Category: LDWA

The safe return of Neil, my favourite entrant! I agree with him, I am an inspiration with my general bravery.

Simon interviewing the first entrant in, Terry Brewster who completed the event in 20 hours and 30 minutes. It’s fair to say, that’s rather good.

Pam and we’ve agreed that we’re two of the best marshals going, and also very humble.

Sarah modelling with the menu.

The menu…..

Hot dog and coleslaw, delicious.

And a sneak look at the control room in mid-flow.

I’m back at HQ now until the end of the event tomorrow and I thought I’d walk through the area that the finishers will walk through right at the end of their big adventure. The event ends with steps just to add to their excitement.

First aid will be at hand.

A quick bacon roll for breakfast. And another coffee.

Andy faffing with the external decorations.

Entrants, and entrants alone, will walk up the tunnel of love or whatever it’s called. Because every entrant wants to walk up some metal steps at the end of 100 miles. But we like adding some drama   🙂

The sun is shining.

Certificates from the overnight finishers.

And Simon back at the helm of the event, what could possibly go wrong?

It’s getting towards midnight and that means Richard and I go to our respective hotels for a little sleep whilst the titan that is Peter takes over for the night-time period. The event will be in safe hands! Here’s Richard training Peter….

For anyone interested (and I accept that this event hasn’t finished yet), the 2026 LDWA 100 will be held in Kent and it’s called the Hunnypot Hundred. As noted on the flyer, it has that name to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Winnie the Pooh.

Personally I’d like 100 miles of roads, but I understand that the vast majority of entrants don’t, so they’ll be pleased that 83 miles are on fields and in woods.

And as of 20:00 on Saturday evening, there are four retirees…..

We started with 497 entrants, 440 started at 10:00, 44 started at 12:00 and 13 started at 14:00. So 493 brave souls still out there.

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 🙂