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
As with every year, HSX had their annual forum on the approach to Christmas and has been the tradition for the past three years, this year was also the Adventure Race.
Once again, the weather kept us on our toes. 2008 had rain and floods, 2009 had ice and cold and 2010 saw a fresh supply of snow dump on the Friday night..
Anyway, thanks to Chris Laws for putting it together and Alan for helping out the course out (especially the checkpoint in the middle of the pond)..
In first place this year we had Chris Slater & Ollie Robinson.. Well done to you two, you also get to organise next years..
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..
So one day back from Peru and we were already on radio Solent at 7:30am. Me, Doug and Katie went to the station this morning to be interviewed by Julian Clegg who asked us lots of questions like, what was the orphanage like, has the experience changed us, what was the journey like, how was food and accommodation. We were quite nervous before we went in but as soon as we started talking we felt really relaxed and enjoyed the experience. It was something we will never forget and definitely a great story to tell especially for Katie who had to go straight to college for her first day! Now we have just got to wait for our T.V appearance possibly on Thursday on BBC South today!
Joe Doherty
Take a listen here BBCRadioSolent
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