3 weeks to go....team caminata take on the mighty K2B

If you're from round our way you will have undoubtedly of heard of the Keswick to Barrow challenge. If not it's an annual 65K challenge event where 3000 people of varying abilities get together and run, walk, hobble and crawl through the lake district.


When we were asked to join a team it would have been rude not too especially as it gave us chance to answer the following....

1. Training, have we done enough?
   



2. Our support crew, are they as useless as we think?

Setting off from my house at 4.30am was no fun but I guess walking while asleep is good practice. All 4 of team Caminata were out as part of a team of 10 called 'run and rumble'. Caminata Team member Fay was team leader for this event and was aiming to beat her last years time of 8 hours!! she shot off at 5.30am as soon as the official gate was open, we followed at 5.35am and the rest were out at about 5.45am.

The already tough route was made harder by driving rain and cold, we had decided to walk with all our Trailtrekker kit, but most people as support crew access is frequent were only carrying water, they were wet cold and miserable in about 5 mins!

Fay was in great form and was well ahead of her last year time until 25 miles when she began to feel unwell and she unfortunately had to retire at 35 miles.

For the rest of us we had decided to be happy with 10 -12 hours (12 - 14 is the average) and up to 30 miles we were on for 9 1/2 hours. The really bad weather set in at this point there had been heavy showers all morning with sun inbetween but on the higher ground the rain fell as hail - no fun in shorts!! and the wind had reached a gale force head wind.

We all finished in a respectable 10 hrs 45 mins 04 seconds.....

Have we done enough training - YES!

were our support crew useless - YES!

see the pics at...
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=80373&id=637492755&l=486d7a979d