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This year, unfortunately, the Peter Palmers
aren't in Blackburn like hoped, but are down in the South Central on the
9th/10th September.(this is the weekend after school starts for most
people) Despite the long journey, we are still planning to enter at
least 1 team, and if possible (thinking of the increasing number of
active juniors in the club) two.
For any of you that aren't familiar with
the setup, it would mean arriving on Saturday, sleeping in a hall,
school, or if we're lucky, army barracks. The race starts at around
4:30 in the morning, and the legs are as follows:
1 Red (night leg) about 5km
2 Red (night leg) about 5km
3 Light Green (dawn leg)-often
starts dark, but finishes when light enough to not need a headtorch
about 4km
4 Orange (day leg) about 3km
5 Yellow (day leg) about 2km
6 Green (day leg) about 6km
So as you can see, there are a minimum
of 6 members per team, although we can put up to 3 runners on the
yellow course, taking the first one home as the time for the race.
Unfortunately for some of our younger
juniors, there is an age limit on entrants, all runners must be
M/W12+.
Another limitation is that each team
must contain 2 boys and 2 girls. The yellow leg runners will only
count as boys/girls if all runners on the leg are boys/ girls.
Depending on the number of teams we can
enter, we will need a certain number of parent helpers. If we do get
two full teams, it may be possible to get a minibus, but we will
still need adult helpers for it to be possible.
It is a great experience, even with the
long journey, and I would urge anyone to try it.
Please get back to me as soon as
possible with if you are/aren't wanting/available to come.
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Last Updated :08.06.07 |