Nancy Scott wins Inverness Half Marathon 2025

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00:00Yeah, congratulations Nancy. Thank you. What did you find in the course today? Was it quite warm?

00:06It was pretty much the right temperature actually. I did kind of down myself with a couple of little

00:11water pups on the way just to keep cool but it was like pretty much perfect conditions.

00:15Okay, good. So tell us how the race actually unfolded because we were told that there was

00:20a group of you for quite a while. Yeah, so there was a group of us hanging back I'd say

00:26and I took it quite conservative on the hills because I knew that they were coming in the race

00:33and then a few of us then broke away at kind of mile 10 so we actually left it quite late

00:38and then were slowly catching up. Okay, so do you know who was in that group? I didn't actually

00:44know. I think I've run with a couple of them before but no I didn't actually know any of them.

00:48They're kind of spontaneous little forms. So was it you that was pushing the pace after 10?

00:53Um, me and another guy actually. It was the classic kind of perfect combination of a

00:58tall, strong man who was also kind of pushing me along. So do you know when you got away from Naomi?

01:04I'm not too sure. I could hear kind of the first six miles I think up to the first hill I could

01:10hear someone cheering for Naomi behind me but I didn't want to look behind to kind of spur her on

01:15so I'm not actually sure when you pulled away. Okay, so you knew you were hours ahead? I knew

01:20I was near her but I didn't know I was ahead so yeah that's why I didn't want to go too fast. I

01:24was conscious if I blew up Naomi would be there to sprint ahead. So I mean your time um roughly

01:321.13? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, so I was happy that actually. I thought it would be a bit slower with

01:38the hills in the course and yeah so no I'm really happy with that time. Yeah, well particularly

01:43coming after a couple of other big races in the last few weeks. Exactly, no it's not been the

01:47perfect kind of build-up for this race so I'm really glad I was able to finish strongly.

01:54So you've won the Scottish Short Course. I have, yeah. So this is your first road title. It is,

02:01yeah. So I'm hoping to do the Silvernose 5k as well. Oh yeah. This is another one in there.

02:08We were on a train and just kind of watching the clock tick over to 6pm so I managed to get an

02:13entry this year. Oh yeah, you went really fast. Yes, they did go very quickly. So between now

02:19and then what are you planning? So probably just uh easy week of running next week and then I'll

02:24try and do a few shorter sessions if I can. Yeah, I'll hopefully do something Kirsty and

02:30Sandy's group in Edinburgh. Yeah, okay there's no more races at the moment. Probably no,

02:35no I'll knuckle down and just do a bit of training and also focus on work as well.

02:39Are you thinking about any 10k or half marathons? I think so but I think I'm going to give them a

02:46bit of a rest because I'll probably do some in September, October time. So yeah, so no races

02:51on the horizon really. No, but I've really enjoyed this one. So yeah, it's been a perfect day.

02:55Apart from the hills, did you enjoy the course? Oh yeah, no I did. The hills weren't too bad

02:59actually. I'm glad they didn't take them too hard. No, it was a really good course. I really enjoyed

03:03the downhills obviously and there's a really good community spirit around. And the atmosphere

03:08was really good. Yeah, no, I really enjoyed it. It was nice to finish on the track as well and

03:11have a bit of bounce at the end. Yeah, yeah. No, I really liked it. Okay. Yeah, thanks very much.