Ochils 2000 Hill Race 2010

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.

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.

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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Position Time Name Category RaceNo Prize 5 03:00:29 Peter Simpson MSV 30 1st MSV 23 03:24:49 Derek Cassells MS 21 26 03:27:00 Steven King MS 13 42 03:42:06 Colin Reynolds MS 56 PB 51 03:48:28 Neil Campbell MV 46 PB 57 04:06:45 Fabienne Thompson FV 25 70 04:21:50 Allan Macaulay MSV 38 PB 73 04:34:01 Alison West FSV 55 1st FSV 81 05:16:10 Melanie Sinclair FS 7

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.