Old News: October - December 2008
- 21st December 2008
The 2008 Christmas Eskape: A Grand Day Out
It was a windy but warm day for our annual Esk Run with around 30 people taking part and 17 doing the whole thing.
Photos and Report is here.
- 18th December 2008
Club Christmas Pub Run - Wednesday 17th December
23 people turned up for the annual Club Pub Run (though the overall number taking part was an amazing 33!) on what turned out to be a perfect night. Nick's report with plenty more photos is here.
- 15th December 2008
Carnethy Prizegiving and Christmas Party
Christmas is here - a night run on the Pentlands followed by an amazing feast, then awards being handed out and free gifts to all members !
Main prizes went to the Club Champion - Jacqui Higginbottom, who received an engraved flask (or will do, when it gets back from the engraver ! ); the Allermuir Junior Trophy - awarded to Trevor, Owen and Jacob Wilkinson; the Burns Scott Trophy - awarded to Shane Bouchier for organisation of the Pentlands Skyline and his many hours as club secretary and finally the Scald Law Trophy - awarded to Lucy Colquhoun for her win in the 86km (and 4600m ascent) Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix race and a GB vest over 100km (and whose acceptance speech was made by video-link to her training camp in Spain!!?).
Then Treasurer, Gordon Cameron, announced free 25th Anniversary Carnethy-emblazoned gifts, a water bottle (there and now) or shoe bag (coming soon) for all members. Also anyone who completed the club championship gets a free bottle of beer. If you weren't at the party, contact Shane or Gordon to get yours. A huge thanks to Moira and her helpers for putting together a fantastic evening.
- 14th December 2008
Carnethy 1st team at Borders Cross Country - Peebles
This was the third of the series and the last one for 2008 so it was good to see quite a few Carnethy faces at the start line and we were even first team. The first half is a lovely run along the banks of the Tweed to Neidpath Castle and then its up onto the hill with great views to Peebles and surrounding hills - dusted with snow, followed by lots of mud as you descend to the finish. For the first time(ever?) Carnethy managed to field a complete junior team in the Borders Cross Country series in Peebles. Trevor Wilkinson was first Carnethy home with brothers Owen and Jacob further back on the two laps of Hay Lodge Park. Hopefully the Carnethy juniors can build on this team performance. (Juniors of all ages are welcome to join the Carnethy junior sessions on alternate Mondays).
Results are here.
MW
First Carnethy home was Simon Peachey making a rare visit from Aberdeen, making up a winning team were Stewart Whitlie and Bruce Smith, then followed Adam Ward, Graeme Carracher, Michael Wilkinson, Hilary Spenceley (1st Over 50), Robin Sloan, Anne Nimmo (1st Over 55) and Ian Nimmo (1st Over 65).
- 9th December 2008
A Mist(ery) Tour of the Lomonds - Sunday 7th December
Report here of Sunday's journey run in the Lomonds of Fife. Sheet ice over more than half the course, a new
dimension..
- 8th December 2008
Lyn 3rd at East District Cross-Country Champs - Sat 6th December
Lyn Wilson, Jacqui Higginbottom and myself competed in this championships event at Cupar on Saturday. It's not everyone's cuppa tea to run round ploughed fields on a cold but sunny afternoon, but hey it beats being a couch potato. The senior women's course was a rather long 6400m over frosty uneven terrain with a couple of sticky muddy patches which felt like you were running through glue. Lyn came 3rd in a time of 27:01, Jacqui was 26th (30:35); while I came in 85th (37:14). Results
Kate F
- 3rd December 2008
Club Video Night
There was a massive turnout of over 30 members at Kings Buildings, on what was a very icy evening, to hear Lucy Colquhorn talk about her ultra running achievements and watch slides and videos of her races and a video of the Ultra Marathon de Mont Blanc - which was really inspirational stuff ! Lucy even brought along samples of all the food she would eat on a 100km race - including a half eaten banana ! Thanks to William Mykura for putting together the show and to Lucy for her enthusiastic talking.
Eez Nice – Lucy confesses
At a brilliant display of the high alps Lucy confessed that she’d run past a banner the size of a small chalet displaying the motif – Eez Nice! – without seeing it. But we got the gist of it, a hell of a slog, and for anyone doubtful the pain in the legs on that last summit came across well. Brilliant pictures, and thanks Lucy for spending the time with us. Though, when asked about training, Lucy said she’d been training up only for the CCC, 'kinda' avoided mentioning that she’d just won the Highland Fling, the Kintyre Way, you name it. And so when team UK brought in Lucy for a race in Italy at the last moment, no worries, just another wee girly race, and she came home first in the Brit team. Amazing, though when Lucy has as many grey hairs as Marco Olmo, 59 years old, romping home on the Mont Blanc Tour 2007 on the next video, time to look back..
And beforehand, the Wednesday Run. This was just amazing, 45 minutes to run before the video night...
Jeez, not another runner …
… was the cry as we overtook some kids descending from the Braids on a sledge. It was hard to know which was the Blue piste and which was the Black. Some areas of the golf courses were sheets of ice, we tried all our best skiing and skating techniques, but Cali won the medal – though we’re not sure if she was trying to melt the stuff or merely slide down it. But WG was adamant, up and over we go, and the crunchiness of the ice underfoot was just like running over cornflakes, but a bit colder. WG, a veteran of these hills for over 20 years, said he’d seen nothing like it before.
Willie M and Richard L
- 30th November 2008
Borders Cross Country - Galashiels
The second Borders XC was held on St Andrew's Day in magical landscape round Galashiels. The sun shone but temperatures were below freezing and the overnight frost stayed, making the going (thankfully?) 'hard'. The usual suspects were out for Carnethy. Results will be here soon.
- 24th November 2008
Angela scoops SAL award
Another award headed the way of Angela Mudge on Saturday night at the Scottishathletics Annual Award Evening, when she was presented with the Dallas Trust Award, which each year recognises the athlete or official who has made an outstanding contribution to the sport - the SAL equivalent of our Burns Scott Trophy ! This award was given to Angela partly for her coaching and inspirational roles as much as her running results.
- 23rd November 2008
East District League Cross Country - Saturday 22nd November
Jacob Wilkinson, racing in a Carnethy vest for the first time led a handful of Carnethies out on a bitterly cold day in Broxburn. Later in the afternoon Kate Friend and Trevor Wilkinson ran out together in the combined U17 and ladies races. Finally Bruce Smith and Michael Wilkinson ran hard in an effort to keep warm. A good time was had by all, but unfortunately we could only manage 1/3 of a team in each event. Results
Michael Wilkinson
- 23rd November 2008
East Lothian Three Peaks
The event went ahead despite a forecast of some inches of snow. Winners: adding the staggered start corrections from Gifford moved 2nd team prize (by a margin of 18secs on total time) from Pete and Elsie to Shane and Nick, who now acquire the bottle of wine for a romantic dinner for two (if Pete and Elsie didn't have theirs tonight). The summit of Lammer Law was neatly flagged, the markersjust happened to be in the right place for finding the summit from the drove road, but belonged to another event going on at the same time! All thanks to timekeepers Sue, Martyn, Barbel and Janet. Report and Results
Keith Burns
- 21st November 2008
Beecraigs Night Run - Wed 19th Nov
A few guests (and one dog) joined the usual stalwarts for the Beecraigs Run. Head torches were the order of the day as 14 of us headed off into the dark woods, making the most of a brief spell of dry weather between rain and hail storms. From the peaks of the Riccarton Hills, Willie M pointed out the views, which we could only imagine as it was dark and misty. A few runners started to drop out and shortcut back to the car park, but the die-hards pressed on thought the notorious Beecraigs mud in search of the elusive Cockleroy Hill. Eventually we had to admit we were lost in the forest and luckily Michael’s compass came to the rescue. North located, we soon found the upper car park and decided to head for home, Cockleroy to be conquered another day. We’d been out for 1.5 hours and the run finished off with a scramble up the spiders-web Christmas Tree for the adventurous, before being well fed and watered at the Beecraigs Restaurant. A welcome return to an old running venue; just a little less mud would be good.
Willie Mykura
- 18th November 2008
Moorfoots Run
Up till the decade - the 00s - the Carnethy year was ended with the boggy tussocky Moorfoots run followed by the club dinner with ceildh and prize giving. Surely not to be missed. In 1989 I waited till after to depart to the Everest Marathon. I remember the memorable first Moorfoots run which flooded the newly built Savacentre and which only Bill Henderson and myself completed. But now - little interest in either and the prize giving at the Christmas party - everyone does Christmas - and it seems no one is bothered about wasting another valuable two hours of daylight on a Christmas luncheon with colleagues/mungles who have not seen the magic of lunchtime running.
S ix runners ventured on the 2008 Moorfoots run and they were all so exhausted that a not-the-club-early-dinner did not happen. Keith Burns, Brian Howie, Paul Ritchie, John Littlewood, Russell Stout and myself left Gladhouse Reservoir at 09.40. The weather was fine, though the wind in the car park was strong - but not as strong as a few hours earlier as I lay in bed comtemplating the run. I gashed my leg on a low fence taking the scenic route from Turnhouse to Flotterstone a week earlier and had difficuly keeping up. Keith and I took the lower route at the end and missed out the last two hills, Mauldslie Hill and Huntly Cott hill. We then saw the others appearing from the wrong direction off Mauldslie Hill having picked up a new forest road.
The devestation below Mauldslie Hill from a cleared forest was in itself worth observing. John Littlewood offered us a lift over the last 200 metres but we were nearly back.
This run is totally different to other club runs and is a fitting end to the season - see you all at the start next November.
JBF
- 17th November 2008
Borders Cross Country
The Borders XC series got under way on Sunday with the Lauder race. A typical cross country with rivers to cross and mud galore but the sun shone for the duration and brought out a record field of near 200. There are five more races to go - great value for £10! Carnethy was 2nd team (Stewart W, Adam W and Graeme C counting, plus several others including the Nimmos and Michael Wilkinson). Details and results are here
- 16th November 2008
Braids Cross Country
Over three hundred runners took part in the Braids Hills cross country race on Saturday, hosted by Edinburgh University. One lap for the women, two laps for the men. With their youthful looks Michael Wilkinson & Jon Ascroft fitted comfortably in to the predominantly student field, although not as young as the guy who came second. Results
Jon Ascroft
- 12th November 2008
Stuart Ruffell
Carnethy members will be saddened to hear of the sudden death of Stuart Ruffell, who died yesterday suffering from cancer. A long time club member Stuart was well known to most members as the organiser of the Peebles handicap and friends with some club members for over 30 years. Not easily defeated, Stuart had had earlier battles with cancer but kept his positive outlook. Only last weekend he was planning an onslaught on his last Munros.
A friendly face to all, Stuart will be much missed. Our thoughts go out to his wife Irene and sons Mark and Steven.
- 12th November 2008
Hospitals Run
Ten ran the hospitals route, with some new variations thanks to WG. A splendid full moon, the rain held off, and running over silver grass is a delight. Except if you're wearing just shorts, those killer brambles on the Craiglockharts again meting out wonderfully gory damage to hapless legs, luckily this fell marginally short of including Little France in the list of premises visited. Near on 10 miles in 2h 45, and with some undulations. An excellent November run.
- 9th November 2008
Jacqui Higginbottom Wins the 2008 Club Championship
Jacqui ran eight of the club championship races over the year and achieved first in her category (FV40) in all her races except Carnethy 5 (where Helene Whitaker took first). Stewart Whitlie could have drawn with Jacqui if he just completed the Tinto Race!, but neither Jacqui nor Stewart were at Tinto. Jacqui will be presented with an engraved Hip Flask at the Christmas Party on December 15th.
Full Results
- 8th November 2008
Lucy finishes first British Lady at World Cup & European Champs 100km Race
After her late call-up to the GB team, Lucy Colquhoun finished 12th Lady overall, and first British Lady, at the World 100km Championships in Italy on 8th November in a time of 8:09:27. Congratulations on a great performance in her first ever 100km race.
Murdo McEwan
and more .... Adrian Stott, whose shop "Run & Become" sponsored the Tinto race the same day, was one of the team managers in Italy and has sent this report, including some of Lucy's splits and that she is now 3rd or 4th on Scottish all time list.
P.S. She is also interviewed and on the front cover of this month's MyRace magazine
- 8th November 2008
Record field at "Run & Become" Tinto Hill Race
The 25th running of the Tinto Hill Race as an open race saw a record field for the fourth year in a row - 261 starters. Although the weather threatened to be much worse, it stayed relatively dry for the duration of the race. A fresh head-wind for the ascent and slippery conditions underfoot meant that times were much slower than usual. Jethro Lennox dominated the race, finshing strongly ahead of Prasad Prasad and then a cluster of Shettleston team mates. In the ladies race Angela Mudge won for an 8th time finishing 14th overall to pick up the champagne and the celebrated Tinto sausages. To recognise the anniversary, additional cash prizes were awarded to the 25th finisher and to the 25th woman. Many thanks to Run & Become for their support and for the many spot prizes.
Derek Bearhop
Photos
Somehat surprisingly this end of season race has grown to become one of the biggest hill races in Scotland, yet the club still manages to organise it in a low key way, and even had an excellent turnout of 29 members running - well done to the man in charge, Derek Bearhop.
To the race: Prasad Prasad (Clydesdale) took the pace on from the start and gave the Scottish Champion, Jethro Lennox (Shettleston), a run for his money leading to the top, but Jethro managed to get a slight lead on the descent before pulling away on the flatter ground towards the finish. Prasad was a clear 2nd, well in front of Shettleston's new signing, Henry "Eritrean" Blake, who has escaped from the wilds of Inverness, with Oleg Chepelin (Shettleston) 4th, Grant Stewart (City of Edinburgh) 5th & Al Anthony (Ochil) 6th - when was Al last as low as 6th in a race ! As expected from someone who stopped off at Tinto on their way to Kendal in order to receive the 2008 Ladies British Championship Trophy, Angela Mudge easily won the women's race.
Results (including Junior Race Results)
- 5th November 2008
SHR prizegiving - Sat. 1st Nov
A plethora of prizes awaited Carnethy at the SHR prizegiving 'do' on Saturday at Crianlarich. Carnethy took 1st women (Jill Mykura, Jacqui Higginbottom V40), female senior team, male senior team (with Shettleston), male vets team (with Westerlands) and the Long Championship Series (Simon Peachy, Stewart Whitlie M40). Details of Prizewinners
The prizegiving was followed by a sumptuous meal and an energetic ceilidh - with the band including a saxophone player. The following day most of us took to the hills, Jill and I tackled Stob Binnein and Ben More, rewarded by fantastic views from the snow-capped summits.
More photos
Willie Mykura
- 5th November 2008
Fireworks, mud, and fog
Wednesday run; Guy Fawkes night to boot. Seven braved the conditions. Gordon favoured a run up Arthur's Seat to enjoy the Meadowbank fireworks from on high. Off we went, by the back route via Peffermill and Prestonfield House to reach the Innocent Railway. Then a trog up the Soldier's Steps, but by half way up we were in the thick mist. The final run up to the summit was over slithery rocks, not a solid foothold to be found. And, alas, at the summit, no sign of any fireworks, not much sign of anything! Just a thick white wet haze and a few crackles in the distance. Heading down towards Dunsapie I swear the mist was so thick that, on reaching the lake, it took a while to be convinced this was indeed a carpark and not a lake - only once one foot was on the ground did conviction become reality. And so down the far side of Dunsapie, where we promptly got lost, at one stage we found ourselves running uphill again, all this due to an enormous tree blown over in recent gales blocking the usual paths. And the mud! Skiing, slithering, skittering. Some folk claimed to be enjoying themselves! But then - 'Now't so strange as folk'. On the trip back we passed fires on all available grassy areas, including the rugby pitch. Good to get back to the warmth of KB, where it was unusually baltic in the bar
- 4th November 2008
Lucy makes 100km GB team
One runner who will not be at Tinto on Saturday is our ultra distance star, Lucy Colquhorn, who has been selected to run for GB in the IAU World Cup and European championship at Etruschi, Italy, on 8th November. Good luck, Lucy. Article here
- 3rd November 2008
Superb running by Carnethy Women at Lasswade - Sunday 2nd November
Lyn Wilson was first and Jacqui Higginbottom an excellent 4th at the Lasswade Cross-Country races. Lars Ottemoller was also running, but for his second club and finished 8th. Results
- 29th October 2008
Wolf Craig Night Run - Halloween Stag and Hen Run
13 runners and one dog braved the cold to meet at Baddinsgill for the first night run of the season. A double celebration, the nearest wednesday to Halloween and also the last wednesday before Phillipa Headley and Tom Harley set off to South Africa to get married.
We climbed Byrehope Mount then headed west to Wolf Craig, along a tussocky track, to find a few skulls, ghosts and glasses beside a bottle of champagne. As we approached there was a volley of fireworks to add to the party atmosphere. Thanks to three forerunners!
We toasted the soon to be weds before trudging slowly through the waist deep heather towards Muckle Knock where we eventually found the track back to the cars.
We arrived half an hour late at The Allan Ramsay where the warm fire was welcome, as was the food and drink.
Thanks to Nick MacDonald, Allan Hogg and Jonathan Hogg for setting the scene and the fireworks.
Willie Gibson
- 25th October 2008
OMM called off due to the severe weather - Sat 25th afternoon
First the first time in its 40+ year history, the OMM (previously known as the KIMM or Karrimor), which was based at Borrowdale in the Lake District this year, had to be abandoned half way through the first day due to the high winds and torrential rain causing extensive flooding including closing all roads in the area and making it almost impossible to move across the hillsides. Story and some amazing photos on sleepmonsters (and this one photo here gives you some idea !). More details on the OMM website here.
P.S. Saturday evening - This is now headline news on the BBC Web site (but Carnethy got there first !)
Maybe this year's OMM wasn't the best introduction to Mountain Marathons for my friend Claire! As she is London Marathon LV55 champion and holder of numerous other LV titles I was expecting a hard time keeping up. In the end the main problem for both was keeping on our feet. We set out on the Medium Score at 8.30 in reasonable weather, but within the hour the forecast heavy rain and gales appeared. After 3 controls we took the decision not to cross Dalehead at 750m; even at 500m you could barely stand. We backtracked to Honister Pass and ran down the road to finish at Gatesgarth. We were in the tent by the time we heard the event was cancelled and we started back over Honsister to the start (and dry van) at Seathwaite. By now the road was a river and guys were getting blown off their feet. At the top of Honister the much-quoted-in-the-news owner of the slate mine was stopping people going on. In retrospect I think we should have ignored him, but we joined many others being driven back to Gatescarth, where we slept with 400 fellow competitors in the barn. Joanne Anderson and Joan Wilson were also in the barn having completed the C course. (The top of Dalehead was "scary" said Joanne). Next morning I discovered another Carnethy, Sam Hesling, with a large group from Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club. All that was left was the walk up and over Honister yet again to recover the van and head for a fry up in Penrith. The Sleepmonsters reports are pretty accurate; unlike the BBC and the rest of the press!
Ian J. Jackson
- 21st October 2008
Glentress Winter Duathlon Entries open online
Online entries for the Glentress Winter Duathlon series are now open here. The first (medium) race is on 30th November. More info on the Glentress Duathlon website.
- 20th October 2008
British/FRA Relay Champs, Clwydian Hills, North Wales - Sunday 19th October
Two Carnethy teams went down for the weekend to what was a superb, well organised event on very runnable hills. Good conditions apart from a strong wind (as can be seen in the photo of Clayton's club tent, which blew away !).
The men's team was led out by Russell Stout, who then handed over to the experienced (drinking) duo of Adrian Davis and Adam Ward. They sprinted in to give the baton to the outgoing Captain Steven Fallon and map-man Andy Spenceley for the Navigational leg, at the end of which Bellahouston, Shettleston and Carnethy were all wthin a minute of so with Shettleston one place in front of Carnethy, which left anchorman, Bob Waterhouse, the simple task of chasing down Jethro Lennox of Shettleston on the glory leg ! Special mention to Edinburgh Univ who were 1st Scottish club in a very impressive 6th place.
The ladies lead out woman was the ex Captain Kate Friend who coped with the enormous pressure and handed over to the big names of Angela Mudge and Jill Mykura. Third leg was controlled by Helen Whittaker on her last outing for the club along with in form Jacqui Higginbottom and they finished in 2nd place to give the last leg run out to new member Debbie Monteith and who brought the ladies home on 5th place. Results
Ex-Captains Report : "The FRA relay championships this year started from the village of Llangynhafal in the Clwydian Hills, Wales. This was my last race before handing over as Captain to Joanne Thin, and Helene Whitaker's last race as a racing member of Carnethy * look out for her wearing an Ilkley vest next year! Leg 1 was flat and fast with a couple of steep climbs; Angela and Jill then took the dibber on Leg 2 skilfully overtaking many runners to hand over to Helene and Jacqui who had a superb run on the navigation leg before handing over to newcomer Debbie who ran brilliantly so soon after the Pentland Skyline! Well done team! After packing up the tents in the sunshine and blue skies, we then headed north eventually hitting the storm in the Lake District and it didn't stop raining all the way home."
Kate F
- 18th October 2008
Creag Mac Ranaich Conquered
A multi-disciplinary team of Carnethy members made a successful assault on the summit of Creag Mac Ranaich (2654 and 1/2 ft) on Saturday. Full report of the expedition is here.
15th October 2008
Carnethy runners' endurance pays off in Long Classic Series
After the final race in the inaugural SHR Scottish Long Classic series, the Pentlands Skyline, Carnethy members have picked up plenty of awards, notably the overall winner, Simon Peachey, the first Over 40 man, Stewart Whitlie, and the first Over 40 woman, Jacqui Higginbottom (and if she had been just half a minute faster in the Pentlands she would have been first senior woman as well !). Full Results
A total of 50 runners finished the series, which involved finishing at least 4 of the 9 long distance hill races in Scotland and 10 of these 50 were from Carnethy ! These are: Andy Spenceley, Colin Wilson, Jacqui Higginbottom, Joan Wilson, Joanne Anderson (3rd woman), Jon Ascroft, Richard Bush, Simon Peachey, Steven Fallon & Stewart Whitlie. Well done to all.
N.B. Hot of the press you can see what the 2008 Scottish Championship Mugs look like (left and right view) - a real collectors' item that 20 Carnethy members have earned this year (see news item 3rd October, below). The first were given out at the AGM last night.
- 14th October 2008
Brian Waldie's latest contintental race report
We've just heard from our foreign corresponent, Brian Waldie. Starting with his silver medal in the World Masters he's had a succesful autumn in Europe .... report here
- 13th October 2008
East District Cross Country Relays, Prestonpans - Saturday 11th October
Three Carnethy ladies ran in the East District Cross Country relays in Prestonpans on Sat - it was good to get a team out and it turned out to be a beautiful day. Phillipa Headley started on Leg 1 from Meadowmill Sports Centre and kept with the pack as the course weaved in and around the sports grounds and fields, I then took over on Leg 2 enjoying the very brief ups and downs to hand over to Lyn Wilson who effortlessly reigned in some runners to finish in 12th in a team time of 53:24. If you're interested in running XC this winter, all details are on the ScottishAthletics web site, and also look out for the Borders XC events too which are a little more low key.
Kate Friend
- 12th October 2008
Record field for Pentland Skyline
A sunny morning and the incentive of being the last race in Scottish Long Classic Series brought out the numbers as there was a record number of finishers, 167, two more then the previous record set in 2004 ! Runners had to cope with heavy underfoot conditions and a strong head wind for the first half, this meant that at least the wind was behind on the way home when tiredness set in.
After a canny start, Al Anthony (Ochils) had a storming second half to win by 9 mins while second was decided in a sprint finish between Es Tresidder and Stewart Whitlie. Lucy Colquhoun dominated the ladies race as she finished in a very fast 2:47 (only Angela Mudge has gone faster) over 10 mins in front of the second woman, Jill Mykura. Carnethy won both the men's (Stewart, Adrian Davis 5th, Jon Ascroft 11th) and ladies team (Lucy, Jill and Jacqui Higginbottom 5th and 1st Over 40). Results and Prizes. More photos (coming) on SHR's Flickr site.
Colin Donnelly (Lochaber) won the Man or Mouse competition, following up his win at Manor Water with an 8th place in the Pentlands.
- 11th October 2008
Manor Water Hill Race - incorporating Man or Mouse 1st Round
It was a fine sunny but very windy day for the Manor Water Hill Race, though with very heavy underfoot conditions with all the recent rain. A record field turned up for the race - 101 finishers - with the incentive of trying to win the sheep (black-faced) in the raffle at the Sheepdog Trials. Last year Brian Marshall won (the race, not the sheep) from Colin Donnelly, this year Colin Donnelly won from Brian Marshall in 71mins! Colin had a long enough lead at the turnround point on The Scrape to keep in front of Brian. Don Naylor was 3rd and Adam Ward first Carnethy in 4th. Hilary Spenceley, in her first race of the year, found the course and the mud to her liking as she was first Over 50 Woman, while club treasurer, Gordon Cameron, was first Over 50 man.
Results and Photos . Previous results here.
- 9th Ocotber 2008
Steve Macinnes is 11th in the Three Peaks Cyclo-cross
Steve Macinness (Carnethy Mull Section) took on the might of the cycle teams to finish in 11th position in the 3 Peaks Cyclo-cross on 29th September. How about a report Stevie!
Results
- 8th October 2008
Simon takes Aberdeenshire Hill Series Title
Simon Peachey is taking full advantage of his recent move to Aberdeen as he won the Bennachie Hill Race on Sunday to win the overall Aberdeenshire Hill Series which is based on this, Morven and Cairn William (and he had a 2nd and 1st in these two resp.) Another north-east club member, Bill Henderson, was the only other Carnethy at Bennachie. Resullts
- 6th October 2008
Carnethy runners lead Scottish Long Classic Series with Pentlands Skyline to go
With just one race left, the Pentland Skyline on Sunday 12th October, Simon Peachey and Jacqui Higginbottom are currently leading in the inaugural Scottish Long Classic Series. Stewart Whitlie is still in with a shout if he wins the last race. Joanne Anderson is second in the ladies, so Carnethy currently has a 1-2 in both men and women. Dawn Scott (Lochaber) or Kate Jenkins (Unattached) could still win the women’s title. Latest stats here and results here.
Anyone who completes 4 long races will count in the Series and the Pentlands is your last chance.
- 6th October 2008
Hardmoors 110 Race 26-28 September 2008
Instead of joining the scramble (race?) for a place in this year's Tour du Mont Blanc race, Murdo McEwan signed up for the inaugural Hardmoors 110 race. Based in North Yorkshire it follows much of the Cleveland Way long distance trail:- 55 miles across the Moors to reach the sea at Saltburn, then meandering along the coast for another 55 miles to finish at Filey. On a "How hard was it?" scale it was certainly comparable in many ways to TMB ~ less up 'n down, but a bit further distance. The main difference was in the numbers taking part: 26 as against c 2,300. Murdo moved up to 3rd place shortly before the half way point, from then on ploughing a somewhat lonely furrow insofar as seeing any other runners was concerned, but enjoying fabulous scenery throughout the brilliant weather day and on into the early darkness of the second night. A very commendable 18 out of the 26 starters completed the full distance within the challenging 36 hours cut-off time limit of 05:00hrs on Sunday morning. Rob Apple, one of the three Americans taking part (this being his 530th ultra!) described Hardmoors 110 as "Brutal", but smiled as he said so. Could it have the potential to evolve into one of the world's classic ultra distance events? Time will tell..........
Martin Dietrich 24:20 1st
Ian Leach 26:51 2nd
Murdo McEwan 27:35 3rd (& 1st "Senior")
Shirley Colquhoun 30:36 4th (& 1st Lady)
Murdo McEwan
- 5th October 2008
Ian Hodgson Mountain Relay, Patterdale, Lake District - Sunday 5th October
A Carnethy team turned up on the Saturday for this prestigious relay only to find it cancelled. Extremely heavy rain with gales force winds on Saturday flooded the roads and parking fields (and destroyed and blew away the Wilson's tent on the Saturday afternoon !). With nowhere to put the cars the organisers had no option but to cancel even though the day the race would have been held, Sunday, turned out to be a superb sunny (but cold) day. So the team went for a run round several of the Hodgson legs instead.
- 3rd October 2008
Carnethy success in Scottish Championship !
The 2008 Scottish Championship is now over with the last race, the Two Breweries, having been run last weekend and it finished with no less than five titles for Carnethy ! Congratulations to the new Scottish Champions. These are Jill Mykura, the 2008 Senior Women's Scottish Champion, Jacqui Higginbottom, the 2008 Women's Over 40 Scottish Champion, and the Ladies Senior Team; the Men's Senior Team (sharing the title with Shettleston) and the Men's Over 40 Team (sharing the title with Westerlands). Plus, Stewart Whitlie was second in the Men's Over 40 and Simon Peachey 3rd in the Senior Men's championships.
Final championship listings are here.
Also, the following 20 Carnethy members have earned one of the much admired and sought after SHR mugs by completing the Scottish Championship series: Andy Spenceley, Bill Henderson, Bruce Smith, Colin Wilson, Derek Bearhop, Derek Paton, Gordon Cameron, Gregor Heron ,Jacqui Higginbottom, Jill Mykura, Joan Wilson, Joanne Anderson, Jon Ascroft, Kate Friend, Michael O'Connor, Peter Walker, Simon Peachey, Steven Fallon, Stewart Whitlie & William Mykura - so the club has 20% of the mugs awarded this year !
- 1st October 2008
Ullapool Sportif - 130 miles by bike - Saturday 27th September
Three Carnethy members, Angela Mudge, Andrew Patience and Andy Spenceley, took part in the Ullapool Sportif a 130 mile (or 209km) cycle race (with, according to the organisers, 3753m of climb - that's over 12,000ft !). Starting at first light at 7.30am at Ullapool the route went north to Kylesku, Scourie and Laxford Bridge, then turned east down Loch Shin to Lairg, before heading west to Ledmore Junction and 17 miles back to Ullapool. Held in strong westerly winds and rain it was quite a challenge and vital to get into groups. Passing 100 miles in about 5hrs 30mins, the three finished just a minute apart around 7hrs 24mins in 12th, 13th and 14th places. Event Info and Results.
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