2025 LDWA 100 – Monday Morning and the End of the Event

Just to finish off my riveting series of posts about the LDWA Flower of Suffolk 100, I decided to just stay at the event all day on Sunday until the last entrant was in. One could say that I’m a loyal servant of the LDWA or, equally, one could comment that I was too tight to pay for a third night of hotels. It is true though that I like being at the event near to the end, it’s when so much excitement comes in and the entrants who have walked throuh two nights come in. Here’s the lovely Susanna who arrived to help in the kitchen, a particularly generous offer of help as she was going straight to Hay in the morning and her sleep was planned for the car journey.

The evening and early morning menu.

The tracker screen went off so we had to look at this all night. Simon and I didn’t say anything. It wasn’t quite what we had expected to watch.

A rather peaceful view from the roof of the sports centre that we were based in for the weekend.

A really rather lovely breakfast, many thanks to the chefs!

Richard fixing his computer.

Richard didn’t do a rota for the event, so I helpfully did one. I note Simon let him see it….

There aren’t many photos of the actual event as I moved to a role of welcoming entrants back in, but the media unit has lots of footage of this and will be producing numerous videos. As usual, the event is over-catered and that’s necessary to ensure that entrants don’t go hungry, but it also has the advantage of meaning that I had a second breakfast. Jayne did a marvellous job of dealing with all the catering, she did the event proud once again.

This is the hall where all the action was taking place just a couple of days before. It is strange to see a space empty, then so full of people and excitement, then empty again.

And Simon eating again.

Anyway, that’s mostly the end of my little series of LDWA 100 related posts, although I’ve recorded lots of footage and taken lots of photos for the media team, so there might be some more highlights to come. Thanks again to all of the volunteers, their contributions were very much appreciated and there are so many stories still to come from the event.