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D33 Ultra – Saturday 16th March 2013

Headed north on Friday night with my pal Carole Fortune (Gala Harriers) for third visit to the D33. Overnight stay in Banchory at my cousins (which is kind of handy) and an earlyish night. The D33 is the first in … Continue reading

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Chapelgill Hill Race 2013

The day did not start well. Cold wet snow falling, Andrea’s tennis being cancelled and me having to put up with her grumpiness as she realised she had no choice but to run Chapelgill – a rather ridiculously short sharp … Continue reading

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Bowhill Duathlon Race 3

My heart sank when I discovered there was snow on Sunday morning – 3 out of 3 races with snow or ice is not what I wanted!  However as we headed towards the Scottish Borders the snow disappeared giving way … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Parkrun – Sat 23rd Feb

Peter AVENT (SM25-29) of Penicuik Harriers, was first over the line in 16:51 – 8th time in 51 appearances. Well done Pete! http://www.parkrun.org.uk/edinburgh/news/

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43rd Carnethy 5 Hill Race

Many thanks to Olly Stephenson and his team at Carnethy for organising a great race last Saturday. 15 Harriers took part and enjoyed a race in beautiful weather conditions even if a bit soggy underfoot.  Some newcomers and a few … Continue reading

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Devils Burden Race 2013

This year the Harriers managed to put two teams together – the girls and the boys. The forecast was light wind, ca. 4 degrees and low mist in the morning – lifting by lunchtime. The reality was much more dreich … Continue reading

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Bowhill Duathlon Race 2

Jamie and I pitched up at a very snowy and slushy Selkirk for the second race (the medium distance) of the Bowhill Duathlon.  Bumped into Mark who was doing it solo and not splitting the pain like we were and … Continue reading

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Carnethy 5 Shin Scraper

Seven of us, well eight if you include Mike Brooks who we bumped into, had a wee adventure in the Pentlands – photos are in the album here.. [picasa width=”600″ height=”450″ bgcolor=”#000000″ autoplay=”1″ showcaption=”1″ user=”penicuikharriers” album=”es_Carnethy5ShinScraper”]

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Feel The Burns race

Saturday saw the inaugural Feel The Burns Race at Selkirk I went on my lonesome but bumped in to Tim and a couple of my pals along with 140 other soles mad enough to take on the snowy conditions on … Continue reading

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Penicuik Harriers Annual Ceilidh

Ceilidh being held on Saturday 16th February this year at a new venue this year!  St Mungo’s Hall, Kirkhill Road is the venue at 8pm with Bill Richardson and his band with Annabel Oates calling the dances it promises to … Continue reading

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Christmas Day Run

Well done the the hearty souls who enjoyed a run up Carnethy on Christmas Day – photo here in our album http://penicuikharriers.org.uk/photograph-album/?picasaViewAlbumId=ChristmasDay2012%2C0

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Greenmantle Dash

  Here are the results for the Greenmantle Dash on the 2nd. It was a fantastic day and another good turn out for the Harriers. Dry for a change lets hope this is a dign of things to come after … Continue reading

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Queens Drive Race

A lovely winter’s day for the first of the GP road races. The sun was out and the temperature perfect.As Dave said it was a bit slippy on the grass. From reports from my hubby a few runners went down. … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Trail Running Series

As mentioned at the run session earlier: http://www.facebook.com/tritrailrun?ref=stream There’s only a facebook page at the moment but there are some more details on entry central https://www.entrycentral.com/tri-trail Be quick – it’s half full and it it was only announced yesterday! Alister

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Peebles (Glorious) XC – Nov 2012

This report was written by Vicky & pinched by Susie. Following the heads up from Carl I have collated the timings for the harriers who took part today. It was a great day. Lovely going for a run in the … Continue reading

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