August 11, 2008

Caerketton Hill Race - The last in the Bog and Burn series


This is a very sharp and short hill race starting from Hillend Ski centre on Wednesday night, 13th August. The record is under 13 mins. A tough climb up and a crazy run down. who is up for it?

Alison West and Neil Campbell were the two Hillbillies up for this lung busting dash up and down Caeketton Hill. A hard hard climb up to the two summits and then a mad dash back down after. There had been a lot of rain so it made the final run in quite interesting.

Neil finished in 19:58 with Alison following shortly behind in 20:52

Full Results HERE

Some more Photos from Steven Fallon HERE

More Photos from Scottish Hill Runners HERE

Filed under Hill Running, Races by Neil

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Andy Symonds wins at the Glenshee ‘9′ Hill Race

Well done to Andy who won the first running of the Glenshee 9 Hill Race. The race is 21miles with 9 Summits and 6000ft of climbing. Andy’s time was 3hrs 26min 24sec

I was speaking to Andy at the start and he said he needed a long Sunday run as part of his training as he is soon heading of to the Rockies in USA for another challenge similar to the Trans Alp.

Carnegie Hillbillies bracketed the field nicely. There were 72 starters and I finished 55 in a time of 5hrs 54min 14 sec with only four runners finishing behind me. Room for improvement.

neil campbell

This is a tough race and we were fortunate to get clear running conditions. If the weather was bad you would need to be good at navigating as there are not many paths on the route.

This was a very well organised race and I would highly recommend it if you want a challenge next year.

Full results HERE.

Some great photos from Steve Fallon HERE

Filed under Hill Running, Races, Results by Neil

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