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ta JM -glad of your imput. yes will take some doing but can be done.
Have just sorted out 17 districts which we can place ourselves in
Blackpool- Carlislish
Carlisle Ayr
Ayr-Fort William
Fort William to Ullapool
Ullapool ton Wick
Wick to Aberdeen
Aberdeen To Edinburgh
Edinburgh To South Shields
South Shields to Grimsby
Grimsby to Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth to Sdouthend
Southend To Portsmouth
Portsmouth to Plymouth
Plymouth to Bristol
Bristol to Aberystwyth.
Aberystwyth to Flint
Flint to Blackpool
that is my idea and some forumite can help do a certain district . Who does what part depends on peops in that district.
I was going to volunteer for Suffolk, but i don't know if i fancy it now your going round clock wise!
I've just seen this thread and think it would be a great idea.
Obviously with work committments etc I would need exact times so I could check my availability, preferably a few months in advance. I would be happy to cover some of the North West, I'm originally from Lancaster so Lancaster-Blackpool or any of the coast around that area would be achievable.
P.S. Not a very experienced runner, have only ever run about 18 miles but I think/hope the distance should be achievable
Just to point out the 18 miles is in one go not in total!
It was a joke, i just had this vision in my head of going anti-clock wise, must be the way i think, 50-50 chance.
Anyway, most races seem to run anti-clock wise, maybe thats why it was in my head.
So put me down for Suffolk if you wan't
Great James -may start and finish at Blackpool.
Lardarse i was joking too
FF Essex
Hoose -Flint -Liverpool
Paul Williams Liverpool- ?
James Morris _Blackpool Lancaster ish (possible starter or finisher)
Gemma DG- Grimsby Skegness way
Cake - Yorkshire coast past Humber down to Suffock depending on what other nutter's what to do the east side and dates.
Lardarse -Suffolkish
Dark Vader - Kent Sussex ish
Slo sho - Kent Sussex ish
Shimmster - North/mid Kent
K8 -Londonish-south coast -
Loon Dod -North East Scotland
Christmas Duck(and maybe mum) -Aberdeenish coast
Dubai Dave -South Devon
great mitiog
Great James -may start and finish at Blackpool.
Lardarse i was joking too
FF Essex
Mitiog -West wales
Hoose -Flint -Liverpool
Paul Williams Liverpool- ?
James Morris _Blackpool Lancaster ish (possible starter or finisher)
Gemma DG- Grimsby Skegness way
Cake - Yorkshire coast past Humber down to Suffock depending on what other nutter's what to do the east side and dates.
Lardarse -Suffolkish
Dark Vader - Kent Sussex ish
Slo sho - Kent Sussex ish
Shimmster - North/mid Kent
K8 -Londonish-south coast -
Loon Dod -North East Scotland
Christmas Duck(and maybe mum) -Aberdeenish coast
Dubai Dave -South Devon
FF Essex
Mitiog -West wales
Hoose -Flint -Liverpool
Paul Williams Liverpool- ?
James Morris _Blackpool Lancaster ish (possible starter or finisher)
Gemma DG- Grimsby Skegness way
Cake - Yorkshire coast past Humber down to Suffock depending on what other nutter's what to do the east side and dates.
Lardarse -Suffolkish
Dark Vader - Kent Sussex ish
Slo sho - Kent Sussex ish
Shimmster - North/mid Kent
K8 -Londonish-south coast -
Loon Dod -North East Scotland
Parklife - Morayshire and would greatly prefer off-road
Christmas Duck(and maybe mum) -Aberdeenish coast
Dubai Dave -South Devon
Great idea but a hell of a project. Agree with some of the comments about the remote areas of Scotland, v v difficult to sort that out.
Are you planning this to be mainly run on or off road? Sorry if I missed that bit but I have read the whole thread. There are obv a huge number of stunning coastal paths and would surely be good to include as many of these as possible. (I think 5000miles is a bit of an underestimate)
However, I would be very keen to take part, as with many people dependant on when etc. But would prob be prepared to travel to cover a nice part of the coast so could be flexible. I am in South London so I guess Kent/sussex are nearest but as I say I could be flexible and would like to do a small part of Devon or Cornwall or somewhere nice!
Could prob only do 20 but if it is later in the summer who knows maybe 30.
Keep going and good luck.
Great James -may start and finish at Blackpool.
Lardarse i was joking too
FF Essex
Hoose -Flint -Liverpool
Paul Williams Liverpool- ?
James Morris _Blackpool Lancaster ish (possible starter or finisher)
Gemma DG- Grimsby Skegness way
Cake - Yorkshire coast past Humber down to Suffock depending on what other nutter's what to do the east side and dates.
Lardarse -Suffolkish
Dark Vader - Kent Sussex ish
Slo sho - Kent Sussex ish
Shimmster - North/mid Kent
K8 -Londonish-south coast -
Pauls4 - Devon/cornwall
Loon Dod -North East Scotland
Parklife Morayshire
Christmas Duck(and maybe mum) -Aberdeenish coast
Dubai Dave -South Devon
not on Ultra yet GP.
I was thinking Start at Blackpool at End of April or summat. Should be back in Blackpool in mid August(I hope). You can estimate what time of year it would bbe from that.
to get more exact time I guess someone could do map my run around area and estimate on 40 miles per day I guess. May try in future
Ta Hamish
FF Essex
Hoose -Flint -Liverpool
Paul Williams Liverpool- ?
James Morris _Blackpool Lancaster ish (possible starter or finisher)
Gemma DG- Grimsby Skegness way
Cake - Yorkshire coast past Humber down to Suffock depending on what other nutter's what to do the east side and dates.
Lardarse -Suffolkish
Dark Vader - Kent Sussex ish
Slo sho - Kent Sussex ish
Shimmster - North/mid Kent
K8 -Londonish-south coast -
Pauls4 - Devon/cornwall
Loon Dod -North East Scotland
Parklife Morayshire
Christmas Duck(and maybe mum) -Aberdeenish coast
Hamish Williams -Edinburgh area
Dubai Dave -South Devon
I am filling up coz its filling up
up to all of us to make this happen. The is a bbig forum project for next year
lets see if we can land a week or two earlier or later GP- may form part of training
we will all know well in advance. All should have about 3 months notice when we sort dates for district. Any probs with peops a week before they are are due can be sorted on forum and replacements found I bet. This forum is big enough I reackon
As long as Barry The Baton gets 'round I dont care if your Great Aunt Mabel does a stint
Might be shotting myself in the foot for saying this given that I'm not free to play till after Outlaw sorted but thinking you could kick this off at the Blackpool marafun? Also great idea about the running clubs, could we between us draft a e-mail/letter to each club in the area Barry goes through and try and get some of them direct to pass the Barry on or heckle as the nutters go past? Stuck a blog on fetch to pass on info. Early days there Hipp's pointed out that they did something similar there but no-one can remember where the baton is.
blog
fetchy thready?
Just had a quick look at mapping a route around Suffolk, which is probably one of the easist sections to map - nightmare!
You going to need lots of local knowledge to link up all the sections of coast that you can get to, access routes and so on, where the private land is. You can't tell this from map my run or google earth. Think you need to recruit the section heads right o the doorstep of where they will manage.
If this is going to start in April, it all needs to have been done yesterday...
Yip lardy
We need peops who can act as section head asap. There may e issues of private land but coz it will only be a runner doing a patch it may not be a problem. We may have to via off in parts. That would be up to guys in particular section. All those near eachother can communicate and organise a route now I guess.