Nice course shame about the weather! Starting from the Corby Linn car park at Selkirk it swings around to below the 3 Brethren before heading to Foulshiels Hill and back in 6.14 miles and some 1100ft.
The race is not after all named entirely about the effects of the first hill but more about Valentine’s day, with suitably themed prizes. The first hill was being spoken of in reverent terms but it turned out to be quite benign. Beating across the moor into the teeth of a gale and being battered up Foulshiels was rather more testing, and we all feel proper virtuous now.
The race is very informal and self timed, signing in back off the hill with our times onto increasingly soggy and disintegrating paper. Helen managed to leave her running shoes at home but race organiser Sheila just zoomed off and borrowed a pair. I suspect she actually knows every single person in Selkirk.
Walkers set off at 12 and runners at 1, all arriving back for nice soup and snacks at the cricket club, and rather better attended than the weather might have suggested. Proceeds to children’s cancer fund. https://www.facebook.com/SelkirkFundRunners/
Digby