Preparation for the mountains

The race involves running/cycling up mountains as well as sailing. As we have a Tillman entry 4 members of the crew will run up at least 1 mountain so most of us will be running as well well as sailing. Patrick and Virginia are experienced runners who have done lots of off road races and endurance events. David has been up Everest 7 times and so is very happy going up or down any slope and Andrew has only just returned to running having had a life of luxury and managed a very flat London marathon in April. We have managed a bit of practice on Dartmoor and David, Patrick and Virginia did the Scottish Three Peaks race 3 weeks ago. As usual we have not trained as much as we would have liked or intended! Bill leads the back up team and will provide us with encouragement food and drink on route. So hopefully all will be well when we set off for Snowdon on the early hours of Sunday morning! We shall see! Andrew