Jebby starts as he means to go on at Carnethy 5
Who needs a sledge?
In a race that is known for being the fell season opener Rob Jebb immediately opened his 2009 account at the 9th ‘Tiso’ Carnethy 5 on Saturday. A distance of 6 miles, with 2500 feet total climbing over 5 summits makes the race a testing opener for February!
Carnethy and Ben Nevis are the two biggest hill races in Scotland. Ben Nevis Race tackles the biggest hill, but Carnethy 5 has the largest entry list of any Scottish hill race.
The masses haul up West Kip
The Scottish Hill Runners site states
The route is justifiably popular and makes an excellent day out combined with the bus ride from Beeslack School, Penicuik and the tasty school dinner afterwards. Although relatively short, the route can be exposed to full-on winter conditions, so hypothermia is a real possibility. A target time of 1 hour is challenging to meet, for all but the strongest runners
Snow covered much of the route and the fact that only 22 runners from almost 500 finishers dipped under the hour (and Rob’s winning time was almost 7 minutes outside of Gavin Bland’s course record) shows how difficult the conditions were for this years’ event.
Rob Jebb leads Prasad Prasad on West Kip
This was Rob’s 4th win at Carnethy (a long way to go to equal Angela Mudge’s 11 wins!) and he was ably backed up by fellow SAAB Salomon Outdoor Team mate Andy Symonds in 3rd place, split by Clydesdale’s Prasad Prasad.
Fiona Maxwell convincingly won the women’s race, winning by 4 minutes from Claire Gordon and Iona Robertson.
Full results here and some fantastic photos from the Scottish Hill Runners on Flickr
Leading results
1 Rob Jebb Bingley Harriers 00:53:02
2 Prasad Prasad Clydesdale Harriers 00:53:09
3 Andrew Symonds Carnegie Harriers 00:53:57
4 Brian Marshall H.E.L.P. 00:54:59
5 Alasdair Anthony Ochil HR 00:55:41
6 Oleg Chepelin Shettleston Harriers 0:55:44
7 John Helme Ambleside A.C 00:57:22
8 Tom Addison Helm Hill Runners 00:57:31
9 Ales Drahokoupil Edinburgh University H & H 00:57:37
10 Mark Addison Helm Hill Runners 00:58:06
