Personal Details
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East Kilbride
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Occupation |
Solicitor
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Website |
Home Page
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Career Highlights
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3 Scottish Hill Racing Team Championship medals with Shettleston Harriers; Glasgow Marathon 1987 - 2h 53m; getting under 1h 20m for the Half Marathon; 9min 40 sec 3000m track race; almost, but not quite, getting under 36min for a 10K; first KIMM in 1990 with Peter Baxter; one and only Elite KIMM finish in 2000 with Gordon Pryde; 1st team prize with Westies at Two Breweries; beating Angela Mudge in the 1996 Peris Horseshoe Fell Race (sorry Angela!); getting under 37 min at Tinto in 1995; 2h 35m at Stuc a Chroin in 1997; 2h 57m at Pentlands Skyline in 1994; a highlight AND lowpoint - almost finishing the West Highland Way Race in 2000 (got to Lundavra, 85 miles, in 21 hrs and dropped out); 4hr 14min Isle of Jura Hill Race in 1997 with a knackered shoe; 59min at Carnethy Hill Race in 1999; finishing the 2005 Defi de l' Oisans 6 day Mountain Race; 1hr 56min Ben Nevis Race in 1997; doing all the Lakeland Classic Fell Races in the hot summer of 2006; High Peaks Ultra Marathon; sub 8hrs for the Fred Whitton 110 mile Cycle Race in the lakes;
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Favourite Races
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Every Scottish Islands Peaks Race; any Westies Handicap Race; Defi D le Oisans; Two Breweries; lots - Glasgow Marathon; Iceland Ultramarathon Trail Race; Carnethy Hill Race; Borrowdale Fell Race; Devil's Burdens Hill Relays; Glamaig Hill Race; Maddy Moss Hill Race; Kilpatricks Hill Race; Stuc a' Chroin Hill Race; first few Speyside Way 50K Trail Races (after the first few they just got harder and slower!); Wuthering Hike Trail Race in Yorkshire; Tinto Hill Race; Pentlands Skyline Hill Race; the LAMM on Jura in 1997 in a heatwave; any Westies Weekend Away (not a race but who cares); Manny Gorman's late lamented Twelve Trig Trog two day race round the Campsies; Lomond Hillrunners' Pub Runs;
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Most Memorable Race
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Scottish Islands Peaks Race - sailing and hillrunning off the West Coast of Scotland - it doesn't get any better.
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Other Interests
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Hillwalking - completed Munros round, now working on the Corbetts;
road cycling - enjoy Audax 100k and 200k events;
Glasgow curries; real ales; Celtic Connections music festival;
TV- Scrubs, Green Wing, Northern Exposure, Malcolm in the Middle,
Tom Morton's radio show on Radio Scotland;
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Races
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All Years
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Races recorded:
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141 races
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Ranking:
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141.1%
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