Starting on Saturday 17th October, in beautiful Chiavenna, in the Alps north of Bergamo, Italy it was well done to Cat MacDonald, who finished 13th lady with 47:58 at the Kilometro Verticale Lagùnc, and to Alistair MacDonald who ran 58:00 in the mens edition. A3.3k course, with 1k of ascent! Then on Sunday 18th, Cat ran the Val Bregaglia 25k Mountain Trail Race finishing 2nd lady in 2:15:40.
Up & Running had a couple of events on Saturday too. Well done to Iain Murphy who was 2nd in 1:26:28 at the Chaterherault Trails 20k, while Gianluigi Re was 3rd at the Alexandra Park 5k with a 20:00 PB.
On Sunday 18th October, it was the TCS Amsterdam Marathon. A bit of rain in this one, but outstanding work by the dynamic duo of Chic Forsyth 3:08:42 PB & Gavin McGowan 3:29:36. Well done guys!
It was also the Altra Yorkshire Marathon on a sunny Sunday, on a tough, hilly course. A brilliant top 100 run by David Jarrett with a PB 2:47:52, while James Berry had an amazing marathon debut in 2:58:41. And it was a great run by Veronica Fusaro on the back of a disrupted training block, with a PB 3:50:15.
In the north east of England on Sunday, there was a brilliant run by Dave Ferguson with 1:29:42 2nd MV45, at the Run Nation Northumberland Castles Half Marathon. An 11 year HM best performance by Dave!
