Results: Club, Charity and Ballot
1 Result | unofficial results | Club: moorfoot runners
| Place overall | Place gender | Place category | Name | Club | Runner no | Category | HALF | FINISH | |
| 7522 | 6239 | 586 | » Nichol, Paul (GBR) | Moorf... | 23734 | 50-54 | 01:42:14 | 03:36:59 |  |
Saturday, 2 May 2015
London Marathon
Congrats to Paul Nichol who completed the London Marathon last weekend:-
Results: Club, Charity and Ballot
Results: Club, Charity and Ballot
Friday, 1 May 2015
Gypsy Glen Hill Race 2015 - Race Details
Race details for this year's race below - registration at Gytes from 6:00pm; race starts at 7:00pm in Victoria Park (5mins from Gytes) to avoid a road crossing en route; please allow enough time to get to the Start...
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Scottish 5K champs
A good turn out of Moorfoot vests at the Run and become, Scottish 5k champs at Silverknowes last night. The wind was up and the temperature was down made the flat course pretty hard going, saying that, the course record was broking by GB vest Callum Hawkins in a time of 14:19. He was in full flow on the home straight when most of us were running towards the turn, magic to watch. This was a high class field with 9 runners under 15 mins, 28 under 16 mins and 178 beating the 19 min mark.
In form Craig Rendle was first Moorfoot home in a time of 17:04, Sam MacNeil 17:32, Darin Dougal 17:43, myself ( Coxy) 17:54 and Scott McDonald 18:32. Local runner Dean Whiteford who traveled through with the boys came in 16:59.
A few emails pinging about today and cross checking of gps watches, have came to the conclusion that the course was slightly long, made no difference to myself, but anyone chasing to brake certain times may have been disappointed.
Full results : http://www.winningtimeuk.com/index.php?page=results&event=374&sort=rank&offset=4
In form Craig Rendle was first Moorfoot home in a time of 17:04, Sam MacNeil 17:32, Darin Dougal 17:43, myself ( Coxy) 17:54 and Scott McDonald 18:32. Local runner Dean Whiteford who traveled through with the boys came in 16:59.
A few emails pinging about today and cross checking of gps watches, have came to the conclusion that the course was slightly long, made no difference to myself, but anyone chasing to brake certain times may have been disappointed.
Full results : http://www.winningtimeuk.com/index.php?page=results&event=374&sort=rank&offset=4
Monday, 27 April 2015
Highlander Mountain Marathon 2015
This year's Highlander Mountain Marathon was held in the Assynt area - a stunningly scenic wilderness of bog and rock on the west coast, north of Ullapool. This is the land of Ben More Assynt, Suilven, Canisp, Quinaig, Stac Pollaidh for the mountain aficionado...
Despite the warm spring sunshine and above average temperatures of last week, the forecast was for snow...
Team Moorfoot Eddie/Kenny (A class)
Day1
Snow down to road level on way to start and thermometer dropping - intermittent sleet and hail - full winter kit off and on between the squalls - sunshine one minute, blast of rather large hailstones the next, incredible spindrift higher up...
A tough day on the hill - was hating bog and peat hags until we came across endless large boulder fields of jagged rocks (come back peat hags, all is forgiven..) - not much running happening...
Eddie's normal 'diesel-like engine' was misfiring a bit..
Some time made up crossing some higher snow fields in the higher corries, then more jagged stuff and the inevitable bog and peat hags again.
But, no major navigation errors - day1 completed in 9.5 hours (ouch!) - just over 30Km and 1600m climbing
Back to base camp, somewhat chilled to the bone, for three rounds of pasta, a beer and then into the tent, where I luxuriated in my combo of slightly heaver than the average sleeping bag and half kilo (I weighed it!) of Thermarest sleeping mat...the slightly more weight conscious competitor lying shivering but smug in the knowledge that their sleeping paraphernalia was 300g lighter...
Day2
More snow on the hills overnight, but the 'forecast' meant to be better...
Up at 0530 to use the heated marquee to dry out a few items ahead of another long day.
0700 start - river crossing (shin deep), before we had even picked up our course map and course details...
Snow line entered after about ten minutes (ie. beyond the first bog) and then it went all dark, and pretty much for the rest of the day it snowed - not as windy as day1, but incessant, big, wet sleety flakes...and really cold...
Five and a half hours in, just after summiting the saddle of Suilven (650m) in several inches of snow, we made the decision to 'retire' at the next control point - realizing that we were probably not up for a ten hourer....
As it was, it was still about 5 miles back to the finish, and the best bogs kept for the home run - we were back in around 8 hours after starting. Not sure of the distance, but didn't feel like much less than day1 !
An epic weekend - winners of A class were under 11 hours over the two days - amazing...
Only eight of nineteen completed the A-class course - many other teams retired on day2 also.
Slight delays on the road home (stuck behind snow ploughs on the A9) but home in the day light.
Really tough terrain, but great location and superb organisation - looking forward to 2016....
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| Northern corrie of Ben More Assynt - day1 |
Team Moorfoot Eddie/Kenny (A class)
Day1
Snow down to road level on way to start and thermometer dropping - intermittent sleet and hail - full winter kit off and on between the squalls - sunshine one minute, blast of rather large hailstones the next, incredible spindrift higher up...
A tough day on the hill - was hating bog and peat hags until we came across endless large boulder fields of jagged rocks (come back peat hags, all is forgiven..) - not much running happening...
Eddie's normal 'diesel-like engine' was misfiring a bit..
Some time made up crossing some higher snow fields in the higher corries, then more jagged stuff and the inevitable bog and peat hags again.
But, no major navigation errors - day1 completed in 9.5 hours (ouch!) - just over 30Km and 1600m climbing
Back to base camp, somewhat chilled to the bone, for three rounds of pasta, a beer and then into the tent, where I luxuriated in my combo of slightly heaver than the average sleeping bag and half kilo (I weighed it!) of Thermarest sleeping mat...the slightly more weight conscious competitor lying shivering but smug in the knowledge that their sleeping paraphernalia was 300g lighter...
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| Canisp - day2 |
Day2
More snow on the hills overnight, but the 'forecast' meant to be better...
Up at 0530 to use the heated marquee to dry out a few items ahead of another long day.
0700 start - river crossing (shin deep), before we had even picked up our course map and course details...
Snow line entered after about ten minutes (ie. beyond the first bog) and then it went all dark, and pretty much for the rest of the day it snowed - not as windy as day1, but incessant, big, wet sleety flakes...and really cold...
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| Organiser Alex Keith keeping warm out on course in his bivvy bag |
Five and a half hours in, just after summiting the saddle of Suilven (650m) in several inches of snow, we made the decision to 'retire' at the next control point - realizing that we were probably not up for a ten hourer....
As it was, it was still about 5 miles back to the finish, and the best bogs kept for the home run - we were back in around 8 hours after starting. Not sure of the distance, but didn't feel like much less than day1 !
An epic weekend - winners of A class were under 11 hours over the two days - amazing...
Only eight of nineteen completed the A-class course - many other teams retired on day2 also.
Slight delays on the road home (stuck behind snow ploughs on the A9) but home in the day light.
Really tough terrain, but great location and superb organisation - looking forward to 2016....
Sunday, 26 April 2015
Juniors Excel on East Lomond
Sunshine, wind, some light rain and even some sleet and hail made for some tough conditions today at this year’s East Lomond Hill race run by Fife AC and the 5-strong Moorfoot contingent came away with 3 wins, a 2nd and a 3rd.
It's a tough old climb to the summit and Holly Hobbs, still in P5, took on much older competitors in the U13's up and down race and came home 3rd overall, with only two boys ahead of her, and a comfortable winner of the girls race in 14.25.
Big sis Beth, the U13G record holder from 2014, stepped up to the U15G category and ran well for 3rd in the one lap 2.8km race in a time of 17.26, a time which would have won that race last year.
Ethan Elder charged down from the summit and held on well for a win in 15.42 in the U15B race over the same lap and Mairi Wallace was 2nd in the U17W two-lap 5.6km race in 34.04, 46 seconds inside the previous course record.
All the above will still be eligible to race in the same age-groups next year.
The final win of the day came from Lucas Cheskin in the U20M 3-lap race, 53 seconds ahead of Gav Bryson from Gala.
Well done all. #toughasoldboots
It's a tough old climb to the summit and Holly Hobbs, still in P5, took on much older competitors in the U13's up and down race and came home 3rd overall, with only two boys ahead of her, and a comfortable winner of the girls race in 14.25.
Big sis Beth, the U13G record holder from 2014, stepped up to the U15G category and ran well for 3rd in the one lap 2.8km race in a time of 17.26, a time which would have won that race last year.
Ethan Elder charged down from the summit and held on well for a win in 15.42 in the U15B race over the same lap and Mairi Wallace was 2nd in the U17W two-lap 5.6km race in 34.04, 46 seconds inside the previous course record.
All the above will still be eligible to race in the same age-groups next year.
The final win of the day came from Lucas Cheskin in the U20M 3-lap race, 53 seconds ahead of Gav Bryson from Gala.
Well done all. #toughasoldboots
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Why do you run?
If you've got time and are willing to write it down then ping me an email [jpanichol@gmail.com)
Why do you run? This can be as long or as short as you like.
What is your favourite run / race?
Where do you draw your motivation from?
I'm going to compile this from a variety of sources and will share the output when I've got enough.
Paul Nichol..
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