On Saturday 21st June I competed in the Highland Cross, a 50 mile duathlon with a rugged 20 mile hill run through Glen Affric followed by a 30mile bike race, completing it in 4h45m58 finishing behind Louise Cartmell in 4h43m12. Louise was 131rd and I was 144th out of 715 finishers. I was first super […]
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Our very own MRR Dionne Milne smashed a Scottish Schools record that had stood for 25 years at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games venue. Dionne was crowned Scottish Schools under – 17 Champion last weekend at Hampden Park. In her last throw Dionne launched the discus for 44.09 metres. The previous record, set by Alison
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On Sunday 3 MRRs took part in this Duathlon, Kenny Wilson, Ed Dunbar, Tish Richford as indivisuals and Barbara Bowie was entered as a team with Lyn Cowie. Here is a report of my experience of this event. My brother in law, David, was already signed up and has been pestering me to register for
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This was the final race in this Forest Run Series. Roseisle is a really good run and it feels fast. There was a good showing of MRRs, and the men were led home by Kenny Wilson who also won this race. The times are as follows: Men Kenny Wilson: 23:10 Paul Taylor: 25:45 Simon
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The West Highland way race starts in Milngavie (Glasgow) and finishing in Fort William 95 miles later with 14000ft of ascent. This was my 2nd start at this race after completing it last year so I knew what was ahead. Training for this race started at the begining of the year building up the miles
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This year saw a change to the normal mix of on and off road cycling to fully on the road. It was also taken over and run by Moray Firth Triathlon Club for the first time. Although very wet in Elgin before the event started it held off in Forres until later on in the
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