A brilliant day for the runners who started off on Saturday morning at 1am from Milngavie railway station on their way to their destination in Fort William 95miles from their starting point! Awesome!
I was supporting Wee Richie Cunningham who had a great race smashing his Personal Best by nearly half an hour in 18 hrs. Carnegie Harriers had a great showing of 4 woman and wee Richie. Gail Murdoch who was doing the race for the first time she had a fantastic run and probably the best time that any woman has ever done on the WHW on their first attempt so bloody well done to her!
Lynne Kuz again smashed her PB and again was 2nd Woman, in a finishing time of 20 hrs and 39 mins, unbelievable what a woman!
The two sisters Fiona Rennie and Pauline Walker also ran well with Pauline overtaking Gail around Kinlochleven with 15 mins between them finishing time 22hours. Fiona battled hard through the darkness and heavy rain with 27 hours of running coming into Fort William in the wee small hours of sunday morning drenched and exhilarated with her support crew Peter Humphries and Val Macauly.
Details of the race and results are on: http://www.westhighlandwayrace.org/
Details of Carnegie Harriers: http://www.carnegie-harriers.co.uk/
Photos shall be uploaded in the next few days on Flicker from this site
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This post was written by Tommy on June 26, 2008