Moorfoot Runners Glentress Trail Race - Sunday 26th April

Following the success of the club's inaugral Cardrona Trail Race, the next leg in the Series is now confirmed for Sunday 26th April, venue Glentress.

Exact route and starting location to be confirmed but there have been murmurs about 'the radio mast', and perhaps starting at Soonhope (just up from the Hydro stables on the outskirts of Peebles) such that you don't have to pay £3 to park at Glentress.

'Oaty flapjacks' will be back again by popular demand too....

The turn-out and support at Cardrona was great - let's see if we can match this again.....if you have any suggestions or comments about race format, handicapping, etc. drop a 'Comment' at the foot of this post on the blogger....

Moorfoots at Alloa Half Marathon

Five Moorfoots made the journey through to Clackmananshire on Sunday for the Alloa Half Marathon. The benign conditions of last week were replaced by a somewhat overcast day with a strong westerly wind which played it part in the race, requiring some 'canny' drafting tactics in the long straight along the foot of the Ochills between miles five and ten.

First home, was Wull Hynd in a time of 1hr 17mins. This was Wull's second Half marathon in two weekends, having run the Meadows Charity event last weekend in a 'tu-tu' in a time only one minute slower than his Alloa time.

The ever improving Aegir Maciver came home next in 1hr 26mins, removing a huge nine full minutes from his previous Half Marathon best at Jedburgh in 2008. (we told you the new Moorfoot 'racer' shorts were fast....)

Kenny Davidson put in a solid shift with 1hr 27mins; Steve Martin was a bit below par at 1hr 33mins; Julia Conner though found the course and conditions to her liking and despite recent fatigue still managed an excellent 1hr 36mins.

Final times at the race website

Moorfoots at the Traquair Mighty Deerstalker

Darin Dougal , Mike McGovern and Colin Williams joined another ~1200 runners in the local Mighty Deerstalker 'adventure' race at Traquair on Saturday evening.

Conditions were near perfect (certainly for the spectators) as 'roving reporter' arrived at the 'pond' next to the Innerlethen mountain bike car park only to see the slowest of the 1200 pack disappear into the forest and miss the spectable of the pond crossing.

After an ascent and descent of Caddonbank, the lead runners reappeared at the foot of the Leithen Burn, where Darin was up to third place and Mike only a few minutes behind; Colin appeared shortly afterwards well up the race and certianly in the top 20.

After ascending Pirn Craig, some scree traversing, more ascent/descent, some further river wading and a bit of river bank single track, the runners were back at the Innerleithen Bridge for the double drainage tunnel submersion (waste deep water, muddy bank exit) before the final mile back to Traquair House for the finish.

Don't know the final results yet but looked like a team prize (Colin, Darin and one of Colin's pals) could have been on the cards and certainly a strong showing from all of the Moorfoot participants...

Update - the Deerstalker results are out.
Darin 3rd,
Mike 7th
Colin 12th

Beltane 10K Planning Meeting

To all club members

Next meeting of Beltane 10k organizing commitee will be at Gytes Leisure Centre on Friday March 20th at 7 30pm. All club members welcome - look forward to seeing you all there.

Cheers Dave

Moorfoot Runner on the TV...

Eagle eyed viewers of 'Monty Hall's Great Escape' (BBC2, Sun 9:00am) may have noticed that this weeks episode showed Monty Hall taking part in the 2008 Glamaig Hill Race on Skye - prominant as ever was the Moorfoot vest, worn by one Russell Anderson.....

Moorfoot Runners Cardrona Trail Race - race report

Pic - New Moorfoot kit in action at Cardrona

The first of the Moorfoot Runners' trail race series got off to a very successful start with 22 runners taking on the challenging course around Cardrona Forest course.

Organisers James and Rachael had been out the day before marking the 6.5 mile course with flour, which despite the gale force winds during Saturday had remained in place for the much more benign conditions the runners experienced on the Sunday race day.

Runners were assigned handicapped start times based on approximate 10K road race times - the fastest runner (James) starting 26 mins behind the first runners off.

Racing proved to be quite close with the first three runners home being separated by only 30 seconds, and the top ten spread across a relatively narrow 2:30 minutes.

1st Place - Russell

2nd Place - Alison

3rd Place - Colin

Full race time and results - click here

All in all, a very successful event, well supported by the club....a big thanks to James for organising.

Thanks also to Hilary for doing the time keeping, Kirsty for the 'flap-jacks', George for the photos (click here to see the full set on Flikr) and to our guest runners for taking part.

Here's looking forward to the Glentress leg - date to be confirmed and details will be posted on the Blogger.

Moorfoot Club Trail Race - Cardrona 15-March

Updated: - runners and riders with final start times (13-March) now confirmed - remember to give yourself ~15mins to get from the Cardrona Village Hall to the start line in the forest, and bring a jacket to keep warm before and after.

Mike P 10:00:00
Mrs McLeod 10:07:12
Jock 10:07:12
Alison 10:07:12
Dave 10:08:48
Richard 10:08:48
Rhoda 10:12:00
Andrew 10:13:30
Trevor 10:14:00
Rachael 10:15:00
Mick 10:15:36
Paul 10:15:36
Julia 10:16:48
Johnny 10:18:36
Russell 10:19:12
Colin 10:20:24
Kenny 10:20:24
Aegir 10:20:24
Mark 10:21:00
Steve 10:22:48
Darin 10:24:48
Mike M 10:24:48
James 10:26:00


The first of the club handicap trail races organised by James Britton is at Cardrona on Sunday 15-March, meeting at Cardrona Village Hall at 9:45am; the start line is about 10 mins warmup from here.
(See earlier post - click here)

Please indicate if you are planning to participate by posting a 'Comment'* providing your name and a fairly recent 10K time such that James can work out your handicap in advance.
(Those who have run in the recent Borders XC series will have their handicaps calculated from their race times)

It's a fun event, so let's see if we can get a good turn-out and make it a good social event as well as a good run.
The distance is about 6 miles and the course is mainly on the forest roads, so there are no special footwear requirements (standard road trainers will be fine)

There are two further races planned, probably in May (Glentress ?) and June (John Buchan Way ?), so keep watching the blogger for more details.

* Posting a Comments - remember to provide your name by highlighting the Name/URL radio button; comments come to the Webmaster for 'moderation' before being published, so you may see a slight delay from the time you write the comment until it appears on the blogger