Wednesday 21 November 2018

Round up Weekend 17-18.11.2018, Glentress Races, Dunbar XC, Braid Hills XC, Brampton 10 mile


Moorfoor Round up Weekend 17-18.11.2018
Lots of Moorfoots in action this weekend – well done to everyone taking part.

Glentress Trail Races

Half Marathon first up on Saturday. Amy Alcorn had a quality run to finish 8th woman, 1:56:00. The field was certainly stronger field than last year with a more competitive field. Last years winner was 3rd. A great run from Simon for 10th (1:35:53 – last year I came 7th but only clocked 1.39!). Dave Gaffney also had a cracker in his longest race ever and just missed out on the M40 podium with a 4th place in 1:44:22. New Moorfoot Andy Davidon had a quality run to cover the course in 1:53:45 for 59th in what was a huge field of 443 runners. Results: https://www.resultsbase.net/event/4451/results

Night 10km - Mike McGovern had the highest Moorfoot finish of the weekend in 3rd overall 43:59. Craig and Katie Walling matched each other with high finishes both taking 7th places respectively in the male and female fields clocking 45:23 and 52:30. New Tuesday night trainer Vickie Morrison had a good run to finish as 34th woman. Results: https://www.resultsbase.net/event/4451/results?round=10014

On the Sunday there were two distances on offer. New Moorfoot Ross Grieve finished the 65km race in 6:18:26 for a fabulous M50 2nd place and 14th overall. Welcome to the club!
In the 50km there was some exciting races with Andrew Dancer and Scott McDonald running in sight of each other for 80% of the course before Andrew pulled away in the final stretch from Innerleithen to take 4th place overall in 3:55:56 only 23 seconds off the podium! Andrew was also 4th last year (in the 65km) and only decided in the last week to enter! Scott improved his time from last year by 33 minutes and finished 6th overall as well as picking up the M50 prize, in a time of 4:14:16. Ex Moorfoot Benjamin Hindley from Innerleithen, now running for Strathclyde University, had a very good run in his first ultra 9th 4:22:50
Like the half marathon there was a very significant improvement in quality of the field with the top 11 all inside the time of last years 2nd place!

Leg 2 Border XC Series was at Dunbar
There were 134 in the junior field with some very strong performances from the 8 strong Moorfoot contingent :
Place
FName
LName
RaceTime
Age Category
Category placing
12
Cameron
Munro
00:14:14
M14-15
3
22
Fionn
Hollingsbee
00:15:13
M10-11
4
29
Shaun
Pyman
00:15:41
M10-11
6
38
Kainui
Keen
00:16:20
M10-11
8
47
Gregor
Wells
00:16:49
M10-11
14
70
Cameron
Carlyle
00:17:44
M10-11
24
81
Elena
Lee
00:18:29
F10-11
6
85
Ashleigh
Drake
00:18:34
F10-11
7

214 ran in the senior race that included two Moorfoots – with Darin Dougal 23rd, 8th M40 and Lucy Oldham 8th Senior F

Braid Hills Cross Country Race http://haries.eusu.ed.ac.uk/racing/braids/
Jacob Adkin made the trip north from his new Lake District home to do the annual Braid Hills Cross Country which is organised by Edinburgh University, where he has recently graduated from.  
It is always a top quality race and 2018 was no exception with the race being won by the reigning National XC Champion and GB track international Kris Jones with Jacob finish on the podium in third place. Results: http://haries.eusu.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/10k-results-pdf-1.pdf  

Pete Hall was back in Cumbria racing the Brampton to Carlisle 10 mile road race, his first race back after injury https://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2018/brampton18.pdf

Glentress 10km Night Run start

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