnethy members managed to complete the race (and actually ran better than the day before).
There were 30 finishers.
1st: Robin Bryson (Newcastle AC) M40 - 31:38
2nd: Paul Nolan (GEN-DSD) M - 32:10
3rd: Geraint Florida-James (Carnethy HRC) M - 33:19
5th: Rickie Simpson (Carnethy HRC) M - 39:50
More details of these races can be found at http://www.iol.ie/~imra/
If anyone fancies competing in these races next year contact Geraint Florida-James.
Rickie Simpson.
- 19th March 2003
Club Hill Running Championship Update
After his weekend run in the Wuthering Hike Brian Howie jumps into the lead in the Club Hill Running Chamionship.
- 18th March 2003
Inverness Half Marathon
Although I too would have rather have been running over the hills on Sunday, a whole winter's road training dictated that Inverness just had to be done.
I can highly recommend Tracy Brindley as a coach (although she probably won't be recommending me as a pupil - I was supposed to run 1.15.00)!
The weather was excellent, the course was fast, the sharp end was very keenly contested (apart from Mr Pryde), and I was first (and I think only?) Carnethy - that's as long as you don't count those that run on the roads for other clubs. I think Lars and Andy L. also ran but I cant find them in the results!
Relevant results:
6th: Ray Ward (C.O.E)- 1.12.57
15th: Garry MacInnes (Carnethy) - 1.16.10
17th: Adam Ward (C.O.E) - 1.16.19
23rd: Alec Keith (HBT) - 1.17.36
33rd: Keith Broadfoot (C.O.E) - 1.18.28
931 finishers.
Full results at http://www.invernesshalfmarathon.co.uk
Garry MacInnes.
- 17th March 2003
Borders Winter Cross Country Series, Race 6: Galashiels 16th March
The final race of the series was a short 4 miler through the forest fields above Gala, with not too much climb and very little mud on a dry course. The race was won by Keith Lyall of City of Edinburgh in 22.34. Jill Tait finished first lady in 20th place (25.39), and so won the overall ladies championship and ladies senior trophy, running for Athletics Club Eyemouth.
Marbeth Shiell was 3th senior lady (27.40) and 4th in the series, running for Carnethy.
Willie Mykura was 6th vet (25.00) and also 6th vet in the series.
Other Carnethy participants in this well organised but low-key series were Paul Morris and Dougie Shiell.
A good series for a Carnethy challenge on the team title next year?
Willie Mykura
- 17th March 2003
Better Things To Do
A few Club members that couldn't find a race last weekend decided to climb a hill instead.
Here are a few photos taken on Sunday on the Buachailles.
- 16th March 2003
Wuthering Hike
The Scots did well at yesterdays Wuthering Hike in Haworth. The race started in a slight mist and a cool breeze at 8am, the weather slowly improved and by midday was bright sunshine. The 31 mile race takes you over moor and tracks through Bronte Country and visits Todmorden, Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall on the way. The hotdogs available en route were very welcome.
Kate Jenkins was first lady in a record time of 4:28
Willie Gibson and Moira Stewart were firt mixed couple in 5:17.
Duncan Baker and Brian Howie did 5:10.
Don Naylor of HBT won the race in 4:08.
Full Results
- 6th March 2003
Glentress Duathlon Last Race in Series
On Sunday, over 70 people competed in the last (the long race) of the 3-race series. Several Carnethy showed their prowess on two wheels as well as two legs. Stuart Whitlie was 6th on the day and Lyn Wilson was 21st finisher and 1st lady. Geraint Florida-James (9th) and Gary MacInnes (12th) also performed well and if you look at the Hub in the Forest's web site you'll see which other Carnethy runners possess mountain bikes and enjoy a bit of cross-training! Mountain-biking at Glentress is certainly one of the things you must try before you're XX!!
Marathon Des Sables
Over 20 people turned up last night for the talk by Russell Stout on his "Scald Law Trophy" winning exploits on the Marathon Des Sables.
An inspiring talk.
Many Thanks to Russell.
Pentland Skyline Archives
Thanks to Andy Spenceley we now have an almost full archive of the Pentland Skyline Results.
They can be found from our Race Information Page.
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- 5th March 2003
Borders Winter Cross Country Series, Race 5: St Abb's Head
The fifth (and best!!) race of the winter series was hosted by Athletics Club Eyemouth. This cracking wee hilly course starts close to the scenic St Abbs Head and runs over a course estimated at 4 miles. The weather held fair on Sunday with a strong head wind in places. There were a few familiar faces within the 55 competitors with a very strong performance by Marbeth Shiell swooping in ahead of many senior runners (second lady, finishing 24th overall in 30.50).
The race was won by Andy Kitchen of Lothian in a time of 25.14, followed by Michael McGovern of Moorfoots in 25.35.
Other Carnethies running the penultimate race of the series were Willie Mykura (29.17), Jill Tait (29.24, first lady) and Dougie Shiell (37.30).
The last race is at Gala in just under 2 weeks on Sunday 16th March.
- 3rd March 2003
Bishop Hill Race - >New member Claire Williams is 1st lady
There was a good turnout for this short race on Sunday afternoon. Brian Marshall won and Scott Fraser was second. Full results. The junior race was won by another promising Carnethy girl, Martha Aitken. - 28th February 2003
Carnethy 5 Quiz - Results
A grand total of 3 (yes, three!) sets of answers were received in response to the Carnethy 5 quiz, which was included in the Carnethy 5 2003 Race Programme for 15 February. 460 folk had completed the race. Hill runners would appear to be rather more interested in hill running than in doing quizzes about hill running - notwithstanding that the prize on offer was advertised as being "valuable" and "worth winning"!
John Blair-Fish (Carnethy), quick off the mark with his entry, looked like having the field entirely to himself; but last gasp submissions by Margaret Forrest (Carnethy) and Fabienne Thompson (Carnegie) deprived JBF of a guaranteed gold medal place. In the event, no one got all the answers that were being sought - though they all did very well. It has therefore been decided to split the prize three ways - so that "Everyone's a winner".
Well done John, Margaret and Fabienne.
So, with the prize going three ways, JBF gets free entry to next year's Carnethy 5 race, Margaret gets a commemorative Carnethy race T-shirt, and Fabienne gets a Tiso voucher.
- 24th February 2003
Club Trip to Loch Morlich
The Club trip to Loch Morlich last weekend was great fun with an ascent of Bynack More and a play on the Ice of Loch Avon on Saturday with a few alternative mountain biking and mountain boarding trips (and falls).
The wind got up on Sunday so there were a few longer low level runs through the Caledonian pine forests.
- 23rd February 2003
Carnethy Girls Win The Nationals
Angela Mudge, Lyn Wilson and Jill Tait were 4th,7th and 10th respectively to win first team in the National Cross Country Championships on Saturday.
Full results are on www.runningresults.freeserve.co.uk
- 18th February 2003
460 complete the Carnethy 5
Dave Rodgers was first and Nick Sharp was second and Jim Davies was third in this year's Carnethy 5.
The ladies was won by Angela Mudge (seen below) in battle dress, Louise Sharp was second and Lyn Wilson was third.
The first vet was Mark Rigby (4th) and first lady Vet was Nicola Davies.
Full results
Team results
Prize winners
Scald
Law Junior Race and Fun Run
The competitors made the most of the nice weather at this years race, with Kyle Greig and Jemma Toner winning in record times. Twelve runners completed the challenging route up and down Scald Law, with a further two completing the fun run to the col and back. Results
14th February 2003 - 11th February 2003
Night Run at Flotterstone
16 people turned up for the night run that reccies the only bit of the Carnethy 5 course that we are not allowed to go on....
It was a wonderful night with a starlit sky and a wee bit moon to light the way over Turnhouse and Carnethy.
I decided to run there but a slight error in judgement left me up to my knees in cow slurry. I was certainly noticed when I arrived.
Willie Gibson
- 11th February 2003
Devil's Burdens Results and Report
Full Report and Results
- 11th February 2003
'700th' Carnethy 5 hill race
To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Roslin this year, there will be a special prize of a replica Wallace Claymore to the first runner home in authentic 1303 gear. (no lycra or fleece allowed!!)
So remember it's not enough to wear your running vest and shorts, we want to see all folk out in resplendent 1303 battle dress. Anything goes ... from kilts to chain-mail or leather and face paint - just use your imagination !!!
- 9th February 2003
Club Championship up and running
The first points have been awarded for the new club championship. Go to the club information page and click on Club Championship to see the rankings so far.
- 8th February 2003
Devil's Burdens
Five Carnethy teams took part in the Devil's Burdens relay this year.
Carnethy were first men and first women.
The vets were 21st. The next Carnethy team needed to add 20? years to Jon Muhl's age to all be first over 55 team.
- 23rd January 2003
Haggis on Craiglockhart
The Wednesday night run from Kings Buildings celebrated Burns on top of Craiglockhart Hill with the full fare, courtesy of Willie and Moira.
The Carnethy Grace
Some hae fun and dinnae run,
Some nae fun, but want it
We hae fun because we run,
An sae the Lord be thankit
- 22nd January 2003
Thirlestane Castle Cross-Country
On Sunday 85 'hard-core' cross-country runners set off over the new course set by Lauderdale. This race was the third of the winter series set over 6 different venues and organised by Borders clubs. The boggy route took in part of the Southern Upland Way and two hunt jumps required negotiating before the course skirted beside a section of the Scottish Championship horse trials course. Some people could have used a horse, including Jill Tait who fell into a section of river she had tried to jump. The course was approximately 4 miles, but the heavy going made this seem like further. The last stages of the race ran past the doors of the castle, with a nice gentle slope to the finish. Awesome. The next race in the series is at Dunbar on 9th February.
The race was won by John Wilkinson of Lauder in 26.20, with Keith Lyall of City of Edinburgh runner up in 26.27.
Carnethies spotted in action were:
Paul Morris (31.23, 11th Vet)
Willie Mykura (30.11, 8th Vet)
Jill Tait (30.05, 1st Lady)
Marbeth Shiell (36.37, 8th Lady)
Dougie Shiell (40.20, 28th Male)
- 22nd January 2003
Glentress Duathlon Series II of III - The Short Race
A good number of Carnethy Members took part in the second race of the series last weekend.
Lyn Wilson was first lady.
- 21st January 2003
Carnethy Hill Running Championship
Full information is now available for the new Carnethy Club Hill Running Championship.
- 18th January 2003
Scottish Islands Peaks Race Dinner
John Coyle had everyone in stitches doing the presentation at the dinner.
- 16th January 2003
Wolf Crags Night Run
14 people turned up for the Night Run on a rather wild and windy night.
- 15th Jan 2003
Scottish Hill Runners Championship 2003
Details of the SHR Championship are available on this site as a pdf file. Four of the six selected races count towards the final score and one race from each category must be run. The races are Chapelgill (Short), Knockfarrel (Short), Dollar (Medium), Durisdeer (Medium), Stuc a'Chroin (long) and Bens of Jura (long). - 12th Jan 2003
East District Cross Country Championship
The Carnethy Ladies dominated the East District Cross-Country Champs, held over two laps on a frozen but hilly course on Corstorphine Hill. With Angela, fresh from a hill session in the morning, doing just enough to win, and really excellent runs from Lyn and Jill in finishing 3rd and 6th respectively, Carnethy easily won the team competition.
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Angela Mudge 23:30
3. Lyn Wilson 23:55
6. Jill Tait 25:07
12 Helen Murray 25:44
(60 finishers) The men's race, over 3 laps, saw the return to X-C racing of Robin Morris, although with many of the Carnethy stars running for their other clubs, we failed to complete a team. Garry finished seconds in front of Andy after a race long battle (didn't that happen at Tinto as well - when will he learn respect for his Captain !? ). 35 Lars Ottemoller 33:13
37 Adam Ward 33:19
48 Mark Johnston 33:49
61 Garry MacInnes 34:30
62 Andy Spenceley 34:34
76 Brad Connor 35:15
138 Brian Howie 38:26
139 Duncan Baker 38:28
148 Neil Paton 38:45
177 Paul Caban 40:34
201 Robin Morris 42:40
(232 finishers)
- 6th Jan 2003
Junior/senior relay
Twelve runners and a dog made up three teams at the Flotterstone relays. Snow and icy conditions underfoot were compensated for by the lack of wind which made it quite pleasant for the timekeeper and photographer. results
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Weather looks good for re-enactment of Battle of Roslin
The course markers spent a leisurely afternoon enjoying the spring sun, frosty tops and fantastic views of the Carnethy 5 course.
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- 4th Jan 2003
Greenmantle Dash
The first races of 2003 have already taken place. Several Carnethies ran in the Greenmantle Dash on Thursday 2nd January, along with over 100 others. There was a biting cold wind and the photographer's fingers froze but Kate Jenkins completed the course in a slinky blue number and fashionable green wellies. The footwear was perhaps chosen for the river crossing but she hadn't accounted for the water height and was seen emptying them out on the other side! JBF, fresh from altitude training in Davos, beat Robin Morris to win first O'50 and Ian Nimmo (SHR calendar editor) ran his first ever hill race and enjoyed it. Full results are on the new SHR site
- 4th January 2003
Aonach Mor Gondola Uphill
The Spenceleys were north at New Year as seen by results in the Aonach Mor race, Fort William.
1. S Burns (Lochaber) 23.24
2. J Hepburn (Lochaber/vet)24.52
3. A Spenceley (Carnethy/vet)25.57
Women
1. D Scott(Lochaber) 28.46
2. S Byrne (Lochaber) 31.09
3. A Talbot (Westies) 31.51
4. H Spenceley (Carnethy/vet) 32.02
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