The Ben Venue hill race was the sixth and final race in the Scottish Hill Racing Championship, and Will was racing for a top ten position in the championship table. Ben Venue's quite a cute hill, but some of the terrain at the top is pretty tough going. We had a hardy group of four runners travelling from Crieff - Will, Gordon, Andy and Rhian - and they were joined by Doug, going awol from a stag-do somewhere nearby.
The weather was pretty miserable, but a good time was apparently had by all. Will finished tenth, in a time of 1:20:21 to cover the 12 kilometres distance and 860 metres of ascent from the bottom of Ben Venue, up to the top and down again. A bit further down the filed were Andy (79th in 1:36:13), Doug (112th in 1:43:25), Gordon (127th in 1:46:13) and Rhian (16th woman, in a time of 1:48:06).
Will’s finish gave him sufficient points to finish 7th overall in the SHR Championship, and 3rd in the V40 category. Last year Will finished 10th overall, so the Ben Venue result rounded off a very successful season in great style.
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