pubs in the area, the last one being the Partridge before she retired If you are already a volunteer deliverer, please watch for an email in 2000. In her spare time, Pat enjoys bungee jumping, ice climbing or a paper invite depending on how you requested to be contacted. and snowboarding. See you soon! Social meet-up for deliverers Thank you to the 19 people who were able to attend our first delivery volunteer meetup which took place in late October at 10am in the morning. We all had some good chats and got to know one another a little better. We promised that these meetups would be regular and would vary by day and hour so the next one will be late afternoon.
Who do you know who might enjoy joining the delivery team? We are urgently looking for street deliverers for several areas. We also need to recruit a small team of ‘standby’ deliverers, co-ordinators and distributors who can flexibly cover holidays, illnesses and other emergencies among the regular delivery team.
Extreme runners seen in Wendover High Street In most towns and villages in the UK, 135 people clad in running gear and a visible coating of mud, running up the High Street would have been a bit unusual. On Friday 10 November, that was exactly what happened. The Druid’s Challenge is a 136km (about 85 mile) ultra run along the Ridgeway. It involves 2,203 metres of ascent and is completed in three days – so it is roughly equivalent to averaging more distance than a marathon every day for three days. We spoke to Rowland Gadsden who was a marshal near the gate to St Photo: Robin Boult Mary’s church in Wendover. Twice in the past he had been a participant in the run, but this time, decided that being a Most of the 135 starters completed the course and provisional volunteer was more sensible for somebody nearing 70! results showing that Nathan Montague finished in 11:16:07. Rebecca Perrett finished in 14:16:57. “Many of the early runners went straight through, so I didn’t get much time to talk to them. I had a good chat with a lot of them though The Druid’s Challenge run is one of several organised and managed – they were all very friendly folk. I moved onto other checkpoints by Extreme Energy Ltd, a company based in Wendover. on Saturday and Sunday. I was touched by the fact some of them stayed at the checkpoint until their spouses came through to check that they were OK. They were all very inspiring.”
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