Lochaber - 14mile mixed terrain Race

Result:
01:17:05 Robbie Simpson
01:17:06 Paul Raistrick


Saturday 13th March 2010

Due to snow & ice scheduled "Larig Mhor" race was re-routed through 13.6miles of mixed terrain, North of Fort William.

Full results: www.lochaberac.co.uk

This was to be the furthest I have run off snow since mid December 2009, so I was looking for a fast run. Robbie Simpson (SaabSalomon) had also come over from snowbound East and ensured it was. I lead for the first 12miles but 2 miles from the end Robbie was back on my heals. A final 100m sprint for the line saw Robbie finish a couple of meters ahead in 77:05. I was most impressed by the way he came back from mid race, real mental and physical strength from such a young athlete.

Training in the Cairngorms and Norway has been tough and dark (respectively) for the last 3 months. Training with Jethro during his ski visits North in December and February helped me stay focussed on running as opposed to shovelling snow. Thanks.

Fortunately with a firmer snowpack over the last 10 days I have been able to add a high level training run round the Northern Corries most days. This is what makes winter running special.

But just as the snow is becoming runnable in the forests of StrathSpey I head back to work in Haugesund and the snow.

As we will be running on high level snow into the late Summer of 2010 in Scotland those tungsten studded ORocs cannot come out soon enough.