Caerketton Downhill 2019
Hefty pre-race showers left the going as officially ‘skitey’ for the 18 th running of the Carketton Downhill Race, aka ‘The Doonhiller’.
The weather didn’t deter 43 seniors and 10 juniors from tackling the
downhill courses and it remained dry, although very blustery, for the race
itself.
Despite the conditions underfoot, Luke Park (HBT) posted an impressive 5m
31s for the fastest downhill of the night, with Lucy Haines (Edinburgh Uni)
fastest woman in 7m 38s.
The most impressive run of the evening went to Don Reid (Westerlands) who
not only finished first veteran in 7th overall, but first vet
60, just missing Les Turnbull’s vet 60 record by 3 seconds. Don won some
vaseline in the lucky(?) prize draw and it remains to be seen whether this
may yield the marginal gain required to snatch the record next year. Other
category winners were V40 Jonathan Weir (Unn), V50 Stuart Lampard (Unn),
V70 Hugh MaPherson (Tinto) & F50 Kath Henly (Carnethy).
In the junior race, Tom Maguire (Lasswade) led the mass start field down
the hill, finishing in 3m14s. First girl was Robyn Lupton (Haddington), 6 th overall in 5m40s.
The senior race is part of the Alternative Carnethy 5 series of races this
week, and 25 club members competed in the Doonhiller. See the club website
for more details.
Mark Johnston (race organiser)
Full results on the SHR results tab
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