The Kintyre Forum

MOKRUN has achieved an incredible 4 years in a row as the most popular race in Scotland, as voted on by readers of http://www.runnersworld.co.uk. While the published categories have changed year on year, MOKRUN has consistently been at the top for Scotland in at least one.

And this year in 2009, MOKRUN was just beaten into second place overall for the whole of the UK. In terms of Atmosphere, MOKRUN was rated 4th best in the UK, just behind the London Marathon and the Great North Run - both of which have tens of thousands of runners and full time professional organising teams.

MOKRUN was also voted second top for Beginners in the whole UK, with only the London Marathon being voted better!

A huge amount of community support makes the MOKRUN weekend unique, combined with year-round hard work from the organising committee.

The MOKRUN committee is very proud of what's been achieved, and very grateful for all the ongoing support from sponsors, supporters and helpers, as well as the dozens of locals who line the route cheering on the runners.

The 2010 race is planned for 30 May, and if you want to be part of it, enter online now at http://www.mokrun.com

When is this going to be published, do you know? It is not on the RW website right now, as far as I can see ...

Its published in the Feb 10 issue of Runners World which came out at the start of the week. Last year it was the same, the website was updated some time after the magazine came out.

I noticed that as well, but it is in the magazine as jsut went and bought it

Mary G wrote:When is this going to be published, do you know? It is not on the RW website right now, as far as I can see ...

Mary, plan to scan the issue and publish it on here tomorrow night.

What a superb achievement and the whole community should be proud of this. It really is a fantastic event.

Fantastic achievement! Well done to you all.

Here are the scanned images from the February edition of the Runners World Magazine.

You can see bigger images on the MOKRUN website at http://www.mokrun.com/latestnews/index.htm

Cheers for that, KFN!

That is just fabulous to see and read. Shows what can be done when people pull together.

Everyone involved - take a bow!

Fantastic news indeed and congratulations to the Barbour Boys who had this vision over 4 years ago and followed their dream to make the MOK possible which has brought so much health and fitness to the wee toon .

Proud to be part of it .....

Great picture too of Westport Beach and of course our own Jog Scotland Wee Toon Runner member ' Iceblue ' on the beach . Not sure who the other two behind her are ...anyone know ?

Pans Lass wrote:Fantastic news indeed and congratulations to the Barbour Boys who had this vision over 4 years ago and followed their dream to make the MOK possible which has brought so much health and fitness to the wee toon .

Yes - well done on a great achievement!! To all involved not just the Barbour boys - especially Elaine - who should not be missed out as she has been involved since day one and is now the race director.

Even hoping to run myself this year

lizmck wrote:

Pans Lass wrote:Fantastic news indeed and congratulations to the Barbour Boys who had this vision over 4 years ago and followed their dream to make the MOK possible which has brought so much health and fitness to the wee toon .

Yes - well done on a great achievement!! To all involved not just the Barbour boys - especially Elaine - who should not be missed out as she has been involved since day one and is now the race director.

Even hoping to run myself this year

Yes, I'd just like to echo that too with regards Elaine and also add another - Helen McKinlay - who was part of the committee for the first two years and did a huge amount of work behind the scenes and also for the Sports Council too.

So to Tom, John, Hendrie, Elaine, Helen and the current committee - congratulations to you all. Thoroughly well done and hope this inspires you to many years of MOKRUN races.

Oops sorry Elaine ...didn't know you were in it from the beginning too ...my apologies You do a fantastic job indeed and now i am involved i see the work that you and the committee put in to making this a success every year .

Well done .



Congratulations again to all !