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This is the Carnegie Hillbillies Blog. We are the hill running section of Carnegie Harriers running club, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It will keep you up to date with all the news and information we in the hill running section are up to.
If you are not a member of Carnegie Harriers running club then we hope the Blog will give you an insight into what the club is all about and encourage you to come along to one of our training sessions. The club meets for training at The Dunfermline Academy of Sport, Pitreavie Playing Fields, Dunfermline at 6.15pm (for a 6.30pm start). The Academy of Sport offer superb changing / showering facilities along with a licensed bar and cafe.
During the Summer we also have hill running sessions on Thursday nights. We are often seen in the Lomonds or the Ochils on the weekends too.
We also compete all over Scotland in many of Scottish Hill Runners events. You will recognise us with our bright fluoresent Green and Orange colours.
We are a friendly club that welcomes new members of all abilities regardless of whether you are a serious competitor or just wanting to keep fit.
http://www.carnegieharriers.co.uk/
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John Blyth @ 7:44 pm
Well, you don’t know me from a hole in the wall but:
Your site makes me nostalgic - I was born and raised in Dunfermline, and often went on long hikes in the local countryside, and also the mountains. I’d even occasionally jog down to Limekilns or Inverkeithing, or over to Cowdenbeath, in my steel-toed boots, a loner, uncognizant that there were kindred spirits all over the place who would meet to form a club like yours.
Fast-forward 2 or 3 decades, and here I am, having started running in 2001 at the age of 44, in the middle of Canada, where I’m now part of an endurance sports club (http://www.westmantriumphs.com/) - now I’ve run 6 marathons (PB 3:38) and a couple of Ironman races and lots of shorter races. I’m not fast, and have certainly never won anything - so I greatly applaud the change that has come over the athletics community in the intervening years, from when only the very talented people were encouraged to train or race at all. There is great joy to be had in just doing better than last year, or better than the guy that you had to work hard to get ahead of, regardless of how many other people are lost up ahead, much faster than you’ll ever be. And joy in just making your legs move a bit faster than you though they could; in finding that your comfort zone is only a tiny part of where you are and who you can be.
Another marathon is coming up for me this weekend in Winnipeg, and I am inspired by the photos of the Auld Toun 10k, and the Jura Fell Race - I have a hilly 125k Ultra coming up in the mountains of Alberta in August, which, I have little doubt, will remind me of many hours spent slogging up and down Ben This, Stob That, across Bealach Something, and hopping down through the springy heather over the endless Meall Something Else.
I used to sing in the choir of the Abbey, which is visible today from my favourite Auntie’s house. I shall be back, and one day I’ll do your Auld Toun 10k through the Glen, up and about, every inch of it still familiar from long past. See you then!