Dragons Back Race 2022 - Photo Diary
Dragons Back Race 2022 Full race report to follow but pictures from the race on For more updates follow on twitter @ameldrum7
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2021 Top 11 Races (runs!)
A bit of a stretch this year but my Top 10 races (runs) for 2021!! Just remembered another one so it is now a top 11!! 1st - 1st Aug to 8th Aug- Cape Wrath Ultra 8day stage race 2nd - 4th March 2021 – a virtual 3hr marathon! 3rd - 29th May 2021- Ben Nevis / WHW Challenger race 4th - 22nd January 2021 – Turf – all the green dots! 5th - 19 September 2021 Ben Nevis Ultra 6th - Support runner for Anna Rutherford successful SUW FKT Record 7th - 2 July 2021 – Galloway hills training run 8th - 12 September 2021 - Kilmacolm half marathon 9th - 3 October 2021 Jersey marathon 10th - 12th June 2021 – Durisdeer Hill race 11th - 18 December 2021 Cairnsmore of Fleet hill race!! A few details, some pictures and links to blogs below in date order! 22nd January 2021 - Turf With us all in lock down again the options were a bit limited for training. To break up some of the boredom I started playing turf ! You take your p...
Salomon Ben Nevis Ultra – always learning!! 19th Sep 2021
I find these blogs a good way to reflect on what worked, what went wrong and what could be improved, so they are written as much for me as anyone else!! Sometimes they are written in draft and then I take weeks or months to get round to adding the photos and publishing. Salomon Ben Nevis Ultra was booked last year as an event which might go ahead in 2020, but like many others sadly got cancelled. I don’t think I even read the briefing last year, just it was a 32mile race starting at Kinlochleven which took in Ben Nevis! The inevitable happened and it was shifted to this year, just 6 weeks after Cape Wrath . I had already decided that if I was not recovered I would not run, but I felt like I had recovered pretty well so convinced myself to run and “enjoy a day in the hills”! The harsh reality was somewhat different!! A few weeks before I finally got round to reading the brief and realised there were some scrambling and exposed sections. As a self confessed ...