Highland Fling '21

A wee blogpost for those who may not have been aware of our Trail Race director's feat yesterday.

Very few have trained as normal over the past year with nearly all races having been postponed or cancelled, including (for ultra runners) the D33, the Fling and the West Highland Way race - our normal yearly progression. Not being one to dwell on the negative our Jim decided to run the Fling route as a training run and the early easing of travel restrictions allowed us to do so on the very day the race should have taken place. Under-trained and supported only by Ruth and I and team manager/friend Evelyn, he duly completed the 53 hilly miles in a mightily impressive 14 hours and 47 minutes. His slowest ever Fling time of course but in many ways also his best. Massive kudos to him for a tremendous effort while lacking both adequate training and race-day motivation amply demonstrating his depths of stubbornness and stupidity - bloody well done pal! Ruth and I were chuffed to have done a wee bit to help you along the way.