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Who Is This Guy? See pages 2-3 34 Scottish Athletics Permit Event GREATGREAT WILDERNESSWILDERNESS Organised locally in association with the following estates: th EILEAN DARACH GRUINARD CHALLENGECHALLENGE 20192019 LETTEREWE INVERAN INVEREWE RNESS DE A series of sponsored walks and races in the magnificent mountain hinterland of L C I H Poolewe, and Dundonnell, with a variety of routes to suit all levels of fitness W A

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P OOLEWE and feel free to contribute to the site! As a registered charity we are able to claim Gift Aid on all eligible donations. GWC Contacts All new entries, withdrawals, substitutions, etc. Please help us to increase our fundraising total by asking all of your sponsors PAT ROSS: 01445 731516 to sign the Gift Aid declaration where appropriate. e-mail: [email protected] Alternatively if you are a UK taxpayer and are making a personal donation Supported Charities this year include: rather than obtaining sponsorship we would urge you to complete our Single Donation Gift Aid form - available to download from our website or on HOSPICE, request by contacting Pat. Skye and Young Carers, MS Therapy, Debra, Children's Hospices Across , Scottish Ambulance Service, Aid & Mobility Support, Gairloch Community Car Scheme and several other healthcare charities in the Highlands.

EVENT MAY INCLUDE A VARIETY OF WEATHER CONDITIONS OR ALL COMBINED

GWC Total Raised For Charity Since Inception £3,910,000

25 Mile Walkers Please Note: Cut-off time at Kernsary checkpoint is 5 pm. Any walker arriving later than this will be offered transport back to Poolewe. They may opt to continue, but no responsibility can be accepted by the organisers for their welfare.

Photography: © Colin Irvine; Mari Irvine; Gary Williamson; 1 Julia McBeath Alexander; Tracy Wilson www.facebook.com/greatwildernesschallenge We almost fell of our chairs last September when Iain Bartholomew submitted his Your best GWC 25 mile time is 4:31:08, achieved both in 2000 and 2018 sponsorship. This was to be Iain’s 20th and last GWC - twenty years of fantastic 2004. How does your road marathon PB compare? fundraising for GWC charities, culminating in his final contribution of £35,585!! I’ve never run a road marathon as the thought of running with This brought his total fundraising figure to an astonishing £113,031, definitely a thousands of people completely puts me off. The GWC is the only long tough target for anyone to match in the future. Not half! We asked Iain to relate some distance race that I have ever taken part in – the objective of the runs thoughts on his GWC journey: is to raise as much money as possible for all the very meaningful charities and my challenge as part of my fund-raising tactic is to give WHAT A FAREWELL! myself a target of under 5 hours to complete the event. How did you train for each race, given that you lead a busy life? What first attracted you to the GWC? I walk at a good pace for at least an hour every day and run 8-10 miles One day while on holiday I noticed a bus full of cross-country every Saturday morning all through the year. I increase people get out at the Drumchork Hotel in Aultbea my Saturday distance about 3 months before the GWC but never run and start running up the track which we can see the full distance until the actual event. I’m not a natural athlete so just from our house. I enquired at the butcher’s shop keeping a good level of fitness is good enough for me. and signed up for the following year’s 25 mile event when I found out about Highland Hospice Did you use other aerobic exercises in your training regime e.g. and why the GWC had been set up. cycling, swimming? No – just running and walking. I also play a bit of tennis which keeps Did you initially, and throughout the years, me fit as well. enjoy the atmosphere and camaraderie of the occasion? You also completed the long races on our “away” days at both It has always been very special and even though (2003) and (2011). How did they compare? I was a newcomer I always felt welcome. Definitely not the same as the main GWC route as I like to pace myself Everybody is nervous in the bus ride to Corrie when I know what is coming up round the next corner. I found the Hallie and the chat between us all certainly helps. Kintail run particularly challenging.

Which type of races do you prefer – road or In your 20 consecutive years’ participation, can you recall any trail? special moments, good or bad, which immediately come to mind? I’ve only run a few hilly road half marathons in Every year has been different. The best bit is always hearing the pipe training for the GWC. At my age soft ground is band as one approaches the finish line – you can usually hear the much more pleasant and rewarding! I only music with still a fair distance to run. The worst bit is the long haul after started long distance trail running when I was the causeway at Carnmore – I always struggle there and you really made redundant at the age of 39 and needed need to dig deep in order to keep going. What does keep me going that something to take my mind off trying to find a new many others are also struggling at this point and we all keep each other job. In the 6 months I was unemployed I got fit going. and have never looked back. (continued overleaf) 2 Finally, the crux! How on earth did you manage to raise such fantastic sums for our charities, culminating in that Herculean effort in 2018? TOP GWC GENERAL FUND Raising money year after year for the same event is not easy. Once or twice would be fine but having to ask people for sponsorship year after year is hard! The key to success, FUNDRAISERS 2018 however, is the GWC event itself; raising money primarily for locally based medically Iain Bartholomew Aultbea £35,585 related Scottish charities means so much to so many people. I am sure that many families Christine Maclennan Aultbea £1,341 like mine have been affected by cancer, heart disease and dementia. Duncan Clark North The most important thing for me to raising a consistent amount of money is to Kessock £1,281 make sure your potential sponsor knows that you are really going to challenge yourself! Elizabeth Macrae £926 What I do is ask a potential sponsor to pledge whatever they like for me to complete the Iain Mackenzie £869 25 miles. I then ask them to agree to give me 50% more sponsorship if I manage to Gemma Urquhart Poolewe £705 complete the 25 miles in under 5 hours. As the GWC last year was going to be my 20th Victor Palmer Conon and last I decided to increase my request to my sponsors and get them to double their Duncan Clark Bridge £555 money if I finished in under 5 hours. In fact I was over 5 hours due to a strained muscle – Iain Bannerman Kildary £550 but everybody did very generously pay up! Ross Bannerman Tain £550 I have been very lucky in my career as being a geologist in the oil industry I have Freida McKenzie Munlochy £520 a huge network of colleagues and friends from many different companies, as well as a James Skinner Invergordon £490 very supportive family. Many of these have generously sponsored me for the full 20 years. Iain Firth Torphins £482 As well as contacting my regular sponsors every year I always challenge myself to add at Jean Philli Renaud £472 least another 25 new contacts to my list. I only contact people by a personal email and Eileen Urquhart Poolewe £455 make the request for sponsorship specific to them. I also make it very clear that I will not Catriona Mackenzie Gairloch £415 be offended if they choose not to sponsor me. I also don’t share who has sponsored me Sarah Banks £400 and for how much with anybody else as everybody should choose what is a meaningful Fiona Findlay Kinloch pledge for them. Rannoch Elizabeth Macrae £375 It makes me immensely proud to have taken part in the GWC for 20 years. I Rhoda Anderson £375 have not given up long distance running but I have given up fundraising as I feel I have Sheila Dunbar £362 asked all my colleagues, family and friends enough times. I still very much hope to remain Elizabeth Salvin Achiltibuie £362 involved in the GWC and help out in whatever way I can.

True to his word, Iain has not been lost to us entirely, and has volunteered to help at a checkpoint this year (Eds)

The noble Bartholomew family name, however, is still in the contention. Pictured - Iain with his son Douglas, a regular 25 mile runner, at GWC 2017. Freida McKenzie 3 TOP GWC Charity Team Obituaries FUNDRAISERS 2018 Ben Preece Sadly we have to report the passing of Marjory Jagger Skye & Lochalsh Young Carers £9,667 another GWC stalwart. Ben was a Eq Trish Macdonald Highland Hospice £5,800 popular figure at each GWC from his Eq Alison Marshall Highland Hospice £5,800 first back in 1987, through to his last in Lesley Taylor Crossroads Skye £5,419 2018, a total of 26 completions. He Marjory Jagger Mark Feeny Gairloch Aid Mobility Support £2,431 passed away on 30th April following a Jacob Rowell Scottish Huntingtons Association £1,675 four month struggle with cancer. An Andrew Ramsay Barn Church Project £1,688 accomplished runner who won many Jackie Wilson Gairloch Community Car Scheme £794 awards at the GWC, Ben will be Kevin Whiteloch Cardiac Risk in the Young £622 equally remembered by us all as a Julia Mackenzie Gairloch Community Hall £600 friendly, welcoming personality who Rachael Grist DEBRA £542 loved his annual visits to Poolewe and David Kemp Samaritans Inverness £521 being a part of the GWC family. Our Fred Lees Dingwall Mens Shed £486 sympathy goes to Sue and the Jacob Rowell Margaret Campbell Boleskine Community Care £453 extended family. Duncan Maclennan Parklands School Helensburgh £451 Eq Farren Mackenzie Poolewe Swimming Pool £429 Eq Finn Simpson Poolewe Swimming Pool £429 Jo Cowan Highland Senior Citizens Network £311 Kirsteen Macaulay VSNS £232 Ian Lawson Laura Taylor MS Society £135 Another long-term GWC supporter, Ian Lawson CVO passed away peacefully David Kemp at home in Forres on May 9th, aged 91. Ian took part in the inaugural GWC in 1986 and completed 20 events over the years, his last being at Kintail in 2011. Always an enthusiast about Poolewe and GWC, he introduced his son Andrew to the event “to secure my legacy” as he remarked at the time! Our thoughts go out to Margaret and the family at this sad time. Alison Marshall & Trish MacDonald 4 Equipment - Race Categories under SAF Rules RUNNERS ESSENTIAL! WALKERS Mile Race CHANGING ROUTES 25 Minimum equipment to be carried: If, due to injury or lack of training, participants feel It is absolutely vital to wear or carry adequate unable to undertake their chosen route, then it is protective equipment on this event, given the lack Full body cover, including cagoule perfectly admissable to drop down to a shorter of shelter, innaccessibility by vehicle and possible and trousers of waterproof material. route, either walking or running. Please let us extreme weather changes inherent in these know as early as you can, but it is possible to routes. Map of at least 1:50,000 scale change on the morning of the event itself, if of full area of race. necessary. All walkers on all 4 routes must carry waterproofs - cagoule and trousers - as a priority. Additional Compass and whistle. FOOTWEAR spare items of clothing are obviously advisable, All walkers are strongly recommended to use but will be left to the discretion of each individual. boots for this event. A variety of conditions Equipment checks will be carried out. underfoot will be encountered, and only in 13 Mile Race extremely dry weather would trainers be adequate for the whole journey. Full body cover, waterproof cagoule and trousers, available to wear or carry. COUNTRY CODE NO DOGS ON BUSES Challengers are expected to observe the Country Dogs are not allowed on the buses to Aultbea and A decision based on weather conditions Code at all times. Protect wildlife, avoid any Dundonnell. Entrants wishing to take their dogs will be announced at registration on damage and leave no litter. will therefore require to make alternative whether these items must be carried. arrangements to get to their starting point.

ALL RUNNERS water/juice is available FAILURE TO FAILING TO COMPLY at all checkpoints PRODUCE WATERPROOFS WITH THESE REQUIREMENTS STAY WILL LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION WILL BE DISQUALIFIED HYDRATED! SAFETY TEAMS ACCIDENT RISK! Safety and medical care back-up for the event will 7 & 13 Mile Circular Walkers - please note: be provided by: For safety reasons, please walk in single file on Dundonnell Mountain Rescue the steep, narrow 40 yard section of path above the west end of Loch Kernsary. Local Medical Practice PDG Helicopters Parents carrying babies/infants must ensure that DMRT Paramedics they are securely fastened in suitable 832 Wester Ross Squadron ATC backpacks. 5 REMEMBER - all participants, runners and walkers, must wear numbers on front, not on backs or rucksacks EVENT TIMETABLE 25 Walk 25 Run 13 Aultbea 13 Circular 7 Walk/10k Run 1.4/2.8 Miles IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURE All Walkers and Runners Registration 6.15 - 7.15 8.00 - 9.00 9.00 - 9.50 9.30 10.00 11.00 will be issued with Runners 10.00 waterproof, tearproof numbers. Buses Depart 7.30 9.15 Walkers 10.10 n/a n/a n/a In all cases, numbers must be Start Time 8.30 10.30 10.30 10.30 11.00 midday/11.30 worn on front, not on rucksacks or bumbags. 25 MILE WALKERS No early starts permitted. All walkers must be officially checked off at 8.30 by marshals. Please assist the marshals by 13 AULTBEA Runners start 10.30 prompt. Walkers follow on immediately after runners. having numbers exposed at all checkpoints. 13 CIRCULAR No early starts permitted. Start time 10.30. Last starters must be over start line by 10.45.

7 MILE WALKERS/10k RUNNERS No early starts permitted. Please do not enter the Hall until your registration time. Start time 11.00. Runners must leave first. Last starters must be over the start line by 11.15.

1.4/2.8 MILE WALKERS 1.4 mile walk starts at Inveran at midday, with transport provided to the start. 2.8 mile walk starts at riverside at 11.30.

HEALTH & SAFETY The above strict timetable rules are designed to increase the safety aspect of the event and adhere to event insurance rules. Accidents and problems have occurred in the past with unchecked early starters. Barn Church Team

PRIZEGIVING Starts in Hall at 6.00pm. All participants, marshals and supporters welcome.

Complimentary Post Event Massage by Bridget Williams, Wester Ross Physio, available in Main Hall GAMS Team 6 25 Mile Route ROUTE DETAILS Dundonnell to Poolewe START - 113852 - Corrie Hallie on A832. SCOTLAND RACE CATEGORIES UNDER SAF RULES Map required - 1:50,000 Sheet 19 Checkpoint 1 - 101824 - Summit of first climb. Just past this checkpoint, the route branches right at cairn and continues by rough moorland path to Shenavall Bothy. Great care must be taken on the steep descent to Shenavall. Poolewe Inverness Checkpoint 2 - 063807 - Abhainn Strath na CHECK/SAFETY POINT Sealga. This river has to be forded, also Aberdeen GRID REFERENCES Checkpoint 1 Abhainn Gleann na Muice 0.75 miles further on. Fort William 101824 From Larachantivore (054802), the route Checkpoint 2 063807 Strathan Buidhe Bridge: follows a stalkers’ path south along the riverside Checkpoint 3 026779 for 1 mile, then turns (048786) up Gleann Please note this river is bridged right Checkpoint 4 980767 na Muice Beag for 2 miles to the next Edinburgh 400 yards upstream. checkpoint. Checkpoint 5 928774 Please use it if you are unsure about fording Checkpoint 6 897794 the river - or just want to stay dry-shod! Checkpoint 3 - 026779 - Near highest point of route. Continues over plateau before descending steeply towards Dubh Loch and Ullapool Carnmore. Care required.

Checkpoint 4 - 980767 - Carnmore Lodge Dundonnell START - Corrie Hallie Gate. Continue over the causeway to the next 1 360m A832 path junction (968754). Turn right and continue 1062m 2 100m to Strathan Buidhe. Turn right (945760) at cairn Achneigie Shenavall 3 480m and descend to ford river. Regain path and Loch na Sealga Mor follow marker flags to next checkpoint. 818m Gruinard A’ Mhaighdean Island 967m Beinn a’ Chaisgein Mor 856m 4 Checkpoint 5 - 928774 - Doubles as Dubh Loch checkpoint 2 on 13 mile circular route. Leading Gruinard Bay Beinn Lair Carnmore 859m runners will meet walkers on this section to Fionn Loch Meall Mheinnidh Kernsary Wood. Follow forest track to next 5 722m Aultbea checkpoint. Beinn Airigh Charr 6 791m Checkpoint 6 - 897794 - Exit gate of Kernsary Kernsary Wood, where route turns left down to Kernsary Cottage, then turns right at T-junction below FINISH - Poolewe Loch the cottage to follow estate road to Inveran and Maree Poolewe. Loch Ewe Finish - 859807 - At riverside near Poolewe 7 Bridge. A832 13 & 7 Mile Routes 13 Miles Route ROUTE DETAILS Circulars from Poolewe Aultbea to Poolewe SCOTLAND START - 863814 - Both routes follow a narrow START - 879884 - Drumchork. Route proceeds by rough and spectacular path (Important - see undulating Land-Rover track for 5.5 miles. “accident risk”, page 5) alongside Loch Kernsary to Kernsary Cottage (793893). At this Checkpoint 1 - 927828 - Fionn Loch end of track. Route now traverses rough ground for 2 miles. Marker flags must point, the 7 Mile route turns right and proceeds Poolewe be followed to next checkpoint. to Inveran and Poolewe. The 13 Mile route Inverness turns left up towards Kernsary Wood. Checkpoint 2 - 923809 - Route turns right, joining estate Aberdeen Checkpoint 1 - 897794 - Entrance to Kernsary track from Fionn Loch to Poolewe, where, at Kernsary, it Wood. Continues on forest track then joins path merges with other GWC routes for the last 3.5 miles to the Fort William leading to Carnmore. On this section walkers finish. will meet lead runners on 25 Mile route. Please Drink Station (all routes) - 881789 allow runners right of way as they pass. DRINK - Inveran Bridge 2 miles from finish. Edinburgh Also keep dogs on a tight lead. Glasgow STATION Stay Hydrated. Use the Water Stations. Checkpoint 2 - 928774 - Route now leaves They‛re there for your benefit. Carnmore path, turning right to join narrow path - superb scenery in all directions - contouring the northern slopes of Beinn Airigh Beinn a’ Chaisgein Mor 856m Charr before gradually descending towards . Dubh Loch Gruinard Bay Carnmore Checkpoint 3 - 894768 - Junction of path and 1 START - 13m Linear Ardlair/Kernsary road. Turn right and follow Fionn Loch road via Kernsary and Inveran to Poolewe. 2 Aultbea 2 Beinn Airigh Charr 791m 1 1.4 & 2.8 Miles Routes Drumchork Hotel Kernsary Limited Mobility Walks 3 CHECK/SAFETY POINT GRID REFERENCES Loch Maree Drinks KEY 13 Aultbea 13 Circular START - 13 & 7m Circulars 25 Mile Route Start 879884 Start 863814 FINISH - Poolewe 13 Mile Route 1 927828 1 897794 Loch Ewe All GWC Routes (Linear) 2 923809 2 928774 13 Mile Route - - 3 894768 (Circular) Drinks Drinks 7 Mile Route 881789 881789 (Circular) Finish 859807 Finish 859807 A832 8 SOME CHALLENGE REFLECTIONS This year will be my tenth attempt at the Challenge and each one previously has a memory for me. Early on, back in the THEN and NOW nineties, thinking I was young and fit but being overtaken by what appeared to me as wee wizened old men, no doubt Ron Cole, Badachro younger than I am now but maybe not, bounding across the What is it about the Great Wilderness Challenge which makes Bad Bog on the 13 mile route and making me feel like I was it so special? The location? The scenery? The choice of going backwards! Or the year (1995) my wife, Lennie, was routes? The hospitality? The competition? The camaraderie running the 7 mile course and stopped to help a fellow among participants? The friendly, helpful organisers and competitor who had fallen on the path by Loch Kernsary by marshals? The benefit to Highland charities? My guess is that which time the rest of the field had disappeared into the if you ask the first 10 people you meet in Poolewe on 17th distance, so the two of them simply trotted round and finished August this year for one answer to that question you will Walking Mode 2018 joint last with huge smiles on their faces! Or then again the receive 10 different answers and, of course, they would all be year (1994) the 14 mile point to point route which started at right. Over the last 40 years or so, I have taken part in many the Red Stables, then via Loch Garbhaig, up and over the open events, from big city marathons to small country events, Tollie Path (the hard way!) and even then up and over Cliff but none of them compares with the Great Wilderness Hill, before getting to the finish in Poolewe from what Challenge. everyone thought of as the wrong side. That was billed as a I’m told there have been 14,764 competitors over 14 mile route and I promise you, it was tougher than any 26+ the years with 178 taking part in the first event in 1986 and a mile city marathon on roads. 57 runners and 129 walkers will high of 671 participants in 2009. Almost 4,000 marshalling and have memories of that - and it hasn’t been repeated, thank helping jobs have been done, roughly 120 each year - and an goodness! I have often wondered how that route compares astonishing £3,910,000 has been raised for Highland with the 25 mile Dundonnell route. Sad to say I’ve never made charities, so £90,000 raised this year will take the overall figure With GAMS team-mates it to that, at least not yet, maybe the year after next after to more than £4,000,000. What an extraordinary difference (another) big birthday - but it’ll be walking not running. But still, that has made to these organisations. I can vouch for that as a something to aim at and that in one sense sums up the Great trustee of Gairloch Aid & Mobility Support (GAMS), one of the Wilderness Challenge. It gives people of all shapes and sizes, main beneficiaries recently, the value of the support is beyond all ages and abilities and all levels of mobility, something to words. From GAMS’ point of view, the introduction of the aim at and long may it continue with that aspiration. On behalf shorter distance walks of 2.8 and 1.4 miles suitable for those of everyone who has taken part and the charities who have of more limited mobility has had a huge impact. The benefited, there is no way to thank the organisers and helpers participants at that level have very little other chance to be part enough. The whole event is simply wonderful. of community events and are hugely appreciative of the opportunity to stay connected to the community by taking part in the Challenge and raising funds for the charity. Words like “fantastic” or “amazing” are much overused these days but are absolutely spot on in this context. 9 Running Mode 1994 (Ron on right) Prizegiving Runners Prize List Veteran Prizes 25 MILE RACE - 1st, 2nd, 3rd Males (25 and 13 Mile Races) 1st, 2nd, 3rd Ladies Gents’ Veteran prizes will be awarded 1st Veteran, 40/50/60 according to the following criteria: 1st Local 13 MILE RACE - As above, plus 1st U/21 Vet 40 1st runner in the The following walkers and runners will receive 10 & 25 40-49 age bracket. year medals when they complete this year’s GWC: Sylvia Main receives 25 year medal Vet 50 1st runner in the 10 COMPLETIONS 25 mile winner Graham Bee 50-59 age bracket. Douglas Bartholomew, ; with guest presenter Roxanne Bannerman Amanda Bryan, Beauly; Ron Cole, Badachro; Vet 60 1st runner Craig Fingland, Callander; age 60 or over. Russell Keat, Edinburgh; Veterans cannot claim a prize Gairloch; Alex Macallister, in a veteran category outwith Mike McGrath, Peebles; their own age bracket. Rhoda Mackenzie, Gairloch. Veterans coming 1st, 2nd or 3rd 25 COMPLETIONS Graham Arthur receives 1st Vet 40 Manny Gordon in a race will keep their vet prize Lynn Anderson, Inverness Alex Brett Memorial Shield as well as the place prize. All winners of above awards are expected to attend prizegiving in the hall at 6pm. If unable to attend, please contact Susan Kirkness in order to receive your trophy earlier. TROPHIES WILL NOT BE POSTED OUT MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT Gairloch & District Pipe Band Under-16 top fundraisers Finn Simpson and Come Along and Join in the Fun Joint lady runners-up Farren Mackenzie at the Post Event Ceilidh! Lillian Macrae & Fiona Stewart Poolewe Hall 8pm Saturday 17th August Music by Alistair Macdonald Adults £8/Children £4 Run by West Coast Arts 10 GWC 2018 25 Mile Race Results Pos Runner Club/Town GWCs Cat Time Pos Runner Club/Town GWCs Cat Time 1 Graham Bee Inverness Harriers 3 MS 3:01:24 36 George Douglas Aberdeen 19 MV50 5:05:46 2 Douglas Bartholomew Kinlochewe 9 MS 3:12:12 37 Fleur Currie Inverness 1 FV40 5:07:40 3 Ross Bannerman East AAC 14 MV40 3:12:12 38 Michael Sullivan Westside R & F Club 1 MV50 5:09:32 4 Manny Gorman Westerlands CCC 1 MV50 3:19:02 39 Jayne Miller Westside R & F Club 1 FV50 5:09:32 5 Jamie Paterson Highland Hill Runners 1 MV40 3:27:58 40 Allan Grant Glasgow 5 MV60 5:16:39 6 Iain Maclennan Highland Hill Runners 1 MV40 3:36:56 41 Clare Martin Deeside Runners 1 FV50 5:16:50 7 John Hitchen Highland Hill Runners 1 MV40 3:55:01 42 Jean-Philli Renaud Dingwall 1 MV40 5:18:36 8 John Moffat Highland Hill Runners 10 MV50 4:03:15 43 Wendy Mackinnon Inverness 3 FV50 5:27:59 9 Karolis Tikniu Romford 1 MS 4:03:39 44 Rupert Mussen Croxley Green 1 MV40 5:35:14 10 Richard Chatburn Highland Hill Runners 1 MV40 4:03:58 45 Matthew Baxter Cheshire 1 MV40 5:35:14 Anne Dickinson 11 Jenny Gillies Rothes 1 FS 4:04:25 46 Margaret Rankin 6 FV50 5:37:45 12 Scott Dunn Inverness 1 MV40 4:09:05 47 Vicki Clark Balmacara 3 FV40 5:37:48 13 Ralph McIntosh Inverurie 1 MS 4:16:08 48 David Salt Pershore Plum Joggers 3 MV50 5:38:00 14 Tom Grant Wester Ross Athletics 5 MS 4:16:19 49 Isobel Oakley 1 FS 5:40:59 15 Matthew Dent Tain 2 MV40 4:22:34 50 Iain Bartholomew Aultbea 20 MV60 5:41:11 16 Patrick Munro Shepton Striders Derby 2 MV40 4:24:23 51 Roddy MacSween Tain 4 MV50 5:41:36 17 James Skinner Highland Hill Runners 3 MS 4:25:25 52 Duncan Maclennan Helensburgh 5 MV40 5:41:36 18 Lillian Macrae East Sutherland AAC 15 FV50 4:26:00 53 Finlay Nelson Werrington Joggers 2 MV50 5:50:07 19 Fiona Stewart East Sutherland AAC 15 FV40 4:26:00 54 Tom Lehane Newmarket 2 MV60 5:50:07 20 Alastair Whyte Fortrose 1 MV40 3:32:04 55 David Lehane Newmarket 1 MS 5:50:07 21 Fiona Whyte Fortrose 1 FS 3:32:04 56 Nikki Smith Poole 2 FV50 5:50:07 22 Cath McCormick Highland Hill Runners 2 FV40 4:32:16 57 Fiona Kirkland Gorthleck 1 FV50 5:55:16 23 Graham Arthur Highland Hill Runners 13 MV70 4:36:18 58 Gary Martyn Gillingham 2 MV40 6:01:08 Kevin Donner 24 Russell McKechnie Highland Hill Runners 4 MV50 4:50:56 59 Ben Preece Deeside Runners 26 MV70 6:03:09 25 Gerard Baptist Gairloch 7 MV40 4:55:18 60 Les Millington 1 MV60 6:12:02 26 Anne Dickinson Aultbea 2 FV50 4:57:25 61 Thomas Dickinson Ayr 1 MS 6:19:09 27 Ausrine Ward Kirkintilloch Olympians 1 FV40 4:58:25 62 Jennie Devlin Foyers 1 FS 6:21:48 28 John McKechnie West Triathlon 1 MS 4:58:28 63 Kim Burton Whitebridge 1 FS 6:21:48 29 James Cox Carnethy HRC 2 MV50 4:59:04 64 Bryan Conlin Elgin 1 MV50 6:30:21 30 Mark Ross Inverness 13 MV40 4:59:55 65 Rosemary Arthur Highland Hill Runners 5 FV60 6:30:53 31 Jon Wiggett Jog Scotland 1 MV40 5:00:11 66 Andrea Vieth Jog Scotland Inverness 1 FV50 6:31:50 32 Thomas Mathieson Jog Scotland Dingwall 2 MV50 5:00:11 67 Fiona Murphy Grantown-on-Spey 1 FV60 6:56:59 33 Archie Prentice Kirkhill 1 MV50 5:02:20 68 Andrew Tallach Badachro 32 MV50 7:49:40 34 Kevin Donner Running Club 1 MV40 5:04:05 35 Dugald Bruce Stonehaven 1 MV50 5:05:45 11 Andrew Talloch GWC 2018 13 Mile Race Results Pos Runner Club/Town GWCs Cat Time Pos Runner Club/Town GWCs Cat Time 1 Steve Worsley Inverness Harriers 14 MV50 1:30:04 37 Alice Snow Highland Hill Runners 16 FV50 2:35:54 2 Derek Martin Laide 5 MS 1:30:17 38 Gemma Shaw Kingussie 1 FS 2:36:00 3 Eilidh Prise Bath AC 1 S 1:36:31 39 Kate Forsyth Peebles 1 FS 3:37:21 4 Adrian Davis Lomond Hill Runners 4 MV50 1:36:48 40 Katie Graham Glasgow 1 FS 2:37:13 5 Elizabeth Williams Achiltibuie 2 FS 1:42:15 41 Mairi Fenton Moy 1 FS 2:37:21 6 Kevin Doidge Poolewe 1 MS 1:45:10 42 Anna Maciver Wester Ross Athletics 19 FV50 2:37:23 7 Russ Wainwright Edinburgh Running Network 1 MS 1:45:12 43 Elisabeth Grant Glasgow 5 FV60 2:37:23 8 Donald Matheson 1 MV40 1:45:25 44 Fiona Findlay Kinloch Rannoch 27 FV60 2:37:41 9 Ritchie Macrae Highland Hill Runners 10 MS 1:48:05 45 Mark Dale 8 MV60 2:37:58 10 Andrew Fraser-Harris Tranent 1 MS 1:49:02 46 Jenna Ross Lochbroom 1 FS 2:38:39 Derek Martin 11 Roxanne Bannerman East Sutherland AAC 8 FS 1:49:20 47 Carol Rattenbury Conon Bridge 12 FV50 2:39:10 12 Iain Firth Torphins 15 MV50 1:49:39 48 Lisa Baker Durham 1 FS 2:40:24 13 David Waudby-West Inverness Harriers 1 MV50 1:52:33 49 Jessica Beavon Brighton 1 FS 2:40:24 14 Willie Macrae Highland Hill Runners 28 MV60 1:54:16 50 Joolz Christie Muir Jog Scotland 2 FV40 2:47:33 15 Pete Cain Carnethy HRC 2 MV50 1:56:58 51 John McNally AC 11 MV80 2:48:36 16 Lenn Urquhart Gairloch 21 MV40 1:58:08 52 Ross Urquhart Inverness 1 MS 2:48:45 17 Claire Bartholomew Exeter 13 FS 2:02:35 53 Jim Urquhart Lossiemouth 22 MV70 2:48:45 18 Alex Mattison Inverness 2 MV40 2:05:20 54 Mark Latto Leven 2 MS 2:59:57 19 Chris Bulmer Exeter 1 MS 2:05:35 55 Roddy Main Inverness 16 MV70 3:17:21 20 Megan Dale Garve 2 FS 2:05:44 56 Sylvia Main Inverness 25 FV60 3:17:21 21 Tracey Douglas Aberdeen 19 FV40 2:08:44 57 Alison Waudby-West Inverness 1 FV50 3:17:21 Eilidh Prise 22 Ndurie Abah Kinlochewe 6 FS 2:12:13 58 Charles Jarvie Inverness Harriers 15 MV70 3:17:41 23 Ron McGill New Alyth 20 MV60 2:13:07 24 Trish Prise Aberdeen 2 FV50 2:14:22 25 Amy Macleod Laide 5 FS 2:11:40 26 Amy Forsyth Peebles 1 FS 2:15:33 27 Bruce Walker Troon Tortoises 27 MV70 2:19:02 28 Claire Allan Inverness 1 FV40 2:20:51 29 Andrew Forrest Broadstairs 1 MV40 2:21:42 30 Claire Carr Inverness 2 FS 2:28:23 31 Elizabeth Black Jog Scotland 1 FV40 2:28:53 32 Rob Shaw Highland Hill Runners 18 MV50 2:29:32 33 Ilaria Volpi Dundee 1 S 2:33:18 Iliara Volpi & 34 Alexander Booth Dundee 1 MS 2:33:18 Alexander Booth 35 Alison Johnston Newtonmore 30 FV50 2:34:20 36 Tania Mackenzie Laide 1 FS 2:35:39 12 GWC 2018 Gallery

Ritchie & Willie MacRae

HM Coastguard Support Team

Jayne Miller and Michael Sullivan Jean Philli Renaud

Urquhart Family from Gairloch Ron McGill Rob Shaw

25 mile 1st Lady Jenny Gillies

Joanna Christoffersen and Sheila Dunbar

Rosemary Arthur Helen Innes Mary Ann Cross Alyth Gollan & Jenny McCallum, Roddy Maclennan 13 Olivia Bannerman and Hannah Mackenzie GWC 2018 Gallery Presentation At Strathburn

On 18th June GWC presented a £7000 Hilo Touch Table to the residents of Strathburn Care Home in Gairloch.

Mairi MacKenzie

Roxy Bannerman & Alice Snow Andrea Veith

Strathburn matron Hazel Fraser (right) accepts the donation from

George Walker GWC representatives Eric Thomson and Mairi Mackenzie. Photo: © Colin Irvine DOGGY DELIGHTS Clare Martin

Anna Maciver

Our thanks to Colin and Mari Irvine for providing goodies for our "best friends" last year. A thoughtful and novel touch. Peter Grenfell & Friend Kim Burton & Jenni Devlin 14 Sponsors

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