Tinto Hill Race

SAT 13 NOVEMBER
Only a few Westies wandered up into deepest Lanarkshire for this classic that rounds off the hill racing season. The weather was fine, if a bit windy, and fortunately the snow that covered Tinto the following day was absent on Sat. About 260 runners hared off along the narrow muddy track as I tried to not get left too far behind. My heart rate had zoomed up immediately to about 85% max and stayed there for the whole race. I mixed power walking with slow running and hit the summit cairn in just under 30mins. The descent is a classic, not too steep and decent enough grip. I lost a few places to some demon descenders, but also passed a few, including fellow Westie Alasdair Duke. I crossed the line in a shade over 43mins, only a minute down on my 2008 time, so taking into account the ravages of father time on my weary body, I was pretty pleased. I scraped into the top third of the field with 87th place of 264 finishers. Alan Gilkison led Westies home. My sixteenth (and slowest, PB= 36m 35s 1995) race here and hopefully I'll be back for many more. Thanks to Cameron Scott and his team of Carnethy organisers for a fine day out.

Race on Garmin


1 Jethro Lennox Shettleston 00:32:01
2 Alasdair Anthony Ochil HR 00:32:43
3 Matthew Sullivan Shettleston 00:33:07
11 Angela Mudge Carnethy FV40 00:35:38


33 Alan Gilkison Westerlands CCC MV40 00:38:33
87 John Donnelly Westerlands CCC MV40 00:43:05
103 Alasdair Duke Westerlands CCC M 00:43:55
112 Brian Brennan Westerlands CCC MV50 00:44:23
162 John Quinn Westerlands CCC MV50 00:47:37
176 Pauline McAdam Westerlands CCC 00:48:37
209 Paula Cowan Westerlands CCC FV40 00:51:06
254 Patricia McLaughlin Westerlands 01:01:11