Cardrona Club handicap and runs report - Sunday 29 November

Firstly I'd like to thank Pete Hall for organising, and the various helpers – the Hall family, Ian and Anne Nimmo and Pete Caddick. It was a great handicap and junior run. With the year we've had it was great to see people enjoying themselves 17 junior and 26 senior runners it was a fab turnout. 

Pete’s report:

The results of the runs in the woods. 

Junior Runs –

               U14 Girls Winner – Lilly Jackson, 12:19

               U14 Boys Winner – Sam Fitzgerald, 10:45

               U16 Girls Winner – Lola Lockyer, 20:08

               U16 Boys Winner – Jake Lockyer, 19:08

Some great running by all here – really interested in what the ‘Lockyer Clan’ have for breakfast though, cleaning up in the U16’s 😊

Senior Run -

               First Lady over Finish Line – Emma Jackson

               First Man over Finish Line – Niall Jackson

               Fastest Lady – Alex Campbell, 38:00

               Fastest Man – Marty Davidson, 30:51

 

Emma, Niall….now we know how fast you ‘really’ are 😊

All results below.

Thanks all for attending – goods to see people coming out of ‘hibernation’. 

Many thanks to ‘Team Nimmo’ and Pete Caddick for start/finish line duties – much appreciated.

Good luck on the next handicap event….we now know who the fast ones are 😊

Junior Start List	Age Group	Route	Finish Position	Time	Race Position
Johnny Birks	U12	Short	4	00:10:48	4
Austen Williams	U12	Short	6	00:11:50	6
Robert Horton	U12	Short	2	00:10:46	2
Callum Fitzgerald	U14	Long	15	00:20:11	4
Sam Fitzgerald	U10	Short	1	00:10:45	1	Boys First Place U12
Frazer Harvie	U12	Short	5	00:11:44	5
Ava Mooney	U14	Long	17	00:20:41
Emma Humphries	U12	Short	9	00:15:21	9
Freddie Wilson	U12	Short	8	00:14:48	8
Oscar Alcorn	U10	Short	10	00:15:40	10
Isaac Alcorn	U10	Short	11	00:16:30	11
Lola Lockyer	U14	Long	14	00:20:08	3	Girls First Place U16
Jake Lockyer	U16	Long	12	00:19:08	1	Boys First Place U16
Luke Grieve	U14	Long	16	00:20:27	5
Lilly Jackson	U12	Short	7	00:12:19	7	Girls First Place U12
Dan Moore	U12	Short	2	00:10:46	2
James Moore	U14	Long	13	00:19:14	2

Seniors Handicap

Name	Estimated   Time (minutes)	Start Time	Finish Time	Actual Time	Finishing Position	Scratch Position
Emma Jackson	63	09:27	00:51:49	00:44:49	1	19
Niall Jackson	63	09:27	00:51:49	00:44:49	2	19
Vicky Morrison	53	09:38	00:59:53	00:41:53	3	15
Mike Goddard	53	09:38	01:00:21	00:42:21	4	16
Marty Davidson	40	09:51	01:01:51	00:30:51	5	1	Winner Man
Brian Smith	46	09:45	01:01:55	00:36:55	6	8
Rosie Shankley	48	09:43	01:02:21	00:39:21	7	13
Steve Jones	43:00:00	09:48	01:02:22	00:34:22	8	6
Tim Warner	53	09:38	01:02:49	00:44:49	9	19
Heather Young	50	09:41	01:04:17	00:43:17	10	17
Alan Elder	46	09:45	01:04:17	00:39:17	10	12
Dean Carr	41	09:50	01:04:44	00:34:44	12	7
Kerry Law	53	09:38	01:04:44	00:46:44	13	22
Colin Williams	38:30:00	09:52:30	01:04:45	00:32:15	14	2
Ali Burrell	70	09:20	01:05:18	01:05:18	15	23
Mike McGovern	39	09:52	01:05:26	00:33:26	16	4
Ewan Gibson	50	09:41	01:05:30	00:44:30	17	18
Alex Campbell	43:30:00	09:47:30	01:05:30	00:38:00	18	10	Winner Lady
Philip Morrison	45	09:46	01:05:43	00:39:13	19	11
Darin Dougal	40	09:51	01:05:47	00:34:47	20	8
Martin Holt	43:30:00	09:47:30	01:05:53	00:37:23	21	9
Robbie Devlin	39	09:52	01:06:04	00:34:04	22	5
Danny Lavin	37	09:54	01:06:53	00:32:53	23	3
Kyle Mccolm	45	09:46	01:06:59	00:40:59	24	14
Gillian Carr	43:30:00	09:47:30	01:08:41	00:41:11	25	14

 

Cardrona Club Handicap Run and Junior Sunday Morning Event - Sunday 29th November

We are planning to hold three club handicap races for Moorfoot Runners and friends (from within the Scottish Borders) over the winter for a bit of fun, so please save the dates in your diary for November 29^th (Cardrona),  December 20^th (Innerleithen) and January 31^st 2021 (location to be confirmed). The events will follow the UK and Scottish governments guidelines on Coronavirus, plus the guidelines of Scottish Athletics, and hence are subject to change at any time https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/clubs/club-support/coronavirus/

 

The first event in this ‘highly anticipated’ series will take place on Sunday 29^th November in Cardrona Forest, starting and finishing from the main Forestry Scotland car park on the back road between Peebles and Cardrona, shown here https://goo.gl/maps/ZtKVZe3cGfwn33rq8 

Senior Handicap Race

The handicap is open for Over 16 runners. 

The course is a challenging little number, 4.22 miles in length, with 842 ft of climbing (6.79 Km, 256m), using the ‘new’ trails recently created to and from the car park.  Please see Pete's Strava explore run from a couple of weeks ago as a map https://www.strava.com/activities/4262783464  The course will be marked with tape and/or arrowed….however you may want to familiarise yourself with the course prior to the event.

 

The first runner will be off on or around 09:30am, and last off before 10am depending on the handicapping, which will be based on runners current 10km ‘race pace’ – ok, so you won’t have done a 10Km race in a while but you should know how you are running, so if you plan to attend, please let me know your current 10Km time and we’ll figure out the handicapping.  No sandbagging, exaggerating, faking injuries, etc, to get a more favourable handicap 😊

 

Please email Pete Hall pehall@cisco.com if you are planning to come along and provide your estimated time

Junior Event

We will also have events for the juniors - an Under 12 (1 mile/1.6km/ approx. 340ft climbing) and Under 16 (2 mile/ 3.2km/ approx. 470ft climbing) event, based on part of the course shown on the route map below and explained.  Again, anyone interested please let Gregor and Pete Hall know (pehall@cisco.com)  

 

Both these routes will have marshals on them so no one will get lost (we hope). Note – age of runner is as of 31/8/2020.

 

Practicalities for all

 

Footwear – this is a trail/hill/fell area, not a cross country type course, hence spikes are not recommended.

Toilets – yes, there are toilets at the car park and I believe they are open.

Parking – please be aware parking is limited at Cardrona.  Could we please ask seniors to park in the village and ‘warm up’ on their way back to the car park should this be full.  For parents bringing U16 club members, take whatever space you can but if full, you may need to drop off children and park in Cardrona village also.  Once runs have been completed, where possible please leave the area and head home to keep numbers down.  You also have the option of cycling or running to the event.  There is a parking charge of £1 for one hour and £3 thereafter….so bring some cash.

 

From a Covid 19 perspective, people still need to follow government guidelines re safety, social distancing, etc, hence non-runners please be respectful of this – although this is not a ‘race’, more a run out, should anyone complain the club may well receive unwelcome publicity.

 

We look forward to seeing you there! If you don’t feel like racing but are able to help out marshalling then please let me know and we can use some help. 

Thanks

The Moorfoot Team

 

Senior Route

Junior Route

https://www.strava.com/routes/2763744530948609468

Under 12 (1 mile/1.6km/ approx. 340ft climbing) and Under 16 (2 mile/ 3.2km/ approx. 470ft climbing)

 

Both these routes will have marshals on them so no one will get lost (we hope)

Start point – Forestry Road Entry Gate (usually locked closed)
Up forestry road for 100m, bear left, over foot bridge then left again to come back down east side of burn, then up the old zigzag path. At the top, bear right and come through chicane/barrier and follow path down to the burn.
Repeat the climb
At top for the second time, Under 12 runners return down the new zigzag path
Under 16 runners bear right onto forest road and continue 800m along the road to a turning point marshal and return to finish down the new zig zag path
Finish is the Forestry Gate where the runners started from.

Two Breweries Club Social Run 2020

 

Autumn is upon us, the night air chills and the light of day reduces as we head into the 4^th quarter of 2020. September, is traditionally ‘Breweries’ time of year but due to the restrictions needed to stem the spread of COVID 19, the race was unfortunately cancelled.

So, we decided to arrange or own ‘small scale’ Two Breweries run on Sunday 20^th.

9 runners signed up for the 19 mile, (5000 + foot climb) run from Traquair Brewery over the valleys to Broughton Brewery. Following guidelines, we ensured that no more than 2 households travelled together and kept a 2 meter distance on the way between the start and end points.

Looking Fresh

It started out a cloudy morning – disappointing start considering the potential views on offer!

Easy pace out to the turn at the farm and then up through the gates to Beards Hill. Heading through the gap in the wall, Graeme is attacked by barbed wire. Waist high bracken (beware of the ticks) and we are soon plodding up Birks Hill.

But, by the time we had snacked and descended off Birkscairn into Glensax, the cloud began to lift and the resulting views made the slog up to Hundleshope worthwhile.

 

Down to Glensax - Dean and Gillian can see their hoose frae here!

Group grunting, scorchio calves and we soon on the way through the mush that leads to the contour from Broom hill to Door Hass.

Hundleshope (We have put the band back together!)

More snacks and view admiration and we are off on the quad crusher down to Glenrath Farm. Top ups on water and then a push on to the bottom of the Whitelaw hill firebreak. I have painted a favourable picture of the firebreak climb and everyone is desperately looking forward to it, particularly since it is such a hot day. We reach the bottom of the climb and everyone cheers.

We reach the top, and oddly, people are not cheering. More snacking and I am staring blankly at a half-chomped Tunnock’s Caramel Log in my hand, as fluid leaks from my pores on onto the forest floor.

We move on to ‘Dead Wife’s Grave’ and much discussion….

The Dead Wife's Grave is marked on the OS second edition 6" map, but the OS Name Book of 1856 states there are no remains of any structure. It lies where the old road passes through the parish boundary dyke. Tradition dating back to at least 1775 links the death of the woman with the 1645 Battle of Philiphaugh © Heritage Paths

It’s a good run down to Dawyck Mill and then the turn in to Stobo. Amy and Ewan (the newest Moorfoot member, at that point) had contemplated finishing up here, but decide that they are having so much fun (possibly drifting into type 2 at this point) they would continue through to Broughton.

The forest road is a drag, but the trees provide welcome shade on a hot day. Rounding the reservoir at the head of Weston Burn, the big bad one reveals itself – Trahenna  - the coupon wiper -  lies in the distance. We are small, she is not.

Rather than confront this beastie from the steepest, eastern side, we take a line around Louden Knowe Wood, contour Louden Knowe and head up the more southerly side. More scorched calves and we’re on top of Trahenna.

Just the nasty foot shredding contour around to Ratchill Hill and down its steep slope to the farm and we are on the final section of road. Broughton Brewery is in sight and the pace lifts, and, as Ewan put it, ‘Every step forward is a step towards the pain ending!’

That said….a good day out – smiles and cheers but no beers!