Weekend race roundup 18/19 August - Ochil 2000s, Abbotsford Trail Race, Kinloch Rannoch Games Hill Race

Saturday’s Ochil 2000s Hill Race was selected as the Scottish Athletics one-off championship race, as well as counter for the Scottish Hill Runners series. It’s also a biggy at 33km, with 1770m of climb, and part of the Long Classics series too so it won’t surprise you to learn Alan Elder was in action. However the stand out Moorfoot performance came from Scout Adkin who completed the route in 3:47:04 not far from the podium, as 6^th woman in a highly competitive race given it’s Championship status.  Alan finished in 4:42:44 as 25^th M50 so great performances all round in a navigationally challenging day on the hills. Full results here: http://www.scottishhillracing.co.uk/RaceResults.aspx?RaceID=RA-0203&RaceYear=2018

 

A rather challenging route!

Dave Gaffney and Andy Cox continue to enjoy a season of short sharp hill races taking part in the Kinloch Rannoch Highland Games on Saturday, before some extra munro bagging that evening and the next day. The race route is up to the top of Craig Varr and back again which is 2.3 miles and 900 feet ascent. Andy described the race as:

Brian Marshall pipped the young boy from Fife, closely followed by Colin Donnelly, who caught me on the road into the park, we all came in within 20 secs of each other, 4th and £15 which paid for the fish suppers.....

It was a ‘anyway you want’ to the top and back, the 'older' boys who have done it several times, definitely knew the wee shorts cuts.

 

 

Abbotsford Trail Race on Sunday was held in a pretty special setting of Abbotsford House by Melrose. There were two courses which would not have been out of place in the Borders XC series – a junior race of 2 miles and senior race covering 5 miles. The terrain was mainly grass fields, and riverside path but some sections of made up purpose built gravel paths. There were two Moorfoots in each race.

First up in junior race was Shaun Pyman, 6^th overall and 2^nd MU13, followed by Esme Minto 2^nd WU15 and 15^th overall.

94 seniors ran and it was dominated by Gala Harriers, the organising club. It was won by Graeme Murdoch, in 29:24. First Moorfoot home was Darin Dougal in 9^th (5^th M40) in 32:53 and Colin Williams 12^th (6^th M40) a minute and a second behind. Also racing was Brenda Dougal for the Galavanters finishing 12th F40.

Full results http://galaharriers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Gala-Harriers-Abbotsford-Trail-Race-Junior-Results-2018.pdf

http://galaharriers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Gala-Harriers-Abbotsford-House-Trail-Race-Senior-Results-2018.pdf

A good set of photos of the senior race can be found here: https://www.borderphotography.com/p1056700036

Unfortunately there do not appear to be any photos from the junior race.