A belated post – apologies for the
lateness. There club Christmas feed and awards night was held on Tuesday 7th
December in the Crown Hotel in Peebles and was well attended by 24 members. It
was great to get together after so long, and before the new Omicron variant and
restrictions came along. Also it was really good to see so many new members
too.
One of the parts evening included
awards – some light hearted, but mainly giving deserved recognition to the considerable
achievements over the past two years – there were no dinner and awards in 2020
due to Covid restrictions, and due to the number of cancellations.
Award shortlist
Thrills and spills
claret award – Alan Elder. Rarely does a race go
by without Alan taking a chunk out of a leg! Honourable mention to Andrew
Dancer and Craig Henrys for their efforts at the Glentress races in 2020 http://moorfootrunners.blogspot.com/2020/02/normal-0-false-false-false-en-gb-x-none.html
Tour guide – Kenny
Davidson. Recognising the effort Kenny has put in leading
and organising Thursday and weekend trail runs. Thanks to Gillian and Dean
Carr.
It'll be alright award
- Pete Hall. To have the conviction (?) that after being out
with serious injury Keswick Mountain festival and Glencoe trail 20km races on
consecutive weekends!
Skins award - Andy Cox. For wearing only a vest on some atrocious day racing Batman in
Northumberland on Halloween https://www.facebook.com/groups/moorfootrunners/permalink/3006790169582932
So good they really
don’t need another award Award – Scout and Jacob Adkins. ‘Our’ Lake District based sibling continue to excel at the highest
level ! where do we start, the icing has to setting course records that had
stop for over 15 years (Jacob); winning the Home International (Scout) and both
winning senior selection to the GB team!
The Helicopter Award –
Tim Warner. Hopefully the first and last time that a member of
the club needs to be airlifted off Cademuir (or any hill!) after a bad tumble
on a club run. Many thanks to all those who assisted that day and took very
sensible actions.
Ross Grieve - No
challenge big enough. For taking on his Backyard
Ultra http://moorfootrunners.blogspot.com/2021/04/ross-grieves-backyard-ultra-summary.html taking on the Dragons Back, Lakes in a Day, Tweed Valley ultra 65km in
the same year
Mike McGovern tribute
award for (lack of) Navigation Prowess award – Danny Lavin, Moffat stag and hind, Abbotsford trail race – going wrong with less
than 200m to go, but managed to correct!
Achieving your goals –
Vickie Morrison and Brian Smith. Both
Vickie and Brian set themselves goals for running marathons. Vickie aiming for
sub 4hr at London and Brian sub 3hr30 at Inverness at the other end of Britain
on the same day. They both achieved their goals which is great after all the effort
and hard work. http://moorfootrunners.blogspot.com/2021/10/marathon-fever-loch-ness-london-and.html
Handicap speed king -
Marty Davidson. For being the fastest
over the 2019-21 handicap series.
Newby - Milan Misak. For winning Blair Castle Trail Weekender 30km, Glentress trail night
run 10km, and the Haylodge parkrun with a buggy!
Hill Runner - Gillian Carr. Winning the bronze F40 at East District Hill Running
Cross Country award –
Carol Moss. For winning gold at the National Masters XC
Champs - W55
Ultra Class Award -
Anna Rutherford. Winning the Tweed
Valley ultra 65km finishing 5th overall. A hard fought 3rd
at the Lakes in a Day after some major navigational deviations! (the SUW record
heroics were before Anna but that was amazing)
The club cup for
Outstanding Performance – Iain Veitch.
Winning the Tunnel Run 20km overall, winning and setting course records on 3
mountain triathlons and smashing the run sections in the Cairngorms, Snowdon
and Scafell Pike. Setting the record time, and going sub 2hrs on the Peebles 3
Peaks challenge http://moorfootrunners.blogspot.com/2021/05/peebles-3-peaks-challenge.html , winning the Lee Pen tribute race and collecting a ridiculous Strava
Crown collection on Cademuir!
Congratulations
everyone! And here is to a good 2022
