GPS Tracker & Schedule

Below is a link to a website that will give you GPS tracking of my and my fellow runners positions:

Note new link from 18/6

https://live.opentracking.co.uk/rrrunbrit25/

Super Important

This link is provided to enable you to follow progress. PLEASE DO NOT get actively involved ie scramble emergency services, if you see the tracker not moving for a while...

The event has multiple safety protocols including medics & support teams on-hand who will be actively tracking us via multiple methods. Trackers are not 100% accurate 100% of the time, there may be signal loss, battery issues etc aside from the fact I may be at an check point (eating) or have stopped for ice-cream.

Some general points to be aware of:

• The trackers are wee boxes strapped to our running packs.
• There will be times where we are in a blackspot & the tracker might not update, perhaps even for an hour.
• This is not a race. No times are being taken at all.
• The only time factor is that there are cut-offs which are roughly calibrated on 3mph. If one does not achieve this then one will be asked to jump in the bus and taken forward to the next checkpoint or further, to enable the event to keep moving. Failure to complete one day does not prevent participation in future days.
• 3mph may seem a modest speed however, unlike a road marathon, we have to navigate, eat about gazillion calories a day (so aid stations have much more significance), climb 70,000ft of ascent, deal with styles, gates, cattle, overgrown paths etc and average 33 miles a day, day-in day-out. 
• As a general rule of thumb, if I am moving at 3mph (5kph) or more that is good.
• In the first week at least, I hope to move faster than that in the mornings and "bank" some time ahead of the cut-offs. [That said there is a lot of climbing on the coastal path to factor in] I can then gauge how I am feeling in the afternoons. The name of the game is to be in the best shape possible for the following morning, and so there is a balance between pushing hard to finish early and maximise recovery time, or easing back and walking for a while as "active recovery".
• Not all of our accommodation is next to where we finish, so at the end of the day, if I am doing 30mph+ I am likely in a minibus travelling to the accommodation! Similarly, first thing in the morning.
• The full itinerary is listed below: