November Newsletter
Kinross Road Runners
Autumn mean the start of the cross country season and Stephen Little ran in his first cross country race at Scone Palace on 15th October to raise funds for charity. Stephen completed the 10K course in 46:16 which is 8 mins faster than his previous 10K time. Stephen has £200 for charity this year through sponsorship for this race and Loch Leven Half Marathon.
Kate Ives ran the gruelling Pentland Skyline race on 8th October as training for the Karrimor Mountain Marathon. The 16 mile race over the Pentland Hills involves 6200ft of climbing and Kate ran well to finish 98th overall and 8th lady in 3:44:23. Kate went on to finish 17th overall and 1st mixed pair in the C class at the Karrimor Mountain Marathon with her adventure racing partner Edward Stronach. They completed the two day event with a combined time of 8:06:33.
Three Kinross Road Runners entered the penultimate club championship race, Templeton Woods, on 5 November . This 10mile race on the outskirts of Dundee provides great views but contains some tough climbs so it not a good course for recording fast times. Judith Dobson was 94th and 1st supervet in 74:53, Isabella Carmichael was 167th and 3rd supervet in 83:29 and John Myerscough completed the course in 89:55 to finish in 200th place.
Six people travelled to Glen Clova on 13th November to run the popular Half Marathon which circumnavigates the valley, starting and finishing at the Glen Clova hotel . Chris Pratt was first Kinross Road Runner and 79th overall in 97:05 followed by coach Roger Stark in his first race of the year in 105:59. John Mysercough and Geoff Bilton both improved their Half Marathon times to finish in 111:30 and 113:11 respectively. Isabella Carmichael was running on tired legs after Templeton Woods the previous week so ran a relatively slow time of 114:19 followed by hill running specialist, Sandy MacCalman, in 144:16.
Kinross Road runners welcome runners of all ages and abilities. We meet at 7pm, Wednesday night at Lathro Health Centre car park. The training schedule is on the club notice board in the Leisure Centre and on the club web site (www.kinrossroadrunners.co.uk).
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