Tuesday 3 July 2018

Weekend Round up - Alpine Jacob, Cumbrian Coxy, Scottish Sam, Coastal Colin, Alan in the Arrochars

 

Lots of Moorfoot action this weekend but it has to start with:

Jacob Adkin wins Mt Blanc Vertical Kilometre

Salomon sponsored Jacob Adkin, who has been spending the summer training in Chamonix and covering some major altitude going by his Strava feed tasted success at the Mont Blanc Marathon Festival. Jacob won the gruelling Vertical Kilometre in 34:46 – destroying the field and beating the second-placed runner by over 3 minutes!

To give you an indication of how fast Jacob went Gavin Bryson from Lauder recently finished third at the East District hill champs which were incorporated with the Eildon Hill Race in Melrose last weekend. Gavin was also out racing the Vertical Kilometre and finished 9.5 minutes behind Jacob! Results: http://www.montblancmarathon.net/images/mbmarathon/doc_pdf/2018/classement_KMV_2018.pdf

You know you are going well when Kilian Journet 'likes' your run

Back in Britain the weather was meaning it was hot work ~

Andy Cox continued with his goal of completing enough races in the British Open Fell Runners Association (BOFRA) series to get a ranking putting in a fine run to finish 5th Kirkby Gala Fell Race in Southern Cumbria http://www.bofra.org.uk/assets/racepages/kirkby/kirkby.php

Sam MacNeil took part in the Scottish Summer 10k in Edinburgh finishing a very creditable 7th
http://scottishrunningguide.com/assets/2018/the-great-scottish-summer-run-10k/results/10kgreatscottishsummerrun-sunday-01july2018-overallresults.pdf

Colin Williams raced at the spectacularly beautiful Northumberland Coastal Marathon starting in Alnmouth and along trails and beaches heading up past Dunstanburgh Castle to Beadnell Bay and back. Organised by the North East Marathon Club where the emphasis is on completing rather than competing Colin finished 3rd in 3:32 and was rather dried out by the end! http://www.northeastmarathonclub.co.uk/coastal.php

Alan Elder was at the formidable Arrochar Alps Hill Race (16.75 miles, 7,600 feet of climb!) and valiantly stopped to assist in an emergency to a walker on final descent. Respect to Alan.

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