Early failure in 2016 calender use, and not realising the National XC was a week later this year than normal, meant we had double booked ourselves with races this weekend. National XC or a 21k trail race in Glentress…? New ventures proved to be too tempting and we went for the new Glentress Trail races organised by High Terrain Events. This was a great low key event with a choice of 10km, 21km or 42km, on single track trails. Andy and I both did the 21km which gave a good continuous loop with 750m climb. We managed a double win with Andy winning in 1:29 and myself in 1:43. Other carnethies spotted were Kate Darlow who also ran the 21km and Tim and the kids provided great support to everyone. Provisional results can be found here: www.highterrainevents.co.uk/#!glentress-trail-race/cho2
Many thanks to the organisers and the marshals.
Helen Bonsor& Andy Fallas