Ben Lomond Hill Race

The Bad Step after the bad weather

Three hardy hillbillies (Sandy Bennet, Alison West & Neil Campbell) turned up for the Ben Lomond Hill race. At the starting line the weather was a bit dreich not unlike a lot of hill races. We were warned to make sure we had full body cover as it was sleet and snow up the hill. After half way up we could see the change in the weather. Shortly after there was a runner being attended by the mountain rescue suffering from hypothermia, not a good sign. By the time we reached the saddle the snow was drifting across the path and blowing straight into our face making it diffucult to see.

I was so pleased to round the cairn and start heading down again if only to get a bit of speed up and warm up a bit. This brought an interesting challenge of descending an slippy icy path which was fairly tricky.  The rest of the race was the usuall fare of filthy, mucky, boggy, rocky routes to the finish.

A well organised race and thanks to the marshals and mountain rescue who stuck it out in really bad conditions.

Thanks to Ken McDougall for the photo

Sandy Bennet was  14th overall in 1.23.21.  Alison West was 1.52.02 to place 2nd F50 and Neil Campbell was 93rd in 1.52.42.

SHR RESULTS HERE