04/05/24 – I really questioned my race life choices today. New race for me tackling the Stuc A Chroin hill race. Over 21km and 1700m elevation. Race started in Strathyre and headed up through forestry tracks and rough ground to Meall Mor overlooking Glen Ample. Descending into the Glen then straight back up with a …
11/05/24 – Another week another hill race. This was so much easier (although still hard) compared to last week. Today it was Ben Lomond hill race and West District Hill Champs. 13km and 967m elevation. It was a hot hot day and not used to this temperature yet. I knew the heat would be the …
08/06/24 – Race report for the NOT 2 Mamores hill race. I should have re writing that this is a stunning hill race across two Munro summits in the Western Mamores; Glen Nevis; Stob Ban and Mullach Nan Coirean. The course was clockwise from Lower Falls, ascending through Coire a’ Mhusgain to Stob Ban, before …
03/02/24 – Race write up… today it was the Devil’s Burdens relay race organised by Fife Athletics Club. It consists of 4 legs in the Lomond hills centring around the base in Falkland Estate. I’ve never done this before but heard so many fab things about the event. Westerlands CC had 12 teams in and …
Bog and Burn is a race series run by Scottish Hill Runners and involved lots of the hill running clubs putting on the races. You need to complete 6 to complete the series but there are loads to choose from. I tried to do some different ones this year. 19/04/23 – Kaim hill race – …
07/10/23 – Not quite the race it was supposed to be as the weather warnings rolled in and the rain came flooding everything. Unfortunately the EpicTrails crew were supposed to be taking part in the Dunoon Ultra but landslides cancelled that. I was signed up for the Glen Clova duathlon so fingers crossed. Came up …
11/11/23 – Dava Way 50km (it was actually 51km) ultra. New race for me and only signed up a couple of weeks ago after being talked into it by two of the crew. The race is a point to point from Grantown-on-Spey to Forres. As soon as we all finished work on Friday we headed …
04/11/23 – @auchterarderrunningfestival you really were spicy today. It was an EpicTrails crew adventure for the Chilli 10km trail race. Bit of a laugh getting there when the sat nav couldn’t understand our accents. It thought Auchterarder was Octonauts, October, Ok to order. Got there and it was torrential rain, just what the forecast didn’t …
12/08/2023 – Oh what a day crewing on the Devil O’the Highlands ultra. I’ve run this twice and decided this year to volunteer instead. Came up the night before and stayed at the West Highland Way Sleeper bunkhouse in Bridge of Orchy ScotRail Station. So cool actually sleeping in the station. 5am start! Aim was …
20/08/23 – We are the Glasgow Triathlon Club Nifty Vixens of Aberfeldy Multi-Sport Festival Middle Distance Triathlon relay team today. With Mary swimming, Vicky cycling and me running we all had the elements we liked. No chance I was swimming! The 1.9km swim started at 0645 at Loch Tay and Mary did a fab job. …