Mogwai

Max and Colin went to see Mogwai at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. RM Hubbert warmed up with a nice set and cheery chat. He was joined on stage for the last song by Aidan Moffat.

Mogwai then played a mix of old and new at high volume. Great venue and good concert.

EUOC Big Weekend

3 Orienteering events over the weekend. Friday night was night orienteering round the King Buildings university campus. Pretty decent effort with generally good navigation.

Saturday was the city race in pouring rain. Took about an hour round the MV course finishing 30 of 41.

On Sunday with the forecast for 4 degrees temperature, strong winds and heavy rain I headed out in my waterproofs and with lots of food in my bag. Conditions started bad but improved later on. Finished in a dreadful time of around 1 hr 55 minutes and feeling very tired.

That's 9 races completed in January !

War Horse

Went to the Festival Theatre to see War Horse as Cherry's birthday treat. Very good indeed - especially the horses ! The pleasure was slightly reduced by some chattering neighbours in the seats behind us.

Feel the Burns

A trip down to Selkirk for a fabulous race in the Scottish Borders hills. 21 km with 800 m of ascent the course took in several summits with a highest point of 524 m. Some nice long trails near the peaks and some lovely long downhill stretches.

I was feeling pretty tired at the 2 hour point but seemed to cope better than those around me with the final steep ascent to Foulshiels Hill. Managed a wee sprint at the end to pick up two places and complete in a reasonable 2 hrs 30 mins and 160% of the winning time.

Orienteering at Greenhead Moss

A new area near Wishaw. Very boggy and fairly rough area. Did the long brown course and was out running for 1 hr 47 minutes. Very near the slowest runner but good fun once I got into it. 1 big mistake with all the other controls fairly accurate.

Dropped Max back to Uni afterwards.

Great Winter Run

5k Race round Holyrood Park on a cold Saturday morning. Nice, well organised race. Came in 275th of around 1900 runners.

Night O at Mary Erskine

A quick 30 minute run round the short course. Not too much time in the forest so didn't get too lost !

Greenmantle Dash 2014

Another active start to the year with a trip down to Broughton for a short sharp dash up Trahenna. The weather was nice at the start but by the time of the ascent the freezing rain was coming down making it very cold. Lots of mud and water on this one. My worst ever time at this race :(

Portobello Promathon 2014

I started the new year with the annual 4 mile race along the Portobello promenade. This was the first year at a new earlier time of 10.30. The weather was kind for the big crowd. My time was fairly slow at 30 mins and 5 secs.