Announcements
Congratulations to David Blane & James McGregor
who took part in the 3k AAAC track race on Wednesday night - Dave
managed 10th place in the race in a time of 10 mins 17.3 secs. He
was beaten by seven seconds by a certain James
McGregor...
Well
done!
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Congratulations to
GRR's Steve Waites, Ian Cran & Graham Donaldson who took part in
the Gordon Way run along this brilliant route along the tops of
Bennachie.
Well
done!
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Congratulations to
GRR's Grahame Thomson who completed the cycling chalenge that he
gave up his sat morning hill run to train for all Spring - the one
up the Applecorss pass with the completely unpronuncable
name...
Grahame writes:
'I got on better than expected even
with catching "man flu" during the last couple of days before the
challenge.
It was lucky that on Saturday it was misty & cool
during the 6 mile 2053 ft ascent as even in those conditions the
sweat was running out my eyebrows. All I remember of the climb was
being in a "dream like" state only able to see 10 yards in front and
seeing the road disappearing into the misty sky.
That could've
been the 2 Sinutabs I took earlier.
Took 45mins for the climb
which was fairly good considering I had no "granny" 3rd chain wheel
like a lot of the other participants.
On reaching the top we were
advised when passing the marshals that there had been 2 crashes
already so I decided to follow a female down so far till the mist
cleared.
The rest of the route was constantly undulating &
probably underestimated by first timers like me.
Overall I took
3:06 which was 1 minute faster than my trainer & unfortunately I
beat him on the climb as well. I bet he's regretting selling me his
old bike!'
Well done
Grahame!
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Congratulations
to David Blane who ran the Dunecht 5k earlier in the month,
finishing in 18.00 mins exactly and a 4th place.
David also
did the Longside 10k this last weekend, finishing 8th overall in a
time of 38:07.
Well done!
What's
Up This Week
Tuesday Evening... Club Run at Davidson
Park, Port Elphinstone, Inverrie. Meet at the ususal time of 6.30pm
in the car park by the football pitch. More information on the
running route & directions to the meeting point are available here. Thursday
Evening... New Insch run from Carriages pub at the railway
station. Its a wee bit hilly as we head cross- country over the hill
of Overhall to the lower path on Bennachie, before heading back via
Premnay Meeting time of 6.30pm in the car park. More
information on the running route & directions to the meeting
point are available here. Saturday
24th Club run from Esson's car park, Bennachie. Meet at
8.00am for an off-road run on our favourite hill. Despite the
lousy weather last weekend, its still a great way to set you up for
the rest of the weekend..... Sunday 25th Its that time of
year again when the club decends en-mass on the beach bouevard at
Aberdeen for the Baker Hughes 10k. Race starts at
9.30. Have a great week. Run Long and
Taper. The GariochRR team. |
Blog
from Rab the Nite Runner and now Mountain Runner
Great news, on Friday 9th of May, I finally
completed a burning ambition, the KNOYDART SUPERRIDGE, 26miles,
14,000foa, 7 munros. Done in the first attempt, COMPLETEY anaided,
solo attempt. No one has ever recorded this feat in one day, these
mountains are the most remote and diffulcult ones to climb in
scotland, and the time:
13hs 25mins 15 sec
I was wearing
my GRR running vest through out, I am now ready to contact scottish
hill runners to get my feat in the long distance records,so even
someone betters my time , I will be the first.
Day 1: I had
to walk 5 miles to the start line, Kinbreack bothy, very remote
place and the path is had to find, well at least the place was
empty, I had to abandon my sleeping bag and mat, there was no way i
would take that stuff the next day.
Day 2: up at 0430 tea
with 4 sugars over the bothy fire and a muller rice, then off at
5.30am , lovely clear day , but after munro 4 (11am) the heat was
really getting to me and knowing that I had a 3,100ft steady climb
to no 5, but the clould blotted out the sun and few spots of rain,
lady luck shinned down on me, the last munro, Ladhar bheinn, was
hell on earth, the was some serious scrambling on the ridge , and I
was done to my last gell, i had used 10 allready, but i mananged to
get thru it and on to the top . By this time I was starting to
hallusinate, and feelin really sick , so made to the top 12 hrs
22mins since the start line, I had to get to the bottom and the
track to Inverie, my good friend Rodger was waiting with his
landrover , so the clocked when I crossed the falloch river, I was
done in !!!!!!!!!!!
Day 3: I managed to get a boat to
mallaig, but missed the 10 am train , the next one was 4 pm, so I
hitched a lift, to glenfinnan AND a 9 mile walk back to my car and
another 1500 foa, more rough paths, in order to get back to my car
in good time, I started running down the glen, got to the car at 7pm
and didnt get home to midnight, well thats that I reckon what I done
was equal to running 3 marathons back to back, next challenge. Well
the west highland way race, 95 mlies, 11,ooo foa, next year, that it
i need a good shrink!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rab the mountain
runner
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