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Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008
by Simon at 17:06 04/02/08 (Blogs::Simon)
I'm considering doing the full walk from Avebury to Stonehenge, wondering if Bruce might be interested in the marathon.

Rather more uphill and down dale than the usual road race.

More info here:

Sarsen Trail
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Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Simon - 17:06 04/02/08
Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Bruce Ure - 17:09 04/02/08
Oooh, might well be interested. Good training for the 100km Trailwalker.

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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Simon - 17:11 05/02/08
Well, the 26 miles walk starts at 7am ish, and at 3mph it'd take 9 hours with a 20 minute break.

It'd be a bit of a march, I fancy :-)
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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Bruce Ure - 17:20 05/02/08
If I do it I'll probably run it. The only sticking point is whether I'll get permission... I've a LOT of runs around then.

Are you seriously interested in Trailwalker? If so we might have enough for *two* teams now. But you'd have to commit to putting in some serious (12, 14, 16 hour) practice walks...

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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Simon - 17:28 05/02/08
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm NOT interested in Trailwalker.
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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Bruce Ure - 17:35 05/02/08
Too late mate, I booked you in last week. Must have misunderstood...

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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Simon - 18:01 05/02/08
Ach - has that cost money? Sorry for confusion.
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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Bruce Ure - 18:06 05/02/08
No, no confusion, I was just trying to scare you :-)

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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Simon - 09:25 06/02/08
Anything strenuous usually scares me :-)

Wandering aimlessly in a confused state is my usual preferred behaviour ;-)
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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Bruce Ure - 12:57 06/02/08
Apparently official policy on hangers-on is that they are at the discretion of the Gurkhas, whose main priority is safety. At times more than four people have been allowed to walk as a team (although only four medals, meals, etc were provided). In practice, though, the walk is (almost entirely?) on public footpaths and as such there's nothing to stop anyone who wants to from walking alongside.

It's only a small leap of imagination to extend that to bikes. I expect they'd turn a blind eye to an accompanying cyclist so long as they were respectful and not disruptive.

As for train ride and cycling / camping... bring it on!

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Re: Sarsen Trail and Neolithic Marathon 2008 Bruce Ure - 09:32 08/02/08
I'll have to do some serious calendar-gazing. Let's take this to mail.

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