Author Archives: Rob

It seemed such a great idea for somebody going frequently on a jolly jog in the Pentlands to finally patch the different parts together.  Doing ‘The Skyline’ just sounded fabulous, and up to the morning of the race I was … Continue reading →

Actually, I didn’t, but I thought such a title might grab your attention :-). With Andrea in Aberdeen and Mike B madly running the Jersey marathon, I seemed to be the only Harrier wanting to enjoy the fabulous forecast in … Continue reading →

Ensuring that we would not get roped into helping Susie move house, Mike Brooks and I decided that it would be much less effort to go running in the Borders for several hours. The Two Breweries is probably one of … Continue reading →

Until a few days ago, I was under the impression that I was preparing (or resting) for The Two Breweries on the 22nd. Unfortunately, Andrea’s partner (Lisa) for the upcoming Cairngorm Adventure Triathlon (CAT) had to pull out at the … Continue reading →

16.2km and 760m Conditions: Sunny and warm to start with – clouding in later. The Lomonds race is similar in distance and height to the Dollar Hill Race which boded well for my training for the longer races in September … Continue reading →

As I was the only Harrier who ran Largo Law, I was not going to write a blog post. Who really cares what a middle age bloke, with the mental age of a 22-year old, does in a race? However, … Continue reading →

Day 1 of a two week holiday – Andrea (with much persuasion) and I just ran Dollar. This is one of my favourite hill races: 15km, 850m climb. http://www.scottishhillracing.co.uk/RaceDetails.aspx?RaceID=RA-0071 This is a race of 3 flavours; after a quick half … Continue reading →

Jan 21st. Weather: Sunny, mild but with stiff westerly wind. Warm in sheltered sunny corners. We were lucky – race was sandwiched between heavy rain showers on the way to and back from Falkland (which is nice village by the … Continue reading →

The last long hill race of the year, the Skyline (26.6km, 1600m) http://www.scottishhillracing.co.uk/RaceDetails.aspx?RaceID=RA-0107) is always my personal nemesis, but in the context of the Ochil2000s and Breweries, it is probably the easiest of the three. The difficulty of this race, … Continue reading →

Similar in length and elevation to the Ochil 2000s (30km, 1500m), this was race two of the 3 ‘biggies’ I am trying to stumble my way around. Pentland Skyline next. More info on race can be found here: http://www.scottishhillracing.co.uk/RaceDetails.aspx?RaceID=RA-0103 Conditions … Continue reading →

With 50 mins before I leave for the Breweries (gulp!), I thought I would quickly tell you all about the Cairngorm Adventure Triathlon (CAT). Andrea did it with a friend last weekend. More details can be found here: http://www.cairngormadventuretriathlon.org/ Compared … Continue reading →

Penicuik, 9am, Aug 27th, 2011. Mike Brooks and I left Penicuik with some trepidation as it was drizzling and the cloud was down. Our spirits did NOT rise at Grangemouth when the heavens really opened. However, as we neared Stirling, … Continue reading →

With some minor guilt I slipped out the back road from Penicuik to avoid the Parade and popped down to Broughton for the Broughton Heights race which was part of the UKA Inter Counties Fell/Hill Race Championships. This meant that … Continue reading →

Finally got my act in gear to go through the results. As we are 4 races in, the competition is heating up. Well – actually not – even if Duncan and Andrea had their legs amputated tomorrow, it would make … Continue reading →