Cover photo – pirate capers at the final Nightmare race of the current series
Tuesday night training
Jog leader Allen took a group of 50 to the Energy Park in Methil for a set of variable speed drills. For an added bonus Ross organised a highly competitive relay race to end the session.
Nightmare Series Race #7 Shell Bay Skullduggery
The seventh and final Nightmare series race of 2017-18 took place at Shell Bay. There was a pirate theme for the event. The course covered woods, trail, beach and tarmac before finishing at Elie Holiday Park. Proceeds of over £1200 from the series go to Kinghorn RNLI and Fife Society for the Blind.
Race results:
- Chris – 1st 18:10
- Bryan – 5th 20:20
- Matt – 9th 20:49
- John – 13th 22:29
- Terry – 16th 23:20
- Gordon – 17th 23:25
- Dan – 21st 24:50
- Annie – 24th 28:20
- Jeff – 30th 34:41
Chris was the overall winner of the series, Bryan was 4th overall and Annie was 4th female and the leading FV50.
Female prize winners
Male prize winners
Parkruns
At Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy there were PBs for Matthew Miller, Jemma Guild, Lesley Turnbull and Jenni Johnstone, while at Craigtoun Park St Andrews Dawn Watson and Lynsay Bell improved on their previous best times.
Chilly Willy Trail Race
The latest Chilly Willy trail race organised by PB Timing was held on woodland paths and trails in and around Coul Den and Formonthills Community Woodland, Glenrothes. Chris Russell and Annie Gibson were representing Leven Las Vegas.
Annie and Chris at the Chilly Willy trail race
Race results:
- Chris – 4th and 1st M45 25:49
- Annie – 43rd and 2nd F55 41:09
Upcoming Events
Next Tuesday is the final week of the current training block so members will get the chance to compete for the coveted Caley Cup in the regular end-of-block pursuit race. Ian has sent the following special message about the evening …
The Caley Cup Pursuit Race, March 27th.
It’s been noted that the standard of dress in previous events has fallen well below what is considered acceptable so, for the run on March 27th, anybody turning up dressed as Elvis, a Pixy, Darth Vader, any super-hero or as an octopus (or equivalent) will be subject to an ON THE SPOT FINE of £2.
And just to balance things up, anybody wearing suitable athletic-type clothing will also be subject to the same £2 fine. It’s only fair.
Angela will be collecting the money in a bucket and all proceeds will go to Sport Relief.
This is a special one-off event to mark LLV=5 and won’t happen again until the next time.
We’ll only be five once, so please enter into the spirit of things.
If you want to go to The Caley in fancy dress then it’s up to you.
(Please note that LLV cannot be held responsible for the personal safety of any Pixies on Leven High Street during the hours of darkness)
On Saturday morning is the John Muir Ultra from Port Seton to Dunbar along the John Muir way via Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick. Robin Pate is running the full 50km distance. Davie Hogg and Jim Dunstan are teaming up to run 25km each in the relay. Karen Capewell is also doing the relay with teammate Kevin Funnel of Falkland Trail Runners.
The Tay Ten road race organised by Perth Road Runners is on Sunday morning. Among the 350 names on the start list are LLV members Jemma Guild, Kevin Hughes, Sara Ives, Susan Kerr, Bryan McLaren, Bex Oakenfull, Karen Britten, Lynne Hughes and Karen Richards.
On Easter weekend between Friday morning and Sunday afternoon Willie Rennie of Carnegie Harriers and MSP for North East Fife is running the whole 117 miles of the Fife Coastal Path to raise money for the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH). Willie is hoping that as many local runners as possible can join in on his epic run and run along sections of the route with him.
Willie will be running three sections of the coastal path on Friday and Sunday and two on Saturday. He will be passing through Leven on Saturday morning. His schedule is as follows:
Friday 30th March
- Dep 10.30am – The Coastal Path Arch, next to the Kincardine Bridge. 11 miles
- Arr 12.30pm – Dep 12.45pm – The Ship Inn, Promenade, Limekilns KY3 9BS. 17 miles
- Arr 4pm – Dep 4.30pm Beacon Leisure Centre, Burntisland KY3 9BS. 14 miles
- Arr 7pm – Museum, College Street, Buckhaven KY8 1JX.
Saturday 31st March
- Dep 9am – Museum, College Street, Buckhaven KY8 1JX. 13 miles
- Arr 11.30am – Dep 12noon – The Ship Inn, The Toft, Elie. KY9 1DT. 16 miles
- Arr 3pm – Kingsbarns (Car park next to the beach) KY16 8SX.
Sunday 1st April
- Dep 9am – Kingsbarns (Car park next to the beach), KY16 8SX. 13 miles
- Arr 11.30am – Dep 12noon – Saint Athernase Church, Leuchars KY16 0EL. 16 miles
- Arr 3pm – Dep 3.30pm – The View Restaurant, Naughton Rd, Wormit DD6 8NE. 15 miles
- Arr 6.30pm – The Coastal Path Arch, Abernethy Road, Newburgh.
Donations to the charity can be made online at Willie’s page on JustGiving.com.
Further ahead:
- Beveridge Park 5k – Friday 6 April
- Round the Houses 10k – Sunday 8 April
- St Andrews 5k (Fife AC Midweek Series) – Wednesday 11 April
- FTR Lost Trails Race – Sunday 15 April
- Angus Half Marathon – Sunday 15 April
- Livingston AC Open Graded Track Meeting – Wednesday 18 April
- Run Balmoral – Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 April
- London Marathon – Sunday 22 April
- Ravenscraig Park mile – Wednesday 25 April
- Highland Fling – Saturday 28 April
- Stirling Scottish Marathon and 5k – Sunday 29 April
- Scottish 5k Championships, Silverknowes – Friday 4 May
- Strathkinness to Blebocraigs (Fife AC Midweek Series) – Wednesday 9 May
- Beveridge Park 5k – Friday 11 May
- Loch Leven Half Marathon – Saturday 12 May
- Smokies 10 – Sunday 13 May
- Black Rock 5 – Friday 25 May
- FTR Dirty Weekend – Friday 1 June to Sunday 3 June
- Allow Half Marathon (rescheduled date) – Sunday 3 June
- Chariots of Fire Beach Race – Sunday 3 June
- Errol 10k (rescheduled date) – Sunday 10 June
- Glenrothes 10k – Sunday 17 June
- West Highland Way Race – Saturday 23 June
- Sandy Slither – Wednesday 27 June
- Balbirnie Duathlon – Thursday 28 June
- Trail Busters Series Race 1 – Sunday 1 July
- Donkey Brae Run – Sunday 29 July
- Trail Busters Series Race 2 – Sunday 5 August
- Trail Busters Series Race 3 – Sunday 2 September
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