While the juniors
were excelling at Falkirk for the National Cross Country there were four separate
trail races at Glentress over the weekend with Moorfoots featuring in all
races.
There was the
perfect start
to the weekends racing on Friday with Mike McGovern registering the overall win
at Glentress night 10k (and 1st vet). We’ll also claim the first
women with Rosie Watson
winning too (Rosie trained with the Moorfoots for the 4 months until
Christmas as was on placemtn in Peebles although is now back in
Cumbria).
Alan Elder was 2nd Vet 50 and
newcomer to Innerleithen and Tuesday night trainer David Gaffney from Carnethy
was 5th overall so great results all round. Results here
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| Rosie & Mike - 1st Woman and 1st Man in Glentress Night 10k |
Ruth McKean continued the streak on Saturday by not only
winning the Women’s Vet category and winning the Women’s category outright, and
secured second place overall 10k in 45:43, only 90 seconds off the win. All
this achieved on only two sessions a week – an outstanding performance. Also running was Iain Roberts finishing in 15th place in 51:54
in his ‘comeback’ race it's been 7 years since Iain pinned a number on acquitting
himself admirably.
In the half marathon where the runners were exposed to long
muddy and sodden sections of un-made ‘natural trail’ at the top of the forest,
as well as 750m of climb.
The Moorfoots acquitted themselves well with Pete Hall was 5th
Vet 50, (02:09:02); Alex
Nisbet, 11th Senior Female, (2:15:26); Fiona Williams, 7th F40 (2:17:45 –
and her first race for 2 ½ years after struggling for a long period with post
viral fatigue); Lucy Husband 15th
F40 (2:42:02).
In the biggy, which consisted of two full laps of the half
marathon course, Andrew Dancer running for the Moorfoots for the first time since
moving to Peebles last had a brilliant and well judged run, and made it on to
the podium to finish in 3rd place. He looked remarkably relaxed and
fresh when I saw him at the end of lap 1, but he was a long way off the podium
at this point. His ultra running stamina obviously came to the fore and I’m
guessing Andrew must have overtaken about 10 runners to record a negative split
second lap and get on the podium in a time of 3:49:33. Who knows but if it had
been three laps he probably would have come first!
Results for all three Saturday races here: https://www.highterrainevents.co.uk/glentress-trail-race
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| Ruth |
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| Iain |
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| Pete |
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| Alex |
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| Fi |
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| Fi sprinting |
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| Andrew Dancer taking it easy apparently! |
Loads of photos here: http://www.granddayoutphotography.co.uk/
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