Hoka Highland Fling
A handful of Lothian Running Club members completed the gruelling 9th Hoka Highland Fling Race on Saturday.
The 53 mile multi-terrain ultra run along the West Highland Way saw the runners set off at 6am from Milngavie and for many it would be 12 hours later before they crossed the finish line in the village of Tyndrum.
The Lothian runners times and finishing positions were, 238th & 3rd M60 Scott Balfour [11h 22m 16s], 247th Alan Robertson [11h 26m 50s], 256th & 31stF Shona Young [11h 29m 11s], 257th Paul Young [11h 29m 12s], 425th Jim Alexander [13h 03m 57s].
Jim Salvage completed the first stage of the race in 2h 19m 57s, a total of 566 runners completed the course.
Full results:http://www.highlandflingrace.org/2014provisionalresults.html