Castlemilk Trail Race 2025 brief
What is it? Castlemilk Trail Race is an approximate 10k trail race. There’s a bit of guess work with trail distances, trees interfere with the GPS etc, hence a rough distance. It’s pretty close! It’s our trailiest trail race! A little bit more technical in places than our other events, it will keep you on your toes. Plenty of mud, plenty of elevation, plenty of fun. Obviously an Acorn Trails event. Where? The start and […]
The Battle of Langside – Sx5 – Queens Park
The Battle of Langside Queens Park, the finale. South By Five once again comes to a close. But not before another new route and exploration of the heart of Glasgow’s south side, Queens Park. Named for Mary, Queen of Scots, her opponent at the Battle of Langside, Earl Moray, lined up on Langside Hill, while her forces aligned opposite on what is now Mount Florida train station/Langside College. Langside Hill now forms the central point […]
True Grit
South By Five – Bellahouston Park falls in early January. Always going to be a cold one in Scotland. In the 23/24 series, the race was postponed due to a severe freeze, despite Michelle and I gritting parts of the course the night before. Fast forward 12 months and we were back in a similar position. With planned Saturday parkruns and other events in the city over the weekend falling by the wayside as early […]
My new favourite
To quote a loud hi viz hero, “that’s my new favourite”! Never mind the rest of the amazing route, that finish line at Pollok Park South By Five was tremendous! It takes a lot to beat the Linn Park Trail Race ’24 edition but I think we may just have done it. Archaeologists of the future may find the remains of a missing shoe, or maybe a runner still in that mud! There might even […]
A Stark Contrast
Another South By Five race weekend and another new route. Some sort of “artic bomb” as the click bait press would call it, led to a very late change to the route last year. The snow and ice lending a seasonal magic atmosphere to the race, with declarations of the route being better than the standard route. At nearly three laps, it was a bit too lappy for Alex, so he set about taking the […]
Brutal B*stard
Another new route. Judging by the in race feedback it wasn’t a good change. Type 2 fun was promised prior to the event. And type 2 fun it was. And it didn’t even take that long for in-race offences to change to finish line compliments! Bastard brutal A post race Strava trawl had many “brutal” comments, mostly related to the route change. Mostly related to the new hill in the new route. Now known affectionately […]
Migo Mile – The Birthday Bash
Happy Birthday The Migo Mile is taking place on Sunday 24th November to celebrate the 15th birthday of Migo Sports. All proceeds are to be donated to Migo Sports nominated charity, The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, located in Bellahouston Park. Route Event sponsor Migo Sports are offering a £50 voucher for the course record……fastest male, female and non-binary contested categories. There will also be some spot prizes throughout the field for the less speedy amongst […]
“No bad”
With the dust barely settling on the Duncan Macfarlane Race, download were done, route tweaks completed and volunteers organised for another event. Who can believe it’s been twelve months since South By Five began, and here we are again. As a wee reminder Facebook pushed up a memory – Alex pounding up those steps at Queens Park before heading to the finish line of the South Side Six. It was what transpired to be the […]
Spring forward at the Dunky
The clocks may have gone backwards, but the runners certainly sprung forward off the start line of the 2024 Duncan Macfarlane Race. Everyone enjoyed their extra hour in bed, here at Acorn HQ, we were up spritely to pack the car, and squeeze in some last minute race admin! Printer issues. Why don’t printers ever work when you need them to? Michelle had activated her weather machine and once again defied the forecast to have […]