Congratulations to Alison “The Vest” West and Pete “The Awesome” Simpson who were amongst the award winners at the Scottish Hill Running annual prize giving on Saturday.
Pete being Awesome on the Glenshee 9
Alison displaying her Carnegie vest proudly
Alison won the F50 category in the Long Classics Series and was 2nd F50 in the Scottish Hill Running Championship. Pete won the 1st M50 award in the Long Classics Series and was 2nd in the SHR Championship. The awards evening was held at the Badaguish Outdoor Centre near Aviemore.
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The results for the Long Classics are in. Out of 726 runners to have run at least 1 race Carnegie had 3 qualifiers.
Pete Simpson was 7th and 1st M50
Neil Campbell was 32nd
Alison West was 36th and 1st F50
Full results can be found by downloading the spreadsheet
http://chris-upson.com/LongClassics/2010/LongClassics2010_final.xls
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Well done to the 6 Hillbillies who took on a very misty Pentland Skyline. This made for tricky navigation and some runners even missed checkpoints.
Pentland Skyline profile
Pentland Skyline route
Results
Alison West got 2nd F50 & Tom Bowie got 2nd M60
Derek Cassels and Neil Campbell both got PB’s
For full results check the Carnethy website
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633 runners have completed at least one race in the SHR Long Classics Series. After 10 races and only the Pentland Skyline to go Peter Simpson is sitting in 7th place and first M50. The only other Hillbilly to have qualified with 5 races so far is Neil Campbell who is placed 23.
From the SHR Site – http://www.shr.uk.com
Stewart Whitlie continues to lead the Scottish Long Classics with just one race remaining. Brian Marshall remains in 2nd place, and Al Anthony has moved up to the 3rd place, just 1 point ahead of Mark Harris.
Brian Marshall or Alasdair Anthony could still win the series, if they record high enough scores at Pentland Skyline.
Andrea Priestley is virtually assured of winning the women’s competition, ahead of Emma O’Shea and Jacqui Higginbottom.
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Well done to the Hillbillies who turned up for the 27th running of the Two Breweries Hill Race.
Two Breweries race route
Two Breweries Race profile
Richie , Pete, Neil,Tom and Fabienne made the trip to take on the 19 miles and 5000 ft of climbing. The 2 Breweries is a one way race so we got a bus to the start and then ran back. The weather was clear and sunny but not too hot. Richie Cunningham had a good race placing 9th. Neil Campbell carried on his string of PB’s going sub 4 hrs and taking 26 minutes off his time. A great race and beer at the end which is a rare treat.
Results are below the photos.
RESULTS
Full results on Scottish Hill Racing
More photos from the Two Breweries race
From Elsie and Peter Baxter:
Oh Lord! – thank for such wonderful: weather, Marshalls, Moffat Mountain Rescue, Landowners, Carl and Nichol in the Kitchen and of course the runners.
A special mention to Alastair from Broughton Brewery, who has retired this year to be replaced by Chris his son. I expect we’ll see him for a few years yet!
A field of 150 starters had a wonderful (?) day, if a little cool, to complete the 27th Two Breweries Race.
The job of Chief Dogsbody is made so much easier when surrounded by a competent team, and this race must exemplify this fact.
Nine Marshall teams and MMR ensured the safe passage of runners, and took care of the few who fell along the way. To those who missed the firebreak on Whitelaw Hill – We will speak to the landowner and try and hack a few branches down…
A big thanks to the Breweries and Adrian from Run and Become for all of the support, and the bus folk (Stuarts of Carluke & Linda!) who put up with the ever increasing requests for bigger buses!
Congratulations to Murray Strain and Andrea Preistley and our other prize winners. Excellent runs despite the stiff breeze.
Many Thanks to you all.
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Well Done to the big turnout of Hillbillies at the Ochils 2000 Hill Race this year.
This is a tough race with 20 miles of running, over 4000 ft of climbing and some good navigational challenges to boot.
Nine Hillbillies took on the challenge.
Carnegie Hillbillies dominated the Vet 50 category with “The Awesome” Pete Simpson picking up the M50 prize and finishing fifth in the race on his first running of the course. This is only Pete’s second season in the hills and he is stamping his name, as well as his feet, all over the Scottish Hill running circuit.
"The Awesome" Pete Simpson
Alison “The Vest” West carried on stocking up her drinks cabinet with yet another F50 category win.
In late breaking news Lady Hillbillies Fabienne, Alison and Melanie won the Ladies team prize. Well done all of you yehah….
The men also won 3rd male team too. Well done to Pete, Steven, Derek and Colin.
Allan Macauley got a ten minute PB, Colin Reynolds knocked 26 minutes off his time and Neil Campbell continued his run of PB’s with an improvement too embarrassingly large to write down. Admittedly last time he ran he jumped off a deer fence after two miles, twisted his ankle and decided that he had started so he would finish the race.
Colin Reynolds
The “True Grit” award goes to Melanie “I’m not going to give up” Sinclair. In her first long hill race and after going over on her ankle last Sunday Melanie stuck in and completed the course even after considering dropping out at Ben Ever.
Results
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Full results are available HERE
A really Big Thank you to Ochil Hill Runners for putting on this great race and all the marshals and helpers who gave up their time to make it happen.
Race Directors Report
From organiser Alex King:
Conditions for the Ochil 2000’s were good except for the wind, everyone could see where they were going making navigation easier. Although lots of runners seemed to have lost the ability to navigate after completing the last summit Dumyat, ending up on the Sherrif Muir road rather than following the quicker Dumyat hill race route to the finish.
The race was won by Oleg Chepelin (Shettleston Harriers) in an impressive 2:46:36, more than a minute faster than Colin Donnelly’s 2008 record. There was then a race for the next three places with Andrew Fallas (Carnethy) 2:52:18, Stuart Whitile (Carnethy) and Mark Harris (Fife AC) all finishing within 5 seconds of each other, Stuart taking the Vet’s Prize. The first Supervet was Peter Simpson (Carnegie), fifth overall in 3:00:29. The Vet 60 prize went to Jim Patterson of Newcastle AC. 3:30:02.
The ladies’ race it was won by Andrea Priestley of Ochil in 3:09:14 and she was also first vet. Second was Claire Gordon HBT in 3:22:19. The supervet prize went to Alison West (Carnegie) in 4:34:01.
As for the team prizes – Carnethy won the Male team prize and Carnegie won the Female team prize. I must apologise to Carnegie because I awarded the prize to HBT who at the time of the prize-giving were the leading female team.
For those of you who love looking at pages of figures, the split times for all 11 controls will be published on www.ochilhillrunners.org.uk later this week.
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Well done to the 6 Hillbillies who braved the hills to complete the Glenshee 9. Peter Simpson won 1st M50 and Alison West won 1st F50.
Peter Simpson - Photo Chris Upson
From race organiser Alastair Hubbard:
There were more than a few nervous faces before the start as low cloud shrouded the Glenshee hills suggesting that strong navigational skills could be a key component for this race! However the tops began to clear within 30 minutes of the start and the 105 runners in the last of the SHR championship counters had little problem finding their way around the nine Munros surrounding Glenshee. Good running conditions were reported and this was reflected in both the male and female records tumbling.
Tom Owens pulled away from Robbie Simpson on the final leg of the race to reduce his record by 13 minutes to 3.07.21. Claire Gordon had a strong race to decimate her record from 2008 by 17mins to 3.56.31.
Other notable performances included Tom Scott as 1st MV60 despite a nasty head plant and the small contingent of runners from Italy (on a hill runners exchange) who lent an Alpine feel to the race with their noisy and exuberant supporters. 91 runners completed.
Thanks go to Braemar MRT, Glenshee Ski Centre and Run4It for their support.
Results
12 Peter Simpson MV50 03:42:05 1st M50
63 Steven King MS 04:52:45
70 Neil Campbell MV40 05:05:39 PB
78 David Greig MV40 05:15:42
79 Alison West FV50 05:24:44 1st F50
84 Fabienne Thompson FV40 05:27:57
Full results can be found on Scottish Hill Runners
Glenshee 9 race profile
“Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough”
Glenshee 9 Hill Race 2010
Glenshee Ski Centre
Sunday 8th August 11am 2010
21 miles 6000ft
Map from Scottish Hill Racing
Glenshee 9 Course - click for large image
3D Map from Steve Fallon
3D map Glenshee 9 - Click for larger map
The 10th event in our Hill Running Grand Prix – The Glenshee 9. The race is 21 miles with 5900ft of climbing. The race starts at Glenshee Ski Centre at 11am and is a counter in the SHR Championship and Long Classics Series. Further details can be found at http://www.glenshee9.co.uk
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Neil Campbell was the sole hillbilly to make it through for the Arrochar Alps hill race.
He improved his PB by one hour on this tough race.
Results
| 29 | Neil Campbell | Carnegie Harriers | M40 | 5:35:06 |
Full results can be found on the SHR site here
Details on Scottish Hill Racing
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