Category: 2025 LDWA 100

We thought we should test some beer….

And a burger to reward ourselves from the lovely kitchen team. The marshals are always very looked after, just in case anyone is tempted to help at future events!

And then a quick walk to St. Andrew’s Church in Rushmere, but more of that another time, but it’s a fascinating building. We were lucky enough to time our visit with someone who volunteers there who was able to open the building up for us.

After all that walking, it was time for a quick snack.

And dessert.

Peaceful at HQ. There’s a slight IT crisis, other than my server, but Richard was busy solving it.

The end point being decorated.

The quiet kitchen, this will be rather busier later.

The tracking link for the event is at https://track.trail.live/event/flower-of-suffolk-100.

And getting ready for the second wave of starters, here’s the ever brave Neil.

Richard doing some more shouting.

Madeleine looking happy.

There’s not as many starters are midday, but there are as many as we had on the marshals’ walk.

The event security watching over Katie.

If anything needs fixing, there’s your man.

The excitement mounts!

And inside to find the tracking screen broken, but it’s all fixed now 🙂

And a video of the start.

Led by a samba band, the event begins!

It’s certainly a fun way to start the event.

And off they go. Just under 450 people in this wave, the first of three.

Despite his new slimline look, he’s still got a big booming voice.

Katie giving the welcome speech at the beginning of the event.

Richard taking a selfie now he’s lost weight.

Susanna.

Phoebe, the LDWA President, saying a few words.

Rob arrives at HQ, with Ken and Isobel helping him register.

Łukasz….

He’s hoping for a record time. We had a training session with pizza and beer on Monday night, so he’s well prepared.

Susanna helping in the breakfast area, lots of hot drinks and toast available for the over 500 entrants.

The set up arrangement for the bag drop.

There’s Peter in the middle, he’s always pleased to see me, it reassures him.

Everyone has been saying how thin Richard is, he likes the attention, but he deserves it after his massive weight loss. Mind you, it’s all uphill weight wise now.

Madeleine, our marvellous national chair.

A side view of the registration excitement.

After registration, entrants then get their tracker.

Jane and Sara helping with the tracker placement.

String!!!!

Entrants then scan here and their bag is taken to the breakfast stop. It’s a huge transportation effort moving 500 bags to the mid-way point.

Michael at the start on car park duty.

Richard is briefly allowed into the control room.

Patman (he likes this name) busy doing the PAT testing.

Jon and Simon at the helm of the control room.

Now it’s busier.

Still only half the entrants here though. The main start is at 10:00, but there are other start times of 12:00 and 14:00.