2018 31 Mar Murdo said: Excellent and well organised event. Cold with a strong headwind, particulary in the first half meant it was a hard run for those runners, second half was better if muddy. Congratulations to the full-distance runners; Gita, Phil, Mike and …
Read More »Arctic Trek – Finland – Feb 2018
2018 11 Feb Something a bit different from the normal race reports. Here’s Isla’s report of her Arctic Trek in Finland Isla said: Back in July last year I decided to sign up for an Arctic Trek, to be honest I wasn’t really sure what …
Read More »Portobello Promathon 4 Mile Road Race 2018
2018 01 Jan Sheila said: Lots of ERNies celebrated the first day of the new year by running in the annual four mile Promathon race in Portobello – with several hardy souls doing a double header having already run Porty parkrun shortly beforehand. The rest …
Read More »CRUK Tough 10 Edinburgh 2017 – 5 Nov
2017 05 Nov Colin said: When someone organises a race that starts 5 minutes from your front door you’ve got to sign up. Also when that race lays out a challenge by calling itself the ‘Tough 10’, that challenge has to be met square on. …
Read More »The 8th Annual LP Run – 2017 – 20 August
2017 20 Aug The 8th Annual LP Run opened on Entry Central with the following tempting details and sold out in record time (before the end of May!). Like running? Like good tunes? Like eating cake? If you said yes to any of these, then the …
Read More »West Highland Way 2017 – 24 June
2017 24 Jun Jo said: This is the story of the journey that ended up with me running a 95 mile race in the Scottish Highlands – or – The Amazing Adventures of Baxter-The-Ultra-Dog. I’m sitting here trying to work out where to start telling …
Read More »Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2017 – 27/28 May
2017 28 May 1 = First race over the distance. PB = Personal best time over the distance. Huge congratulations to John Edmond for completing all four races, three of which while wearing a dog suit. Sheila said: Yesterday I ran my first half marathon …
Read More »Dragon’s Back Race 2017 – 22-27 May
2017 22 May The Berghaus Dragon’s Back Race (315Km 248 Miles, 5 Days) Monday 22 May – Friday 27 May 2017 By Phil Humphries What is the Dragon’s Back Race? From the race website (http://www.berghausdragonsbackrace.com): “The legendary Berghaus Dragon’s Back Race™ follows the mountainous spine …
Read More »Stirling Marathon 2017 – 21 May
2017 21 May Murdo said: Hi all, I took my camera round Stirling marathon, you may want to consider this new event for next year, I really enjoyed it. I took some photos of the route that may be of interest, apologies for the repetition. …
Read More »Penicuik 10k – 2017
2017 14 May Ann said: Penicuik is fairly close by and an afternoon race, so one you can be leisurely about getting ready for. I picked up Matt, Ellie and Wendy on my way and we arrived with plenty of time to park up, register, …
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