 Well, with less than 10 weeks to go until the big event, I hope your training and fundraising is going to plan and that you’ve read your Team Manual so you’re fully clued up on all the logistics for your trip to Devon!
To help you with your preparations, your Team Captain should have recently received a Team Journal from us in the post. It’s a new bit of kit we’ve introduced this year and has been designed by previous competitors (including me!) to help get your team ready for battle. It prompts you to chat about what you want to get out of the event (both personally and as a team), your strengths and weaknesses and your role within the team. It might sound like it’s not worth doing, but I promise you it is. The more you learn about your teammates now, the better you’ll work together at the event (and the less likely you are to fall out in the middle of Dartmoor when you’re under pressure!).
For example, have you thought about what motivates each team member when the going gets tough? Some people like positive encouragement, others work better with a boot-camp style motivation and others may prefer just to get on with things themselves. It might not sound important now, but when you’re focussed on getting your team across that finish line at the event, it could be crucial.
Whilst you’ve been training, Jim Bellinger (Operations Manager) and I have been busy designing the course – check us out in the photos! Overcoming gale-force winds and snow, we’ve now run, biked and paddled the length and breadth of the entire course that you’ll be facing in July and we can promise you some fantastic scenery. Oh, and some hills. Dutifully, we have also tested the local cream teas – although we’re not sure you’ll have time for those?!
Out and about in Plymouth, we soon came up with a bright idea for a stage and, as a little taster of the event, crack the following code to decipher the name of one of the stages you’ll be tackling:
RFSD MFSIX RFPJ QNLMY BTWP
Right, that’s more than enough clues for now, but check back in June for a final update before we see you in the West Country! Happy training...x
Amy Whiteley
Course Director
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