08/03/25 – Race write up for the John Muir Way ultra. I hadn’t planned to run this, a week ago I didn’t even have a place but when I realised it was on the 8th of March and not the 9th, I knew I could do it and stuck an entry in. I’d run it …
24/02/25 – Monday fun with Tilly. Today the plan was the Luss horseshoe route. Not done this one before and it was the ideal length so decided to give it a shot. It starts from Luss and can be done clockwise or anticlockwise. From Luss itself the start is only a few hundred meters over …
29/03/25 – With only 8 weeks to go until Cape Wrath ultra I needed to get a long run with similar (ish) terrain. Luckily, I have the Kilpatrick hills on my doorstep and not much time to go further adventuring so route was set. Well, it wasn’t really, I roughly had in my head what …
02/04/25 – Wednesday nights are usually my hill running night with Westerlands but tonight I was on parenting taxi duty. Option was to hang around Springburn swimming pool for 2 hrs, going for a run round the streets for 2 hrs or see if I could get a better trail route done. I know Bishopbriggs …
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16/02/25 – Race write up for the Glentress trail marathon by High Terrain Events. The race that didn’t quite go to plan. I hadn’t trained for this and aim was to use it as a training run for Cape Wrath. As such, I brought the family with me for a break too. The race was …
13/10/24 – I would never recommend today. I’d recommend the Carnethy Pentlands skyline race but maybe not the prep to get to the start line…. Alarm set for 0245 to get my eldest to the airport for 0330 for her flight to swim camp. Decisions to be made to drive back home for a couple …
14/09/24 – The trials and tribulations of Dunoon ultra. With 12 of the EpicTrails crew racing (mix of relay and solo runners) it made for a fantastic trip. The race was supposed to be 48km but not for me…. Being loaded with the cold I didn’t know how it would go, and it definitely wasn’t …
27/07/24 – It’s taken 3 years and 3 ballot attempts to get in but I made it into the Lakeland 50 mile. I hadn’t trained the way I would have liked to so felt under prepared. I knew there was a lot of elevation in the race and that poles were advisable. Poles hurt my …
14/06/24 – Made it to Coimbra for the European Duathlon Championships. Day started off with a 4am alarm before heading through to Glasgow Airport with fellow competitor Robert. Quick check in, breakfast and straight onto the plane for 0630 take off. Well that didn’t happen, as we took our seats there was an announcement that …
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06/07/24 – Number being drawn on left leg means one thing…it’s triathlon time. Today it was the Monikie triathlon. I was taking part in the relay which consisted of each member of the team doing a mini triathlon before the next person could go. 300m swim/5km bike/1.5km run. We called ourselves GTC + ringer with …