As mentioned yesterday, teamHSX on Atacama were on today’s news.
This link takes you to the main article :-
and this link is the small snippet on the lunch time bulletin :-
Also, this evening we broke the £1,ooo mark for our Cancer research fundraising.. please help us get to £6,690… Thanks..
Today, teamHSX on Atacama were joined at Hengitsbury Head (Southbourne, Dorset) by Divya Kohli, ace reporter from Meridian News. She filmed a piece on us to be shown on the Meridian News tomorrow (Monday 17/1/2011) night on the main bulletin.
Divya, even said they are keen to join us on our Malaga training session and are even talking about joining us in Chile for the race….
teamHSX on Atacama then went on to complete a 25km training run along Bournemouth & Poole beaches and back…
Today was also great as we recieved our new team kit….. It felt great.. Thanks Russ and Simon Furlong for helping us with this..
Don’t forget now, with only about six weeks left until we fly out, it would be great if you bought a time slot and sponsored us… Go to the Atacama pages to find out more…. www.hsx.org.uk/Atacama
The next HSX training weekend is taking place on 28th – 20th January 2011.
We have booked the Hampshire education centre at Argoed Lloyd (nr Brecon) it has 22 beds with more to add if we get a large take up. the cost for the weekend is £55.
Dave King is the event director, you should have received an email with more details, if not please contact him.
With less than two months now until teamHSX On Atacama fly and the race starting, the guys are really hotting up their training and sponsorship. Training trips planned, include a weekend in Malaga and lengths of Bournemouth beach.
They’re still alos trying to hit their target of £6690 for Cancer Research. To sponsor them go to www.hsx.org.uk/atacama
Great news…
After a successful training run on Butser Hill last night teamHSX on Atacama (Rich Batstone, Chris Laws & Alan Braithwaite) who are running across the Atacama Desert in March 2011 and are trying to raise some cash for Cancer Research are pleased to announce that their pages are now open..
If you’d like to find out more and hopefully donate a bit of money please go to hsx.org.uk/atacama
Keep on running…
Competitor List and Bios
A preliminary list of competitors for the Atacama Crossing 2011 can be seen on the website. You can sort the list by nationality, country of residence, age group and more.
It’s now real… And getting closer by the day..
