Less than a day away from the inaugural running of what looks to be a great race. My race prep is a bit better considered than that of last weekend for the Cnicht race which consisted of an eleven miler 2 days before, a ten miler one day before (running down to watch the ‘nutters’ in the Tryfan Dash followed by Pete’s memorial) & too much wine at the Café the night before. I realised

Well the best laid plans lay in waste on the Friday before this year’s challenge as our Siabod Shifters team, already struggling to find a 4th Shifter, loss two speed merchants due to lack of recovery from our recce, lesson learned for next year, don’t leave the recce & training so late! Amazingly & with no small help from Ellie Salisbury two replacements were found in the form of young Phil & Sion, so with

My brother Ian was such a decent person that simply I do not have the words to say how much I loved & respected him. Sadly he was also deeply troubled by his difficulties & my attempts to get him to see the light & respect himself for the wonderful person that he was ultimately & tragically failed. I am in the wonderful arms of Dorina & am surrounded by an extended ‘family’ of caring

I am sorry that last week I wasn’t at the Café when someone who had taken the time to follow my intermittent blogs that I wasn’t here to actually speak to you, rest assured I was surprised & delighted to hear of your interest as much as I was disappointed by my absence. For the record my comment on my current position is simply ‘don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today, tomorrow

Café closed (well it is 21:30) so a little more time to say some more. So many Marshalls made up of OVMRO Volunteers as well as supporters of their fund raising team 333, all with the passion of Tess & Melonie organising this great event. My mate Georg is one of the Marshalls but if he does a kit check on me on Saturday in the forecasted rain after 4 hours he will risk losing