Jacob Tangey travelled over to Tromsø in Norway to take part in the 23rd Midnight Sun Marathon on Saturday June 30th. At almost 70 degrees north, you can run in broad daylight in the middle of the night...

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On Sunday, Norman Neilson continued his foray into the world of multi discipline events when he took part in his first Half Ironman, the 'Day in the Lakes Middle Distance Triathlon'...

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On Sunday June 24th, David Burns and Mark Johnston travelled to Lancashire for the Sotos 10k, a run held in aid of the Emily May fund..

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Conditions for this years’ West Highland Way race were described as ‘horrendous’, with torrential rain right from the start making the going very difficult for competitors and support crews alike. Parts of the trail were described as being more akin to a stream rather than the familiar 95 miles of well used walkers’ path. Of the 172 who lined up at Milngavie for the 01:00am start there were 119 who crossed the finish line at Fort William with 8 people having had enough by the 1st checkpoint!....

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Jo Zakrzewski was more than a little apprehensive as to whether she would have any speed left in her legs after running Comrades less than two weeks ago, but headed off down to the Lake District this weekend to take up the invite to race in a Scottish vest for the first time since declaring for Scotland. The event was the Home Countries International, and was being run as part of the Karrimor Great Trail Challenge in Keswick...

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Sunday saw the inaugural running of the Dalbeattie 10K and Half Marathon. There are often teething problems with new events, from which lessons can be learnt for the next year, but unfortunately the weather is a variable beyond the control of any race organiser. The heavy rains and hence risk of flooding meant that there had to be a last minute change to the morning's 10K course, which seemed to be generally approved of by most participants as the route then became a straight out and back avoiding the promised hill, though unfortunately it meant that the course was no longer an accurately measured 10K. Luckily the afternoon's half-marathon route was not affected, and so remained a lovely scenic course.

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The Durisdeer course is recorded as 16km with 1150m of climb, although competitors with GPS report that it measures slightly shorter. There are 3 main phases of the course: the first 2km sees a rapid 350m ascent of Black Hill, with the course then dropping steeply down to a road and river crossing at about the starting level. The next 5km loops round the back of Steygail, with 2 ascents of 120m and 230m over passes along the way. The final 6km starts with a 370m climb to Well Hill, followed by an undulating ridge run to Black Hill before descending to the finish along the route of the initial climb.

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Conditions on the forest trails were good for the 16 Club members who were amongst the 80 finishers of this year's Mabie Trail race…

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The latest event in the Grand Prix series was the Grasmere Gallop 10K trail race and 12 Club members made the trip to the Lake District on Saturday to take part….  

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  On Thursday evening, the half way point of the 2012 Handicap Series was reached when the 6th round was held on the out and back route along the Holywood road…  

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On Wednesday, Les Hill, John Green and Mark Johnston took advantage of a slight improvement in the weather and headed south to take part in the Carlisle Tri 10K ….  

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On Sunday in South Africa, Jo Zakrzewski delivered a fantastic performance in the Comrades marathon to finish in 4th place and win one of the coveted gold medals. Craig Malcolmson also made the trip to complete his second Comrades and secure a medal for back to back runs…..

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Conditions were considerably better for the Stranraer Half marathon than the high temperatures experienced by those running last weekend….  

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