Malvern Training

Last Saturday the whole team got together for the first time, bright and early, for a training walk over the Malvern Hills:

Richard: 1st group Training session today – just a quick stroll up the Malvern Hills. Had to virtually kick Chris out of bed at 7:50 this morning, no surprise I don’t think he knew there were any hours before 1pm on a Saturday. Just a gentle 13 miles up to the top and down… and up the next one and down… and up the next one and down… You get the picture. Only three hours so not too bad… for a first effort. Three months to go so it’s a long way off yet… plenty of time for Jon’s dodgy knees to get sorted. I’m confident!

Trevor: Well we have started the team training. All four of us left the quarry car park in Malvern at 9.05 am on Saturday 28th March and exactly three hours later we got back to the car park having walked just over 20 km with as many up hills and down hills as we could find. It was a really good day weather wise considering the forecast all last week had been for driving rain and howling winds. It was a bit breezy at the top but we had no rain at all. We all took a turn at being the highest person in Worcestershire at 1395 ft. Rich thought he had won by being the tallest of us all until Chris climbed on top of the triangulation post! All in all a really good morning and start to the team’s training without even any blisters.

In the beginning...

This is where we’ll be keeping you up to date on our training, how much money we’re raising and any news we have regarding special events and features over the coming months. For those of you that have no idea what we’re going to do, here’s a bit of a run down.

At the end of June, four of us (Chris, Jon, Rich and Trev) are going to climb the three highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales, in just twenty four hours. The main reason for doing this is not because we need psychiatric help, but to raise as much money as possible for Christian Aid’s relentless fight against poverty and injustice.

The fact that every eight seconds a child dies of hunger unnecessarily is reason enough to want to make a difference, but there are many other statistics that illustrate how those stricken by poverty need our help. By climbing three mountains and gaining your sponsorship, we can change real lives for the better.