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HI-Vis clothing MUST be worn on club nights even while running in the town Carol Stewart now has hi-viz bibs for sale, please contact her on a Thursday night for more details.
Elgin X-Country This Saturday saw 4 NRR's making the journey through to Elgin for the penultimate race in the North District X-Country Series. Perfect weather conditions, a fun woodland course and great organisation by MRR made for a great run out for those who made it through. Whilst our women's team were present in full, prior engagements amongst our male runners meant that Dave Webster was once again our sole representative for the men. (He did us proud though!)Elgin results: (Women's race)13) Jenny Henderson 30:32, 24) Maureen Mackie 33:57, 31) Jenny Saunders 36:37(Men's race)46) Dave Webster 48:13
Evanton X-Country An exciting new course combined with acres and acres of ankle-deep mud made for a challenging run in the woods at Evanton. It was fantastic to see Nairn (combined with NAAAC) manage to field 2 women's teams and a men's team, with first timers Iain Blackburn and Jamie Maclaren both producing good strong performances for our men's team. Dave Webster made a good recovery from a mid-race fall in the slippery conditions, finishing with both his shoes unlike some other unlucky runners!Evanton results:(Women's race)12) Jenny Henderson 35:41, 25) Maureen Mackie 42:04, 26) Jenny Saunders 42:41(Men's race)27) Iain Blackburn 47:03, 31) Jamie Maclaren 48:52, 45) Dave Webster 56:53
NEW BEGINNERS GROUPS STARTS 12/01/12, 7:30PM FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTRE
As the nights are fair drawing in, the club would like to remind everyone that they MUST run with some sort of Hi-Viz. Be seen and be safe .
Lossiemouth 10 mile turkey trot.
What a great day this year's Lossiemouth 10 Mile Turkey Trot turned out to be, with the wintry weather earlier in the week giving way to fine running conditions enjoyed by the 154 runners who made it to the start line. The race also incorporated the North District 10 Mile Championships and there were some excellent performances. The race was won by Forres Harriers' Gordon Lennox (56.41) with team mate, Paul Rogan (57.08), in 2nd place. The RAF Junior X-Country Champion, William Jackson (58.15), finished 3rd, closely followed by Dan Leedham in 58.28. The ladies' race saw Melissa Whyte continue to dominate, producing a fine run to finish 5th overall in a time of 59.16, with Vivienne Bruce (Metro Aberdeen, 64.09) and Sarah Leibnitz from Inverness Harriers (65.27) finishing 2nd and 3rd. 1st Vet was Oonagh Wilson (4th, 65.35) who also picked up silver in the North District 10 Mile Veteran Race. Ably assisted by Louise Cartmell in her first 10 Mile race (66.47) and Sarah Houston (73.41),
A fine number of club runners took place in today's event. The weather had eased and the days conditions were near perfect with very little wind and a balmy temp of 8c. Stuart Thompson was the first NRR home.
Stuart Thompson 62:34,Jamie McLaren71:22,Chris Rankin 73:29,Dave Webster 73:36,Jenny Bryce 78:23,Morag Macleod 83:02,Debbie Halliday 95:30 and Linda Taylor 99:00
Only 2 of our club members made the short journey along the A96 last weekend to take part in the North District Cross Country championships that were held in Forres. Jenny Henderson 34:11 and Dave Webster 51:52 , both runners entered under the banner of NAAAC due to the current ongoing "wrangle" involving our club colours etc. Well done both and hopefully you will be joined by a few more "NAIRN" folk next time out.
Knockfarrel Hill race
Many thanks to Jenny Henderson for the following report - Stuart and I drove to Strathpeffer for the Knockfarrel Hill Race, perfectly organised by Highland Hill Runners. I was pleased to see that along with Ryan and Becky we had managed to field 4 runners for this one, a good turn out in a hill race for our club! The weather was perfect for hill running; dry, windless and surprisingly warm for November. Most of the runners were wearing shorts and singlets due to the weather, but I couldn't help noticing the number of runners who seemed to be wearing gloves. They clearly new something we didn't!The race starts on the disused railway line heading out of Strathpeffer and we were straight into ankle deep mud and filth. We ploughed through this for a bit before turning sharply upwards into a field of shin-deep squelchy mud and cowpats, with runners spreading out as everyone tried to take the best line through the field without losing their shoes. Turning up a long steep path between two fields, the pace dropped before picking up again at the top to contour the side of the hill. We then arrived at the bottom of what can only be described as a vertical 'ladder' up to Knockfarrel's summit. Hand-over-fist, using vegetation to pull myself up, I was for some reason reminded of Gordie telling me a couple of years back that "no hill race is steeper than hill 2 at Clava". Gordie - a word! After this it was a straight-forward and pleasant run along the ridge towards Cnoc Mor, with stunning views down into the valley. For some reason I thought the climbing was over, and duly picked up speed safe in the (misguided) knowledge that I'm better at descending. And descend we did. Down and down it went on a tiny, narrow, overgrown path. I was flying along, really enjoying myself, when I suddenly thought "hang on, I haven't passed the summit of Cnoc Mor yet". All that coming down could only mean one thing: another steep climb up. With a sick feeling in my stomach I rounded a corner to be met with...... yep, another steep climb up. I used the heather flanking the path to pull myself up, and was already half-way before I realised my hands were full of tiny brown spikes. There was obviously dead gorse mixed in with the heather, and yes, gloves would have been mighty handy! Once off the top of Cnoc Mor the route took a steep descent through trees which would've been quite pleasant if we were taking our time, but was quite frankly terrifying when run at full speed. From there a good track took us back to the top of the fields to run the cowpat gauntlet again, before finishing back at the old station.Picking the tiny brown spikes out of my hands at the finish, with my legs a muddy scratched mess and the distinct whiff of 'eau de cowpat' in my hair, you can imagine how delighted I was to be met by a relatively clean looking Stuart, who didn't know what I was talking about because he never used his hands once. Stuart, I salute you.
Times :- Stuart Thomson 49:34, Ryan Mackenzie 56:21, Jenny Henderson 62:09 and Becki Munro 73:05
Baxters 10k and Marathon photos now on pic site click HERE
New York Marathon
Well done to Chris Rankin and Alan Dallas who both took part in last Sunday's New York Marathon. Chris broke the 4hr mark with 3:58 and Alan came in not long behind him in 4:12
Baxters Marathon and 10k
Well done to all the members that took part in the Loch Ness Maratthon and 10k at the weekend,
In the Marathon Dave Webster clocked 3:40:29 and Alan Dallas 3:48:38, in the 10k many congrats go to Shirley Hay for winning her category in a time of 53:14, again Peter Widlof clocked a fantastic time, this week it was 36:54 and Jim Graham came home in 49:25.
Marathon - Dave Webster 3:40:29, Alan Dallas 3:48:38 and Kym Bridle 5:04:30
10k - Peter Widlof 36:54, Andy Hodge 41:28, Jim Graham 49:25, Andy Green 52:07, Jenny Saunders 52:17, Shirley Hay 53:14, Fiona Craig 53:55, Magaret Smith 57:48, Nicola Williamson 65:12 and Susan Smith 68:35
