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Devils Burden Relay – 25 Jan 2014

Date: 11/12/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Featured Events, Hill Running

Entries for the 2014 Devils Burden Relay are expected to open soon. This is a 6 person team relay event over 4 legs ranging between 6.5km and 10km. Two legs are run as individuals, the other two being run in pairs. If you’re interested in taking part next year let Roddy Pugh or…

Cairn Table

Date: 25/07/2013
Author: mcorson
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Categories: Hill Championship, Hill Running, News & Results

Muirkirk was the setting for another race in the Bog and Burn series of hill races. The Cairn Table race involves 360m of climbing on an out and back course(straight to the top and staight back down again!) with the main hazard being boggy sections on the relatively flattish sections…

Maddy Moss Hill Race

Date: 12/07/2013
Author: amurray
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If it’s Wednesday it must be another Bog & Burn hill race! After taking part in the Rowallan Rosebowl on Tuesday next night Roddy, Mike and I headed off to the Ochil Hills for the Maddy Moss Hill Race, another in the midweek Bog & Burn Hill Race series. For Mike…

Cort ma Law Hill Race

Date: 07/06/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Hill Running, News & Results

Report by Mike Corson, our leading uphill runner For the average runner, hills, are an occasional Jim Young session in winter, or just something that gets in the way of a pb on a fast 10k course. For some it is the race itself! Wednesday evening saw three…

Kilpatrick Hill Race

Date: 02/06/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Hill Championship, Hill Running, News & Results

Next up for Kilmarnock’s growing band of hill runners was the 10.2km Kilpatrick Hill Race, just over the Erskine Bridge. Five Harriers took on this 426m ascent with Stephen Gilmour making another hill debut. This race involves a short road section to start followed by a relatively steep ascent which…

Goatfell Hill Race – “……better go to Specsavers”

Date: 20/05/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Hill Running, News & Results

Roddy Pugh, Stephen Gilmour and I headed to Arran on Saturday 18th May for the Goatfell Hill Race. This year, being part of the Scottish Hill Racing championship series, the race had an entry of over 200, probably double the normal field. The race is an “out and back”…

Highland Fling Relay 2013

Date: 28/04/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Hill Running, News & Results

Two years after running the Highland Fling as solo runners John Cairns, Al Murray and Mike Corson were joined by Stephen Gilmour to take the easier option and enter a relay team for the event, a 53 mile run on the southern half of the West Highland Way from…

Beinn Dubh Hill Race

Date: 25/04/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Hill Running, News & Results

Another week, another hill race….this time Beinn Dubh, just outside Luss and the 2nd race in the Bog & Burn Scottish hill race series. Once again Roddy and I made the journey on a beautiful sunny evening (very different from last weeks windswept Kaim Hill), with views of Loch Lomond,…

Keep calm and run Kaim Hill

Date: 18/04/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Hill Championship, Hill Running, News & Results

Organiser Scott McKendrick presented a slightly different race route this year which cut out most of the trod up the side of the glen and instead, took us across the burn after about 100m up the glen, through a kissing gate and diagonally across a field towards Kaim hill. A long…