On Sunday 2nd June from 6pm, Nicky et al. are hosting an informal evening to talk through plans for the Dragon’s Belly (2nd to 6th July) and to discuss in more detail the route (think maps, pictures and perhaps the occasional moving image), training, preparation etc.
The venue is again the Woodhead Mountain Rescue Centre, and will get underway after the Dark Peak navigation course happening at the same venue that day. There’ll be a veggie chilli
with rice / jackets or rolls and a selection of puddings.The evening
is free, but there will be a charge of £5 for the food (all profits to WMRT) and Rescue ale will no doubt feature too. We hope it’ll be of interest to all like-minded folk – so not just to those planning to join us in early July to run or support part or all of the route – and it should be a good opportunity, amongst other things, for Mark Harvey’s newly trained acolytes to hone their route choice skills whilst poring over maps covering most of the length of Wales.
Amanda Heading will be along again with advice on how to tape/tend your feet on multi-day events; so if you do Mountain Marathons – or the Round Rotherham (just ask Kenny) – you’ll appreciate the potential value of this. Hugo Iffla will also be saying a bit about Odyssey, the cancer charity Nicky and others will be running for.
Hope to see you there – might even make a good pit stop on the way back from Yetholm for the sharp end of the field?