UKC

Any UKCers at Ten Tors this weekend? I know a few are/have been leaders?

My first time at the event, with my eldest doing 35 miler. I was blown away by how good the whole experience was (apart from the traffic!), and what an amazing experience it offers the kids involved.

Roll on next year!

Yep, we were there. I've been involved and a Team Manager for many years, since my kids did it way back. We had 49 young people in the Event this year, across all the distances. 

It's an extremely special event to be involved in, and for many taking part it is quite literally life changing.  Fair play to the Army, they do it so so well. OK it's a PR and logistics planning triumph for them, but their care of the participants and the focus on the positive experience for them is great to see, year after year!

True for me.  Many, many years ago I did the 35 mile route.  Inevitably hadn't taken training seriously, and suffered so badly, but completed it.  Made my realise that as long as you keep putting one foot before the other, it's amazing how long you can keep going.

Did the 55 mile route a couple of years later, still hadn't trained hard enough, but because psychologically I knew I could do it, my memory of it is that it was much easier than the shorter event.

As an aside, during a training event our outdoor activity teacher lost 6 of us, fifteen year olds, overnight on Dartmoor in horrendous weather.  We were all fine, just camped in the wrong place.  When we eventually met up with him the next day, he hadn't bothered raising an alert or even telling our parents, he just said 'I figured you would turn up eventually'.  Current day teachers - how well do you think that would go down now?