Cambus Canters is an informal series of 6 time trials held each year with the aims of encouraging individual training and progress and of identifying the most improved Deeside Runner of the year.
The 4.5km time trials run over the same course on the last Thursday of each month from March to August.
First runners off shortly after 7:00pm
Since COVID-times, the Canters have been run as a hybrid-virtual event – either turn up on the night, or run in your own time each month and submit your result. In 2023 virtual run times need to be submitted (djst.oliver@btinternet.com) by the end of the last Wednesday in the month.
Cambus Canters has been running since 2000. Initially following a “normal” race format this was adjusted in 2003 to a handicap format, which has been followed every year since. How the handicap format works
The route is shown below, starting from the Forestry and Land Scotland “Cambus O’May” carpark
In 2022 storms brought many trees down onto the old yellow trail, so a lovely new “Cambus Canters 2022 route” was set up instead and this has been used for the 2022 series onwards.
The 2022 course isn’t all new. It starts and finishes in the same places that the old course started and finished. It follows the same yellow trail paths in part, but also includes two new sections of path which were not part of the original course. In total it is a little longer at about 4.5km, includes a bit more climb, has more twists and bends and it also avoids the long fast “land rover track” descent which formed part of the original course.
2022 Results
