Wednesday, 22 September 2021

Weekend round up 18-19 Aug 2021 - Scottish Half, Eildons, Three Mealls

As well as Dean and Gillian's Loch Tay successes the was more Moorfoot action this weekend

Brian Smith raced in the Scottish half on Sunday. He said:
Great to see the return of mass participation events. The Scottish half marathon starts at Meadowmill sports centre near Tranent and ends at Musselburgh race course. Lots of support on route and a few bagpipers too. I started off too fast as usual and struggled into the wind on the 2nd half of the route. Missed out on my 1:30 target, finishing in 1:31:08. Maybe next time! Looking forward to my 1st full marathon at Loch Ness in a few weeks.

The Eildons hill race was on Saturday having been postponed from earlier in the year. It was the 60th anniversary and it was part of the Scottish Hill Runners championship this year and attracted a stronger field than normal years. A different route was used this year in response to COVID restrictions at the time of planning.
A very well organised event by Gala Harriers, many thanks.

There were junior races introduced this year and well done to Elena Lee third female in the Three Eildons 4km hill race. Results: https://www.galaharriers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Eildon-Junior-race-results-excel-2021-PDF.pdf

Three Moorfoots took part in the Three Hills Race covering 4.5 miles/7.1km and 1,500feet/460m ascent.
Milan Misak finished in a strong 17th position, Colin Williams 30th (7th M40) and David Waldie 71st (15th M40)
Colin said: 'Nice weather and I felt like I had a decent run - got carried away on the first hill and went rather purple with the exertion and then had two more hills to do!'


Further north Pete Hall and Tim Warner were in action at the Three Mealls 18km Trail Race, part of the Salamon Glencoe Skyline race weekend. Tim said "It was a fairly challenging technical course, but really enjoyed it (and didn’t fall over!)."

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