A short tutorial for hill runners and fell runners on descending and how to get down a hill quickly.
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Five Hillbillies made it down to Broughton to take part in the Two Breweries Hill race. The race is part of the SHR Championships as well as our own Grand Prix.
As this is a one way race we all jumped on a bus at the brewery and headed over to the other brewery Traquair. Apart from having a brewery Traquair is the oldest inhabited house in Scotland.
Results HERE
Two Breweries Race Profile
Hillbillies promoting Broughton Ales.
More Photos HERE
Even More Photos HERE
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Richie Cunningham completes the Ultra Tour Du Mont Blanc
Carnegie Hillbilly Richie Cunningham has just taken his ultra running to another level having completed the Ultra Tour Du Mont Blanc over the weekend.
Richie was amongst another 2000 competitors in the 166km race from Chamonix, France which involved over 27,000 feet of ascent around the gruelling course which crosses the borders into Italy and Switzerland before returning to Chamonix.
Very well done to Richie who placed 307th overall in 36 hrs 53 mins 37 secs.
Richie has written a report on his blog HERE
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Monday 25th – Saturday 30th August – TransRockies Run, Colorado, USA
Congratulations to Andy Symonds who has completed an incredible six days of endurance running to finish second overall in the 2008 Gore-tex TransRockies Run in the Colorado Rockies.
Transrockies Briefing
The event which involved over 100 miles of running with around 27,000 feet of climbing saw Andy and his team mate (Tom Owens) win one of the six stages, place second in four stages and third in another.
Running in the Rockies
So after six days of intense competition at an average altitude of around 12,000 feet the gruelling event was won by Team Nike with Andy’s Saab Salomon team placing a superb second overall.
Camping in the Rockies
Over 130 teams completed the event. Further race reports and videos can be found on the event’s website by clicking HERE.
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Six Hillbillies took up the challenge of the Ochil 2000, race 10 in the hill running Grand Prix
Well done to Kenny MacDonald for coming in first Hillbilly in a time of 3.35.03
It was a tough and long course particularly towards the back end of the route.
Ochil 2000 race profile
Carnegie results
| Pos | Runner | Cat | Time |
| 58 | Kenny MacDonald | MV | 03:35:03 |
| 110 | Colin Reynolds | MS | 04:08:14 |
| 111 | Andrew Sim | MV | 04:08:36 |
| 140 | Allan Macaulay | MSV | 04:32:39 |
| 144 | Alison West | FSV | 04:39:41 |
| 156 | Neil Campbell | MV | 04:59:05 |
Full Results HERE
More Photos from SHR HERE
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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.
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
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Andy (spot the new shoes), Tiger, Paul and Neil ran from Scotlandwell the leg 3 route as far as the Well checkpoint. Paul went on to Strathmiglo and Andy, Tiger and Neil ran back to Scotlandwell.
Stats: 8.03 miles 2:16 hrs 2395 ft elevation
Neil, Paul, Andy (check out the laces) and Tiger
At the well
I had the camera on video at the top of West Lomond so here is a wee video of the day.
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