St Ronan's Games - Lee Pen Hill Race Report

Lucas and Andy near the top

There were 24 runners in the Innerleithen St Ronan Games Lee Pen Hill Race and the Moorfoots and locals were well represented.

The race won by Lucas Cheskin in the time 26.42 for the 3 mile race which includes 1,200 brutal feet of climb and then foot burning descent.  He led to the top (where Colin was marshalling) and held on the descent to win the trophy and £100 pize money!
Lucas was closely followed by Fergus Johnson of Gala and then our own Andy Cox 3rd (27.27) , with ex-Moorfoot (now Strathclyde Uni) and under 20 World Duathlon Champion  Benjamin Hindley in 4th (27.49). Next Moorfoot home was David Cheskin with a very respectable 35.41.

Photos here

Full Results here

Pos	Runner	Club	Cat	Local	Time
1	Lucas Cheskin	Moorfoot Runners	M	Cardrona	00:26:42
2	Fergus Johnston	Gala Harriers	M		00:26:55
3	Andrew Cox	Moorfoot Runners	M	Innerleithen	00:27:27
4	Benjamin Hindley	Strathclyde University	M	Innerleithen	00:27:49
5	Peter Gardner	HBT	M		00:29:19
6	David Garkney		M		00:29:54
7	Owen O' Neill	Westerlands	M		00:30:52
8	John Tullie	Teviotdale Harriers	MV		00:31:01
9	Dean Carr	Corstorphine	MV		00:31:29
10	Bob Johnson	Gala Harriers	MV	Walkerburn	00:31:39
11	Ivor Normand	HBT	MV		00:32:25
12=	Don Reid	Westerlands	MV		00:33:17
12=	Michael Greens	Penicuik Harriers	M		00:33:17
14	David Cheskin	Moorfoot Runners	MV	Cardrona	00:35:41
15	Andrew Lawrie	Lauderdale Limpers	M		00:35:44
16	Steven O'Reilly		M		00:36:09
17	Ian Mason		MV		00:36:11
18	Rachel Lees	Penicuik Harriers	F	Innerleithen	00:38:08
19	Sadie Kemp	Penicuik Harriers	FV		00:39:30
20	Chris Downie	Penicuik Harriers	MV		00:39:41
21	Ian Cross	Peebles Triathlon	MV	Innerleithen	00:41:07
22	Daniel Greens		M		00:41:20
23	Kenny Gunn-Russell	Harmeny AC	MV		00:42:18
24	Frank Birch	Teviotdale Harriers	MV		00:48:42

Colin took part in the Round the Town race which is a handicap 1/2 mile race finishing along Innerleithen High Street. Craig did the handicapping and I was back marker and wasn't fast enough to catch the front runner in the half mile and finished 3rd behind Katie Swanson and the Standard Bearer! Still I covered the course in 4.34 mile pace so happy.