Cosmics Medal Monday 26th January 2026
January 2026
Cosmics Medal Monday 26th January 2026
Lots to celebrate this week in spite of the weather, with Aberdeen and the NE under Amber warnings for wind and rain from Wednesday on. Maybe the snow was better?
Tuesday training with Ewen was at Deeside Gardens and comparatively OK, though the hill is quite steep.
The Deeside Runners Dess Wood Night Race went ahead on Thursday 22nd January. 5 Cosmics competing were: Iain Campbell (12th), Pippa Samphier (19th), Shayne Lilith-moon (33rd), Ian Hamilton (36th) and Alan Dick (37th). Apparently the course was sheltered and conditions though wet were better than expected. Shayne got a prize for 1st F50.
More surprisingly given the “challenging” or “interesting” conditions, the postponed Metro Proms 3K was run at the beach at lunchtime on Friday 23rd. The masochists (sorry I mean determined runners) taking part included Cosmics Tina McLeod and Andrea Drummond.
There were some parkruns on Saturday 24th, thought probably not shocked that Ury Riverside parkrun was cancelled as the course was the river and not beside it!
Hazlehead - Rob Jobling, Lyndsay McEwan, Ewen Rennie
Aberdeen Beach - Ally Sutherland
Camperdown - Graeme Lornie
Glenrothes - Louise provan
Later on Saturday, Linda Smith, Richard Lang, and Andrea Drummond bravely took part in the mud fest that was the North District Cross Country race at Kintore. It rained throughout.
Sunday dawned a bit drier and less windy. Unfortunately, the takers for the Cosmic Sunday run ended up somewhat dispersed as some were brave enough to drive the flooded road to reach the original venue of the Donview Car park (it's all in the name - right next to the river), while others (less gung ho) retreated to the Visitor Centre car park instead. Most did meet up on the hill, but as the weather deteriorated to horizontal hail a rapid descent was called for. We had nice cakes at the Visitor Centre, not sure about the others.
Coming Up:
Tuesday 27th Jan: Duthie Park Out/Backs (Cosmic Training with Ewen)
Sunday 1st Feb: Cosmic Sunday Run is Forest of Birse.
As always full details for Cosmic runs are on Spond. Or get in touch here if you want to join in and can’t access Spond.
Sunday 1st Feb: The postponed Lumphanan Detox 10K https://runabc.co.uk/lumphanan-detox-10k
Sunday 1st Feb: Forfar Multiterrain Half Marathon https://runabc.co.uk/forfar-multi-terrain-half-marathon
Friday 6th Feb: Metro Proms 3K https://runabc.co.uk/run-4-it-proms-3k-winter-series-race...
Sunday 8th Feb: Fetteresso Forest Marathon https://runabc.co.uk/fetteresso-forest-marathon