The Terrex looms large....

This weekend sees the big adventure race of the year - the Terrex. Starting with a prologue on thursday evening the race proper then kicks off 'very early' on friday morning according to James Thurlow, the organiser. This is proper expedition racing - 4 days non-stop, with a good field of the UK's active adventure racing teams. Other big races in Europe and further afield have meant that the Irish teams are the most international enties, but hopefully that won't diminish the standard of the racing.

Inov-8 is well represented with the main team who have posted their own blog, but also Chris Near and I are racing as half of the Team planetFear.com. It's been a bit of a last minute scrabble as we were forced into looking for a new lady for the team only a few weeks ago, and with such short notice and such a long race, coupled with the fact that most other established racers are already competing, made for quite a hunt. No stone was left unturned and we evenually found Sally Ozanne hiding underneath one!

Sally brings a good background in endurance, paddling, biking and running and climbing to the team, and she happens to be an instructor at Plas y Brenin too! She's very much our new secret weapon, and we're ready to surprise the other teams..... . Everyone says she's very cheerful and very hard too. We're all certainly going to need to be both of those to win this race.

Follow both team's progress over the weekend at
http://www.adidas-ar.com/newsite/index.php

See you on the other side.....