An essential ingredient of any successful attempt on the Bob Graham Round is support.
We do not profess to be elite runners or purists. Whilst it would be the ideal to run the round unsupported, in the nude, without water or whisky, in 5 hours, it is not going to happen.
We have been formulating a training plan, learning the route and crossing our fingers that our respective football teams get knocked out of cup competitions to free up weekends.
But we need a large number of helpers for the attempt itself. There are four breaks (each of around 15 minutes on the recommended timetable of the route) which need staffing as such and we need to be witnessed oneach of the 42 peaks. As we'll be battered we also need pacers to run as much or as little of the route as they feel like to help spur us on, take away some of the navigational burden and to supply a drip feed of Mars bars and good banter.
The rough plan at the moment is to make our first attempt on the weekend of 16/17 June 2007. We hope to hire a bunk house and put up any volunteeers so it should be a cracking weekend. If you are interested in taking part then please add a comment to this post or send an email to tablefootball@hotmail.com. The story behind the email address can be found on www.23sweetFAs.com.
All help much appreciated.
