Chris's Blog
Blog URL http://chrisupson.blogspot.com/
Located Glasgow, Lanarkshire United Kingdom
Tags running, athletics, hill running, marathon, nepal
Reports and photos on hill running and road racing in Scotland and trekking abroad
Latest Blog Posts
- Run4It Launch Inov-8 Off-Road Running Centre on Oct 26, 2009
On Saturday 31st October, Run4It are officially opening their Inov-8 Off-Road Running Centre at the Glasgow Outdoor Experience. Run4It have teamed up with Inov-8, the British off-road running specialists, to offer Scotland’s biggest in-store range...
- National Cross Country Relays on Oct 24, 2009
24th October 2009 Results Photos: Senior ladies | Senior men My first national relays at Cumbernauld since 2005, and I managed to run 23 seconds faster than last time, finishing the 1st stage of the 4km course in 14:52 for 37th position. I...
- Inov-8 X-Talon 212 on Oct 22, 2009
X-Talon product page Many thanks to Run4It for providing a pair of Inov-8 X-Talons Dave Woodhead's excellent photos from the Keswick Commonwealth Mountain Race show that all the top runners are wearing these shoes, so I thought they were worth g...
- FRA Relays on Oct 18, 2009
18th October 2009, North West Lakes What a difference a day makes! Yesterday glorious sunshine; today utter pish. An early start from Glasgow saw us eating al fresco breakfast in Cockermouth at 8.30am. Then down to Kirkland where the weather was a...
- Dunbartonshire Relays on Oct 17, 2009
17th October 2009 Great sunny autumn weather for this afternoon's Dunbartonshire Relays. We just about managed 4 Westerlands teams, albeit by Hamilton and myself running twice, and borrowing Elke Schmidt who arrived for a chat but ended up runnin...
- Pollok Parkrun No.44 on Oct 17, 2009
17th October 2009 Parkrun website Here are some photos from this morning's Pollok Parkrun. The race was won by Andrew Wright of Carnegie Harriers.
- Pentland Skyline on Oct 11, 2009
11th October 2009 Results My 8th year in a row at the Pentland Skyline. It was super-cold and windy before the start, but improved as the race went on, getting quite warm by the end. The first half was hard work with a ferocious headwind making...
