{"id":12170,"date":"2024-06-26T23:29:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12170"},"modified":"2024-06-26T23:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:29:29","slug":"being-part-of-something-special-at-the-40th-highland-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/26\/being-part-of-something-special-at-the-40th-highland-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Being part of something special at the 40th Highland Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 40th staging of the Highland Cross took place on Saturday, June 22, 2024 – and I was among the 750 or so people lined up at the start in Kintail. While my training hadn’t been as fulsome as I might have hoped, I managed a decent enough run and was happy on the bike section, completing the 50-mile duathlon in a time of 5 hours, 28 minutes and 29 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read my Active Outdoors feature on the event here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2024 event also saw a 31-year-old record broken by men’s winner Ewan Brown, who took 18 seconds off the long-held course record, finishing in 3:13.13 – a phenomenal time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a short video I made of the event, to show the parts that only those who take part – or volunteer on the course – get to see each year…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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