Trips down the A9 aren't something I look forward to especially as the couple of hundred miles south to the Central belt seem to take up most of the brief…
Let's hear a cheer for the lunchtime run! Sometimes I find it hard to drag myself away from the warm office and go through the hassle of getting organised…
The hailstones outside the kitchen window had finally started to melt in the bright sunshine, only to refreeze as the sky clouded over. The sight wasn't…
Beinn a’ Bhuird has been on my to-do list for a while now. Along with its neighbour Ben Avon these two behemoths dominate the eastern skyline of…
The Munro of Fionn Bheinn stands just to the north of Achnasheen, a lone Fannich, separated from its fellow hills in the range by Loch Fannich itself.
The legendary Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon took place on Harris this summer and Jenny Gillies was there to take part in the two-day orienteering epic
Tomintoul is bathed in bright spring sunshine when I arrive at the Glenlivet Estate office. It looks like it’s going to be a perfect day to spend…
This run up through the Craigellachie Nature Reserve in Aviemore is a well-known classic but a new discovery for me.
It’s strange to be writing about this run while in the Mediterranean sun, thousands of miles away from a Scotland that is firmly in the grip of…
It’s always a good start to a run when even the car park boasts its own attractions. If you go through the gate on the opposite side of the road…
After days of mist, damp and cold weather the skies finally cleared. OK, it was still only two degrees in the middle of the day, but the sun was out and…
The water of life has never been so well earned, as Jenny Gillies discovered on her first endurance race
I WAS heading to Fort William to support friends racing, but as the event started in the afternoon I figured I had time to get in a run of my own before…
The Gaelic translation of Moruisg is “big water” so it wasn’t surprising that my feet were soaked within 15 minutes of starting the…
We’d decided to head east to get the best of the weather, but watching the showers lashing the windows of the Glenshee ski centre café wasn’t…
Head down one of the side streets away from Rothes’ industrious main street and you are soon either walking along the grass banks of the Spey or,…
After years of saying I wanted to go to Knoydart I was surprised that it was hooves rather than hill running that finally got me over the sea to Inverie.
The Braes of Abernethy are typical of the rolling grouse moors of the north-eastern edge of the Cairngorms but the Corbett of Gael Charn has one major…
Not everybody wants to run, trek, climb or kayak their way through the wilderness (apparently) so Jenny Gillies took a slower-paced view of the outdoors…
I WAS introduced to this route in Glencoe while staying with a friend in Lochaber. Suz had suggested a run up into the Mamores but the following morning…
