Join the women’s runs round Edinburgh and the surrounding countryside. Now weekly! This is a social run and we welcome anyone who is up for running about an hour or so in hilly terrain. Most runs are off-road, away from traffic. Meet on Monday nights 6.50pm ready to run at 7pm. To join the group, please text Marion Bourbouze on 07919381893 to get a link to join the Ladies What’s App group where updates and location of each week’s run are posted. If you don’t have what’s app, just download it here https://www.whatsapp.com/. The group is also used to arrange other runs at weekends or to send an email to all women in the club, you can use ladies@carnethy.com |
Winter Soup & Runs From October to March, we meet at someone’s house and the hostess leads the run. We then come back to hers for a well-earned soup. Anyone can host a run – you just need to come up with an hour or so run from your house (as off-road as possible – hills not necessary but welcome!) and make soup for the runners. Thanks a lot to all the volunteers for this year’s runs. Summer Runs In the lighter evenings, after the clocks move forward, we usually leave the trails of Edinburgh and head for the surrounding countryside, generally in the Pentlands and around (previously including Aberlady beach, Dalkeith country park etc.). No soups provided for these runs although there are talks about bringing some cakes to share! |
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Run Schedule
6.50pm ready to run at 7pm Details on Whatsapp |
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Bill Gauld was for a long time an honorary lady for our Monday sojourns. He celebrated his 81st some time ago. In appreciation of the yummy cake and the camaraderie on Ladies night, he penned this thank you –
To all you girls with smiling eyes,
Who once a fortnight cheer me, I wish that I was half my age, And you were always near me. |
Ladies run reports –
Carnethy Ladies Skyline Relay and Whole Route
On Saturday, the Pentland Hills were alive with Carnethy ladies’ chatter and laughter. It was a joy to behold. Apart from a snow flurry at the beginning and a short, sharp snowstorm near the end, it was a beautiful day with a fresh breeze. Much fun was had by all. In addition to the thrill of running in our beautiful hills, we had the Carnethy/HBT Bucket List to keep us amused.
Having run a similar event during lockdown last year (adhering to all covid restrictions of course) we knew the score and three hours after announcing the plan on our WhatsApp group, I had 45 ladies, a photographer and a Covid Officer all signed up. I duly shared this information with President Mark to keep him in the loop and to suggest some of the boys might like to do something similar… a few hours later he replied that so far he had only booked a photographer… for the top of Black Hill (see Bucket List Challenge for significance of this 😊).
Carnethy ladies are very organised and swiftly paired up, reccied legs and organised timings. We formed eight pairs running in each direction and four pairs and one trio running the whole route the race direction and one pair the opposite direction… 32 in the relay and 13 in the whole route group.
We set off from the bottom carpark at Hillend at ten-minute intervals straight into a lovely snow flurry on Caerketton which dusted the summits and provided us with a stunning view of the route ahead. We had a few small mishaps along the way but didn’t lose any runners nor have any injuries nor mountain rescue situations.
With ladies summiting several Bucket List hills and getting up to all sorts of mischief along the way, we racked up more than 500 points in the Carnethy/HBT Challenge. Well done us. We had four Carnethy support ladies too – Avril Roberts and Hattie Logan with delicious muffins and coffee at the Drovers Road, and Joanne Thin and Dawn Waitt, strategically placed on Black Hill Summit with chocolate and coke and to help us with the challenge there by turning all our discarded inside out clothing back the right way so we could don it quickly and get on our way before frost bite set in. A side note here… apparently our President pursued two of our runners up Black Hill with his camera.
As the whole route runners approached the last couple of ascents, a lovely snowstorm blew up and sped us on our way which was exhilarating. Many whoops of delight were uttered as we ran our last few metres and delighted in our great day out.
Next one planned in the Spring.
Well done one and all!
Nicki Innes
Monday night ladies’ run
Monday evening saw a record turnout for the Ladies’ Run… 19 ladies and 1 man… beating the numbers for the first run in the new year when 18 ladies ran… might have been the after-run Prosecco which attracted the crowds that night. Anyway this Monday was a chilly evening but our president Mark braved the elements in shorts to join us the first half and to share his wisdom. Everyone was pleased and impressed that he joined us but we were clearly too fast for him and he had to peel off before the Braid Hills.
A lovely run with plenty of laughter and chatting followed by soup, bread and brownies chez Nicki (Innes), who hosted the first Ladies’ Run in 1996.
Nicki Innes
Ladies’ run
Seven Carnethy ladies set off from Woodhouselee under the leadership of Moira. A beautiful evening to be out in the Pentlands and in such good company. We ran just over five miles before returning to a wonderful selection of homemade salads, bread, cake and strawberries. Thank you Moira for being such an excellent guide and hostess and for giving us all a fun evening.
Kathy Henly
Ladies’ run
The sun was shining and the seaside was calling so the ladies run headed down the coast to Dirleton for a 7.5 mile beach/trail run. We followed part of the John Muir Ultra course through the trees skirting the posh houses at Archerfield before emerging at Yellowcraigs and into the sunshine. We then turned west on a course bound for Gullane along deserted tracks and coves – the day trippers having headed for home! There are still numerous planks of wood adrift along the coast from the load that fell overboard a few months ago! We then skirted around the edge of Gullane, with a necessary half mile on tarmac, before reentering the woods around Archerfield and so back to Dirleton, just beating the return of the haar!
Dorothy Elliott