Spare a thought and definitely a shilling or three for brave and hardy Andrew, the son of my dear chums Chris and Liz.
He is, as I write this, one of the survivors who is competing in what is rightly called Britain’s most brutal race – The Spine Race - the website of which can be accessed here so you can see it in all its gloom and deep gore. Over a space of 70 all-too-short and freezing cold and inhospitable hours the idea seems to be to walk and/or run the 268 miles of the Pennine Way from Edale up to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. Yes, that’s well over 35 miles a day – enough to kill a man probably.
To me the whole thing sounds potentially horrific and the last thing I would ever want to do in the years I have left to me on this beautiful earth, but Andrew, good man that he is, is doing it all for charity – in this case the Regimental Association of the Royal Regiment of Scotland and you can support his valiant efforts here on the dedicated Justgiving site.
Go on, you know you want to!
Great blog! Colly did amazingly well – but if this makes it any easier he had 7 days not 70 hours! I’m sure that is little consolation…