05/04/25 – A day of two races. Neither really planned. Back in Aberdeen for the Scottish National Age Group swimming champs with the eldest. I reached out to Stuart at Trek Climb Fitness (we met at Lairig Ghru race and always said next time I was in Aberdeen I’d say hi) to see if he […]
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20/04/25 – What a run today! I’m over in Millport so suggested the EpicCrew come and do a run from Largs. I spend a lot of time in Millport but never get a chance to try out the hills across the water in Largs so this was a chance. I’d borrowed a route from Jo
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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
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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
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14/10/23 – Autumn is the best time of year. Can’t beat a chilly but sunny morning with crunchy leaves on the ground. Parking at Chatelherault park, Tilly and I covered 12km checking out all the trails around Chatelherault and even bumped into an old colleague. Great start to the weekend! The trails are all well
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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
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I’ve done this route twice in the last few weeks and both were totally different days…. 17/12/23 – Let’s go for a run up the Campsies on Sunday morning was the suggestion from one of the crew. Maybe let’s not when it’s raining and wind is so strong small little me struggles to stay upright.
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26/10/23 – It was a Halloween spooktacular on tour guided 11km run tonight. Starting at Blairskaith Linn we took the trails up to Lennox forest before descending the slippery mountain bike tracks to Celtic training ground. Next over to Lennox Castle which was very creepy at night. Then along to Lovers Leap for what looked
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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
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31/08/23 – Fab on tour guided run tonight with lots of new faces. Starting at Twechar Primary School we did a figure of 8 loop. First was a lovely 1km uphill although I was slightly confused as the trees that were previously there had been felled and I couldn’t see the ‘wish you were here’
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