In Podcast 57 Dave Troman and I (john Kynaston) discussed whether to ‘race’ the Fling in preparation for running the West Highland Way Race or to treat the Fling as a good long training run. People have different ideas and obviously there is no ‘right’ answer. One of the other things we discussed was whether
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We had a great turn out for our training weekend. There were over 70 who ran from Balmaha. Some went all the way to Inversnaid and back while others turned back at various points. I wrote a report on my blog ….. http://johnkynaston.com/2014/02/02/west-highland-way-training-weekend-run/ Plus I made a short video of the run … [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWgsgGkAhY?feature=player_detailpage]
Report from West Highland Way Race Training Weekend Read More »
We have a good number of people staying at the Oak Tree at Balmaha for our training weekend. It is a very informal gathering with lots of opportunity to chat and learn from each other. On Saturday 1st February 2014 we will run from Balmaha to Inversnaid and back which is just over 30miles. A
Episode 52 In this episode we have three main items … Andy Cole discusses the setting of goals for the West Highland Way Race John Kynaston interviews Jeff Smith who looks after the runners on the Lairig Mor with his mountain rescue team John Kynaston interviews Fiona Rennie as she prepares to run her 10th
We are delighted to hear that the West Highland Way Race has been nominated for the Best Trail Race Award in The Running Awards 2014. There are just 7 days left until the list of nominees is reduced to a short-list of the top 12, based on the number of votes received. Winners will be
There are still a few rooms left for our training weekend at Balmaha. Here are the details pif you want to join us …. The West Highland Way training weekend will take place on Friday 31st January / Saturday 1st February 2014, based at the Oak Tree Inn, Balmaha. This will follow the same format of
The 2014 whw race entries were allocated on Monday 9th December 2013. Race Director Ian Beattie posted this explanation on our facebook page … We have now considered all of the entry applications for the 2014 West Highland Way Race. There were 305 applications in total. Of those, 4 withdrew from consideration prior to the
The entries for the 2014 whw race has now closed and successful runners will be notified shortly if they have a place. We received 305 entries as follows…. 51 females and 254 males. The oldest female is 60 and the youngest 29. The average age of females is 43.3 The oldest male is 73 and
The entries for the 2014 whw race have now been open for 9 days and so far we have 186 people who have sent in their apllication. Remember you have the whole of November to enter but I thought it would be interesting to get a feel of who has entered so far …. Of
