The Spine Challenger race – Special mid-month podcast

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In this special ‘mid-month’ podcast we are going to look ahead to the Spine Challenger Race, which starts on Saturday 17^th June.

As many of you may know Andy completed 95ish miles of this event last year, he is back again to ‘finish what he started last year’, and I will be also participating in this event.

Therefore, you are going to listen in on our pre event chat, as I try and prize Andy’s expertise from him and learn from the lessons he learnt from participating in last year’s event.

Podcast 72 – Andy’s pre-walk interview

Podcast 74 – Andy’s post-walk podcast

1. So, if people don’t know Andy, what is the Summer Spine Challenger South race?60 hours to complete?
   

• 108 miles in total?
  

Total Ascent: 5451 metres

Total Descent: 5449 metres

2. Other events taking place over the same period –– Sprint race – Edale to Hebdon Bridge – 46 miles
   

18 hours to complete

Total Ascent: 2017 metres

Total Descent: 2033 metres

– Summer Spine Challenger North – Hardraw – Kirk Yetholm –  160 miles

Time Limit: 96 hours

Total Ascent: 5,290 metres

Total Descent: 5,591 metres

– Full Spine race – Edale to Kirk Yetholm –

Start: Edale, Derbyshire, UK

Finish: Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders

Distance: 268 miles

Time Limit: 156 hours

Finish Time: 20:00 June 24th 2023

Total Ascent: 10,732 metres

Total Descent: 10,941 metres

Spine Challenger walk – 108 miles

Checkpoint 1 – 46 miles – Hebdon Bridge

Soft checkpoint – Malham Tarn – 84 miles

What are you going to do differently this time? Lessons learnt?

What did you mainly navigate with – GPS Unit, watch, map?

Hardest part of the course?

What have you learnt about your body?

What have you learnt about your kit, anything different this time?

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Many thanks for joining me on this special ‘mid-month’ GPS Training podcast