News Jan-March 2001

27th March 2001
ALLOA HALF MARATHON
Kate Jenkins was 3rd lady at the Alloa half marathon. Kirsty Leishman, Steve Rawson also ran. John Coyle and Serena Miccalizzi were also in the race but were not mentioned in the results! John took 1:13:28 and Sere did 1:49:57.
26th March 2001
GORDON IS FIRST CARNETHY MEMBER AT 'CHAPELGILL'

Gordon Cameron was 8th and 2nd Vet in Saturday's Chapelgill (on Calton Hill) Race.
Click HERE for a report
19th March 2001
NEW MEMBER WINS HALF MARATHON!
(by Mark Johnston)
Tracey Brindley (our newest member - sent the cheque off on saturday morning!) won the Inverness half marathon in 1.21 by 6 minutes.
Several Carnethy men ran for City of Edinburgh!!! with me 9th in 1.14, Adam Ward 11th in 1.15 and Andy Laycock running 1.18. Garry Macinnes loyally wore his yellow carnethy vest finishing in 1.17, and Carnethy made up two third of the winning City of Edinburgh mens team with me Adam and Martin Ferguson. An nice race in beautiful sunshine, with excellent prizes and over 900 runners, and great views on the journey home!
18th March 2001
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Stewart Whitlie and Moira Stewart are proud to announce the birth of Carnethy Hill Racing Club. The Scottish Athletics Federation have accepted the affiliation of the new Club. Now we are able to accept members to the new club. Membership information is available on the Racing Club Page.
1st March 2001
THE PENTLANDS ARE NOW SHUT
Due to the foot and mouth problem the Pentland Hills are now closed.
This is a difficult time for farmers and by keeping away from farms and footpaths we can hopefully shorten the duration of the problem.
Keep your running confined to the inner hills of Edinburgh.
Arthur's Seat Here I come!
17th February 2001
CARNETHY 5 AND SCALD LAW JUNIOR RESULTS ARE ONLINE NOW.
13th February 2001
TOUGH GUY ? CARNETHY MAN WINS!
Geraint Florida-James tells his tale.
Tough Guy 2001 took place on its usual last Sunday of January. It was the coldest day of the 5 TGs that I have completed, with about an inch of ice on the water obstacles. 6000 competitors lined up for the event which incorporates a 6 mile cross-country run (with various hazards thrown in), and then 2 miles of obstacles in "The Killing Fields". The five full submersions in the icy water made this a pretty gruelling day and left me feeling disorientated for the final obstacles. I entered The Killing Fields with the guy who eventually finished 3rd, but left him on the first obstacle and I went on to win by over 2 minutes. I know that there has been some interest expressed in competing next year, so for those people take a look at the web page below, where there is an entry form (I also have forms). Enter early, i.e. now, so as you can get as far up the field as possible- and it's cheaper!
8th February 2001
NIGEL'S CARNETHY NIGHT RUN
It was a good night run, lovely evening and 16 people there.
Robin and Russell were late so I stayed back with them. When we headed up the hill we met Gordon , he had mislaid Dice (his dog). We were held up looking for him but still dogless headed to catch up on the others. We almost caught up and Dice was with them , he came to visit us, then disappeared. Gordon hung about and we ran on. We almost caught up on the front group at the col between Carnethy and Turnhouse so Robin and Russ carried on and I waited for Gordon and Dice. As it turned out, the dog had taken a contour line and caught up with the leading pack!
Gordon came up Carnethy still thinking of what to say to Debbie about the lost dog, but at the top decided to go back to the col and wait for us and Dice there. I headed down to Charlie's Loup where I caught up on the rest and Dice. As it turned out it was more a case of Dice losing Gordon.
We headed back and picked up Gordon and ran back to Flotty where a good meal was had.
I think we should give Dice a "Man Whistle".
Good fun, thanks Nigel.
Willie Gibson
5th February 2001
CARNETHY LADIES ARE FIRST AGAIN
The Carnethy ladies finished first women's team in The Devil's Burden relays last Saturday. They didn't go the wrong way (unlike the men).
MENS CAPTAIN'S REPORT
As per last year, we again managed to get 3 mens teams out for the event which was a great effort. The running conditions were fine, with a good temperature and little wind although the visibility was pretty poor due to the low mist!
In terms of our "A" team, Adam Ward and Stewart Whitlie ran the first leg and soon found themselves in the lead going up the first hill. They were followed past the trig point by the Fife team with the Lothian team, at this point, well behind in the mist in third. Unfortunately, both the Carnethy and the Fife teams then took a slight detour off to the left. As the "local" Fife team continued to follow us, we assumed we were going in the right direction! By the time we had realised our mistake and got back on course we had dropped back to 11th as we passed over to Geriant Florida-James. Geriant, fresh from his victory in the "Tough Guy" event in England the week before, then put in an excellent performance to get the team back into 4th place. This was despite having ran past the checkpoint and then having to run back up the hill to check his card! Garry MacInnes and Brad Connor then did an excellent job of navigating there way over leg 3 to pass over to Mark Johnston, still in 4th place but only 10 secs behind the Cosmics team. Mark also had an excellent run, managing to briefly get ahead of Keith (top roadie from Aberdeen) on the first road section although he was subsequently overtaken by Keith near the finish. We ended up in 4th place, a couple of seconds behind the Cosmics team and about 8 mins behind the Fife and Lothian teams who finished first and second. Adam and Stewart are definitely due the other team members a few beers!
The Vets team of Murdo McEwan & Eddie Harvey (leg 1), Bill Cross (leg 2), Andy Spenceley and Brian Waldie(leg 3) and Willie Mykura (leg 4) had a good run finishing in 13th (?) place.
Our other male team also had a good run, with Crawford Oliphant & Colin Pritchard (leg 1), Bill Gauld (leg 2), Russell Stout & Andy Patience (leg 3) and Andy Laycock (leg 4) finishing in 11th (?) place.
Another top performance from the girlies who managed to get 2 teams out this year with the "A" team winning for the umpteenth year in a row!
1st February 2001
SOTTISH HILL RUNNERS WEB PAGE
The Scottish Hill Runners web page is now up and running.
www.hillrunning.co.uk
It is also linked from our Related Sites page.
29th January 2001
MULL WEEKEND
The Club weekend in Mull was a great success, with 23 members heading over the water to visit John and Serena in Tobermory - see report
25th January 2001
BURNS NIGHT

The Club Burn's night was well attended. 60 people gathered at Chez Nimmo for the annual tribute to our National Bard.
Thanks to
Ross Anderson for Drumming in the Haggis
Nick Macdonald for Addressing the Haggis
Gordon Cameron for the Selkirk Grace
Murdo McEwan for the Immortal Memory
Steve Rawson for toasting the Lassies
Maggie Creber for the reply
All the others for their musical contributions and recitations.
and Hilary Spenceley and the Nimmo Family for making it all happen.
24th January 2001
WATCH OUT THERE ARE THIEVES ABOUT
Last weekend while on a Carnethy 5 recce trip three members had thier cars broken into. The cars were parked in the Lay-by in front of Carnethy Hill. Only specific things were taken (one credit card from a wallet), SO BEWARE!
15th January 2001
ANGELA IS IN THE NEWS AGAIN!
Angela has been nominated for a World Sports 2000 Award.
The full article can be found in THE HERALD
11th January 2001
KB HILL RACE
Colin Pritchard won todays KB Hill handicap in a personal best time of 35:07.
Lyn Wilson was first woman in a new record time of 33:24 beating Ann Curtis's time of 33:40 set in march 1985.
13 runners took part full results are on the Races/KB Page
10th January 2001
NIGHT RUN : BEECRAIGS (Willie Gibson)
14 runners turned up for the first Beecraigs night run. It was a lovely night with the odd cloud covering a beautiful full moon. We ran through the woods and round the deer farm and around Beecraigs Loch before heading over Riccarton Hill and admiring the views to Goat Fell.
We then headed off to Cockleroy Hill, fighting through bog and fallen trees helped and hindered alternately by Camilla's searchlight. The couple in lone car parked in a secluded spot will be going somewhere else next time!
The views from Cockleroy were also excellent and after 103 minutes and 21 seconds (Camilla had her watch on too!) we returned to the cars and headed for the restaurant for a lovely meal and a couple of pints.
Well done Willie Mykura for a wonderful run.

7th January 2001
THE JUNIOR/ ADULT TEAM RACE
This years race was won by Ross Anderson, Leo Rampen, Win Rampen and Nick Macdonald. Sarah Macdonald got a stitch and as a stitch in time saves nine, nine minutes were deducted from her time.
Results

	1st Team	Time	2nd Team		3rd Team
Junior	Ross Anderson	20:33	Claire Rampen	22:50	Julia Rampen	22:10
Junior	Leo Rampen	20:47	Rafaela Taylor	23:12	Sarah Macdonald	28:38-9mins 19:38
Short	Win Rampen	29:04	Bill Gauld	28:49	Joanne Thin Jamie Taylor	34:50 33:39
Long	Nick Macdonald	34:49	Colin Pritchard	33:04	Keith Burns	37:55
		104:33		107:55		113:22

5th January 2001
THE FIRST CALENDAR AMMENDMENT
The Mull weekend has been changed to avoid a clash with the Wanlockhead navigation weekend.
It is now 27/28 January and NOT 20/21 January.
4th January 2001
NIGHT RUN
The next Night run is on Wednesday 10th January
2nd January 2001
GREENMANTLE DASH
We were still registering at 12:05, but the race waited for various late comers and the large handful of kids to get organised. Dick warned us that the river was especially deep and we should keep to his markings and we doubted whether this would be the safest route! The bog was as wet as ever and the climb steeper than last year...maybe? I didn't think I'd have enough today, but as poor Jenny was just recovered from pneumonia and Karen K had been living it up I flew past on the descent (always bearing in mind Willies ankle) to win, realising all the track sessions with Gala Harriers had paid off!
Brian Waldie, Andy Laycock and Karen Kealey also braved Trahenna Mountain. Dick Wall lifted every prize winner off the floor to loud claps, except me- I lifted him! The only race where nearly everyone is guaranteed a prize! .
Kate Jenkins
Additional report from Robin Morris
Kate retained her title in the Greenmantle Dash, Broughton in 16th place. Kate with Ian Duff 10th and Andy Laycock 15th won the team title. Karen Kealey was third lady and Brian Waldie 27th first over 50 and 60, David Hunt 33rd, Robin Sloan 41st, Mike Pearson 53rd, Janice Smith 65th, Ken Haddow (on his way back to Santiago) 77th, Richard Robertson 83rd, Schierlohs 86/87 and Jack Gillies 97th. from 116 finishers.
1st January 2001
NEW YEARS DAY TRIATHALON (Willie Gibson)
It had been a sober Hogmanay (thankfully), and I headed off for the Commie Pool at 11am. The weather was far better than it had looked on sunday. It was 1:55 before I started the swim and although that went well I got severely beaten in the getting dressed quick race.
Heading out for the bike I couldn't do up my helmet with my gloves on so that cost me more time. The cycle was interesting as I thought I was going fast but people still screamed past me.
Then came the run, my legs were feeling fine till I tried to run. They were not listening to me as I jellied my way down towards Holyrood. By the climb they had started working a little better.
It was a hard race and I finished in 1:14:31 (51st), Russell Stout was 1:20:24 (85th).
Full results can be found on Edinburgh Triathletes web page HERE
1st January 2001
PORTOBELLO PROMATHON (Kate Jenkins)
Despite the relatively balmy day, ice still lingered on the Promathon, so the race began on the beach for 3/4 mile. As I was driving on Hogmanay I felt quite fresh and decided to go for it and was over keen, soon to be passed by many more canny folk. However I battled on and had a good win to start the year!
Karen Dobbie was 2nd Lady.
Dave Hunt, Willie Mykura and Martin Flynn also had good runs.
Full results can be found on Peter Jackson's Web Site HERE