Lots of planning, packing and writing the BGR manual. This has been a useful exercise to get me to think about who and what needs to be where and when. Also what to pack, what to explain. A number of people involved are not runners and previously thought Bob Graham was a mid-West US preacher.
2 1/2 years since I decided to attempt the BGR and 2 days to go. This may be the calm before. I am visiting a customer tomorrow, trying to sleep as late as I can in a B & B in Ullswater on Thursday night. I don't feel nervous or really excited, maybe that is being 42 and treating it a little like a job to be done and doing all I can to give it the best chance of success, rather than worry about it. The one thing that had concerned me was the weather and that has improved in terms of the forecast a lot in the last 5 days.
Outlook for Friday to Sunday:
Occasional showers on Friday clearing, leaving a dry weekend with plenty of sunny intervals. Feeling cool and fresh in a northeasterly wind that will be strong at times on Friday.
If that is what we get then I will be content.
Packing probably too much stuff in 8 labelled boxes on the floor, plus tents, matts, sleeping bags and water containers among other items. Planning and packing has replaced training as a focus in the last week. A few last phone calls to make.
We have a bunch of great pacers and friends from the last 42 years helping, a cast of 13 at last count. Whatever the outcome in terms of getting round the 42 peaks in 24 hours, the other 2 measures of success are
- Failure to call the mountain rescue
- Everyone has fun
Clive, looking forward to your send-off from the Moot Hall then meeting you at Dunmail Raise in the early hours of Saturday. Then I want to run that last section back to the Moot Hall with you. Don't let me down!
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