Rigg Race

First entry to this race from Balerno. Nice monday evening event with a reasonable sized field of a couple of hundred. Pleasant road course out to the edge of the Pentlands. Pleased with how I ran after the exertions of the day before.

Long O

Headed out to the Pentlands on a scorching morning for the annual Long Orienteering event. With the temperatures high I set off slowly to conserve energy. Did OK until around control 13 when the heat and time out go to me and needed to move to a steady walk for the last hour or so. Good course and made extra challenging by the heat.

Slieve Bearnagh - British Champs Race

Travelled down to Newcastle with Max Snr to take part in the short race in the British Championship series. The weather was nice most of the way round and some great views from the summits. A steep and very rugged race with lots of hard rockly terrain to battle through. Peformance was generally ok but need to push harder than I've been doing. 171% of winning time and very near the back of the field. Nice, well organised event.

Meadows 2 Mile - again

Another Wednesday night race at the Meadows. Hannah came out to support this time and the encourage helped achieve a better time of 13 min 54 seconds. Had to really push hard to get below 14 mins but pleased to have got a somewhat better time.

Stuc a Chroin

A tough race in tough terrain, climbing the summit of Stuc A Chroin at 975 m height.

The race starts easy enough along forest tracks with a steady climb before a climbing a grassy hill and descending to Glen Ample. Then the tough bit starts with a sheer climb to Beinn Each and then rough terrain like that pictured through to the summit of Stuc. Nice weather and great marshalling make this a painful but pleasant race.

Time was slow as expected given lack of form at 4 hrs and around 2 mins. I was around 30 mins faster 2 years ago ! Still, pleased that I was still jogging at the end after 4 hours.

Meadows 2 Mile

Midweek race over 2 miles at the Meadows. Slowest ever run round this distance in spite of feeling reasonably good. Time of 14 min 13 secs.