GIBLIN MAKES IT 3 IN A ROW AND IMPROVES HIS OWN RECORD FOR THE 3RD TIME For the third year running, Paul Giblin has won the 95mile West Highland Way trail race, and for the third year running, has bettered the course record. 187 runners set off at 1am on Saturday morning (20th June), the […]
Pre race, a lot of talk was of whether Rosie Bell, in her 10th running of this race could achieve her third win. In the ladies race Glasgow based American Jamie Aarons, was an early leader reaching the Balmaha checkpoint in 2hours 58minutes almost 8 minutes ahead of Lorna Macmillan. Rosie Bell (Strathaven), twice a
West Highland Way Ladies race report 2014 While the men were blitzing a path to a record and the second best time recorded on the course, the ladies were also rising the bar in their own way. Rosie Bell, came into the race with 8 previous finishes and over the years since her first run
Giblin shatters his own course record at the 2014 West highland way race In what can only be described as a phenomenal display of sustained endurance running, Scottish 100km champion Paul Giblin,shattered his own record for the 95 mile West Highland Way race at the weekend (June 21st.) Though he didn’t have things all his
In Podcast 57 Dave Troman and I (john Kynaston) discussed whether to ‘race’ the Fling in preparation for running the West Highland Way Race or to treat the Fling as a good long training run. People have different ideas and obviously there is no ‘right’ answer. One of the other things we discussed was whether
We had a great turn out for our training weekend. There were over 70 who ran from Balmaha. Some went all the way to Inversnaid and back while others turned back at various points. I wrote a report on my blog ….. http://johnkynaston.com/2014/02/02/west-highland-way-training-weekend-run/ Plus I made a short video of the run … [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWgsgGkAhY?feature=player_detailpage]
