Highland Boundary Races – Race 3 Written on March 8, 2009, by andys.
Race three, “The Deuchary Hill Canter” was a 12 mile steady Sunday trot over the hills to the north of Dunkeld. An enjoyable climb up a mix of paths and tracks up to the rocky outcrop of Deuchary Hill and a fast run in via some picturesque wee lochans and down big forest tracks to [...]
Highland Boundary Races – Race 2 Written on March 7, 2009, by andys.
Race 2: “The Birnam Hill Classic” This 4-mile / 500m climb race was basically another lung-bursting sprint, but this time up a very steep hill rather than along a river. Apart from the lack of banisters it was pretty good training for the tower climb a week on Thursday, lucky because I’ve not found any [...]
Highland Boundary Races – Race 1 Written on March 7, 2009, by andys.
The first of this three-race series kicked off last night at 8pm with an 8km night trail race, “The River Tay Dash”. I was keen to give my new head torch a go having recently splashed out on what I thought was a pretty powerful bit of kit. I was, however, put to shame… As [...]
Glentress – round three Written on March 2, 2009, by andys.
24 hours after the third and final round of the Glentress duathlon series I was still picking clumps of mud from my eyes.. the faster you descend the more mud flies, the less you see and the closer you come to blinding yourself with lumps of Scottish Border crud… Wear glasses and put up with [...]
Johns first blog Written on March 2, 2009, by johnh.
Hello, Â The first thing I should say is I have never written a blog before and the number I have read could be counted on one hand. Forgive me if this is very boring, blame it on my blogging ignorance. Â I have just finished my shortest cross country season in many years, running [...]