On the 17th July 2011 we set off, as a group of four, attempting to complete the Trailwalker UK Challenge, of walking 100km across the South Downs in less than 30 hours.
Sadly, we failed in this 'Challenge', as only three of us were able to complete the course (which we did in just over 24 hours) with one of the team being 'forced' to pull out by the medics after 40 miles.
The decision to accept the 'advice of medics' in the early hours of the Sunday morning, was taken fairly grudgingly, but with the alternative being the possibility of featuring in a newspaper article entitled 'Death on the Downs' it seemed at the time to be the most sensible course of action to take.
However...having trained for 9 months, and been unable to finish as a team of four, we felt quite literally that we had been "Robbed!"
That being said (see the following link to prove that this was actually said! Final 2011 Trailwalker Blog) the three of us declared at the time, that whilst it would have been great to finish 'as a four', we were not doing Trailwalker again...ever, not even if someone asked really, really nicely. No! No, and we meant NO!
So why then are we about to embark on the first of our training walks for Trailwalker 2013.
Who knows, but as the title says "Here we go again...", and we plan to do a gentle 4 hour walk prior to a Sunday roast at The Bluebell pub, in the West Sussex village of Cocking. As for the weather forecast...
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