Topie: Black Rock Nightmare Rcae RESULTS Wed. 7th Nov.

November 7th, 2007 05:11 PM Graham Bennison Chris Russell (Fife AC) had a good evening at Black Rock winning the second race in the Nightmare Series across Pettycurr Beach, Kinghorn. Russell, second at the opening fixture last month, pulled away from club colleague Paul Roarty following the one mile mark as the field of runners battled against strong head winds into the Forth Estuary. Russell was ten metres ahead at the Black Rock turning point extending his advantage to fifteen seconds over the return journey to complete the 2.8 miles in 16 minutes 09 seconds with Roarty timed at 16.24. Brian Cruickshank completed the Fife first three line-up following in 3rd, first veteran another seven seconds adrift. Louise Provan (Fife AC) scored her second win in the series placing 25th overall in 19 minutes 47 seconds holding off the challenge of Caroline Cox (St Andrew’s Univ.) by one place and five seconds. Results: 1 C Russell (Fife AC) 16.09, 2 P Roarty (Fife AC) 16.24, 3 B Cruickshank (Fife AC) 1st veteran. 16.31, 4 D Burgess (Anster Haddies) 16.53, 5 n Mratin (Fife AC) 2nd veteran. 16.55, 6 B Smith (Fife AC) 17.02, 7 N Graham (St Andrew’s Univ.) 17.42, 8 R Hall (St Andrew’s Univ.) 17.49, 9 J McPherson (Hunters bog Trotters) 17.57, 10 A Gnanapragesam (St Andrew’s Univ.) 17.59, 11 I Normand (HBT) 3rd veteran. 18.03, 12 R Summers (Beacon R.) 18.07, 13 L Anderson (Fife AC) 4th veteran. 18.10, 14 C Martin (St Andrew’s Univ.) 18.13, 15 D Straathoff (St Andrew’s Univ.) 18.18, 16 R Harker (St A's) 18.24, 17 S Shanks (Fife AC) 18.26, 18 K Berry (Fife aC vet) 18.31, 19 R Moreland Anst.H.) 18.42, 20 J Rilley (St A's) 19.06, 21 C Rochette (St A's) 19.16, 22 P Gallagher (Fife vet) 19.33, 23 D Shepherd (Fife vet) 19.39, 24 D Robertson (Fife vet) 19.44, 25 Louise Provan (Fife AC) 19.47, 26 Caroline Cox (St A's) 19.52, 27 P Mallett (Lomond HR vet) 19.57, 28 Johanna Paanenen (Fife vet) 20.21, 29 A Duncan (St A's) 20.31, 30 H Gordon (Unatt. Vet) 20.34, 31 P Lambie (Fife vet) 20.40, 32 E Barry (Fife AC) 1st junior. 21.02, 33 I Shield (Anster Haddies) 1st over 50. 21.05, 34 I Hill (Beacon vet) 21.13, 35 P Brown (Beacon) 21.19, 36 R Gatehouse (Lomond HR) 2nd over 50. 21.22, 37 Charlotte Firth (St A's) 21.30, 38 J Keenlyside (Fife AC) 3rd over 50. 21.33, 39 Maggie Spalding (HBT) 21.36, 40 Gardener Moore (St A's) 21.41, 41 Lucy Duff (Fife junior) 21.53, 42 Chrissie Borg (St A's) 22.02, 43 R Thomas (HBT V50.) 22.31, 44 Vikki Knott (St A's) 22.42, 45 Jennifer Cruickshanks (Anst. H. junior) 22.47, 46 J Winning (Beacon V50) 22.55, 47 Phyllis Mitchell (Corstorphine vet.) 23.04, 48 Amber Rankin (St A's) 23.17, 49 Dorothy McCracken (Fife vet) 23.21, 50 G Bennison (Fife V60) 24.31, 51 Tracey Chalmers (Anst.H) 25.40, 52 Samantha Higgins (Wormit Witches) 25.50, 53 May Philip (Unatt. V45) 26.00, 54 Adele Osborne (Beacon vet.) 26.15, 55 TRicia Whitelaw (Beacon vet) 26.15, 56 Alisa Johnson (HBT vet) 26.29, 57 Pamela Cruickshanks (Anst.H. vet) 27.112, 58 Karen Shepherd (Anst.H.) 27.12, 59 Fiona Cruickshanks (Anst.H junior) 27.29, 60 Mragaret Ingledew (Fife AC vet) 28.09. November 8th, 2007 12:43 PM Twiggy Well I 'tried' to get away on the way out 3 times but the headwinds got the better of me on all occasions and it was infact Brian who towed us all up to the rock. Brian, Paul and me all headed back downwind side by side until I pushed on with 1 mile to go. Paul gave chase but I'd thankfully pulled out a wee gap by the prom and didnt have to contest a sprint finish with him. Thanks to Frank, Margaret, Gary, Graham, the marshals and timekeepers and ofcourse the Coastguard for putting on the very marvellous race. :eek: (Edited by Twiggy) November 8th, 2007 04:12 PM paul roarty Ye, well done Chris and well done to all the time keepers, coastguards and marshals for a well organised race. :clap: :cool: November 8th, 2007 04:18 PM JohnMac Aye, well done indeed to Mr Twigg and big thanks to the small band of heavily clad helpers. Great race on a very dark and windy night - top work... Cheers John November 8th, 2007 06:59 PM Twiggy Any post race comments on the women's race? It looked pretty damned close judging by the results. :clap: November 8th, 2007 07:01 PM Twiggy Could everybody who entered the 'Blacker than Black Rock', and are hoping to enter some more of the series, please keep their numbers and use them for the rest of the events. Ta. :cool: November 9th, 2007 08:27 AM twiglet princess of darkness Special request - would be great if there was a chance of a return to the lomond hills for a nightmare race in this series, or even having one of them over the normans law route or similar - (Of course the race route won't be marked - which would be very amusing!) Go on.... you know you want too.... :cool: November 9th, 2007 06:51 PM Twiggy My goodness I didnt realise I was having 'relations' within the throng. Ahem anyway moving on - it may be of interest to you Princess that the next one will actually be a hill race - of sorts. More details to follow. :eek: