Great speed session last night at Cnoc Dubh night race at Cambus O'May! This is the first in a series of 4 winter night races organised by my club Deeside Runners. The races are in date order Cnoc Dubh, Knockargety, Dess woods and Potarch Hill.
Cnoc Dubh starts at the Riverside Cottage Cafe on the North Deeside at Cambus O'May between Dinnet and Ballater. A great start and finish to a race serving coffee, cake, soup, toasties, even meals if you wanted! Oh and ice cream - Thanks Rickie Badboy Ingram for my post race cone! ;)
This short hill race is 7.5km/200m so just a wee bump but it is brilliant and very fast running with some interesting ground including landy track, tree routed forest trails, bog, long grass and heather. And of course pitch black apart from your head torch!
I have only ever done Cnoc Dubh once before in 2015 and finished 10th overall, 2nd M40 in 40:21 which I was fairly pleased with at the time so I was chuffed to blitz that time this year finishing 4th overall, 1st/2nd M40 in 32:47! I say 1st/2nd because the winner Dan Whitehead is also M40 but I got a prize for 1st M40 outwith the podium.
Anyway I was very pleased to be only 1:16 behind the winner and only 2 seconds behind 3rd place Calum Dempster who put up a really good fight with me most of the way round the course. We swapped leads a couple of times and were never really more than a few meters apart the whole race but he just crept ahead on the last section of landy track to take 3rd, well done to him!
Podium-
Dan Whitehead 31:31
Peter Henry 32:23
Calum Dempster 32:45
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| Myself, Gary Thompson (GRR) and the one and only bad boy Richie Ingram! |
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