176 Miles, and supposed to take two weeks. Beckenham Running Club relay it in 36 hours. Here's the weekend report by Ken Baksh. And Craig says "You should have Theunis and Neil in your special mentions as they stepped in and did an extra 4 mile leg in pitch darkness when it was looking a bit touch and go at 2am Sunday morning." And it seems Mick and Stuart did a pretty heroic night-time run as well. In fact well done everyone!

I hope that team leader/individuals may contribute to a diary....The Longest Day...and any photos etc while still fresh in mind.

" Navigation okay but running in the heat is tough"

" Think I can see Steve through the binoculars.....sorry it's a cow"

" Ken, when you said undulating and persuaded me to run....I wasn't expecting..."

" Difficult to use compass in L shaped field when 5 metre visibility"

" Think we will be out 2 hour 40.......no we can do better than that! " 4 hours later...

" I was all right until they changed the colour of the acorn"

"Nearly at the top of the hill...........oh no....

" Bet the baton could tell a good story"

" Anyone seen the running vest I left on the land rover to dry out?"---now degrading on the Brockweir/redbrro road RIP"

"Did you know that there were 612 stiles along the route?"

" the Wayne chav joke"

On the use of compasses-"suppose we could navigate by the sun...but it moves...doesn't it?"

Shower man----Who tried to turn basin into en-suite shower?

Who was the bird sleeping in the kitchen?

Who heard every clock chime every hour?

Finally.....who was the phantom snorer?

NATURE STUDY

Hope you all spotted the Buzzards, crows, swallows, rabbits, llamas (just found out reason), shrews and ...........sheep

Border Collies-"the bastard bit me"

Horse Flies- "ditto..... in sensitive area"

Who identified 4 species of grass within a one metre square area?

"Herd of cows made me swerve off course"

" Anyone for tea?"

"Anyone for cereal bars or Kipling Cakes or that cheese sandwich (again)"

" I fell asleep eating a kebab"

"Is Penrhos Farm the same as Penrhos?"

"On driving on narrow mountain roads, size matters"

"Why are we part of Abergavenny carnival when ten minutes to changeover?"

"Not another......xxxxxx tractor driving in front"

"Why are we following that little old lady into the superstore car park?"

"Sorry guys...made a mistake....went to Bron-heulog instead of Bryn-oerog.....silly language"

Driver to passenger after hurtling down a narrow mountain pass "Can i let you into a secret?"

"I am going to start at the end of Lea-Ann's leg and work backwards"

"Have you noticed the high percentage of large breasted women in this area"

Craig and Mick-For running extra legs at very short notice...particularly in the closing stages -Mick -your fourth stage of 5 miles was a project saver-well done!

Steve Elliott-team for encouraging Nikki at every accessible junction on a very tough and hot stage of course

Lee-Ann for tackling three 400 metre peaks in a row, nearly collapsing from the heat

Lawrence-What can we say-still recovering from injury one month ago...two of the toughest climbs in the book at record pace and still had time to fall over!

Please send your contributions

Mick suggested that we should engrave the baton in some way and keep at the club....committee....any thoughts?

John suggested we use the baton as a basis for "The BRC BATON CHALLENGE" an annual prize for organizing/partaking big team projects e.g. Alderney, Offa's Dyke, next year? Any thoughts