There’s Simon being thanked for all his risk assessments on the 100 (he’s the smug one in the background with the flash of green on his backpack). I interviewed him a few years ago for my series of ‘walking the 100’ posts. And don’t worry, he won’t mind me calling him smug 🙂
There’s Jane (in white) and Sue (in orange), both being congratulated for their help in organising the 100 event. They’ve both been very brave.
Jayne is heading the catering for both events and so she is one of two people who has already completed the event as she did it on the Easter weekend. Here she is being presented her completion certificate by Katie and also her certificate for finishing 20 events.
And as she has helped to organise the 100, so she was thanked for all of her work.
Katie has set the bulk of the entrants off, videos to come….
And ready to go…..
Here’s the food for the 52 people who are on the route, all very exciting. It feels like a lot of food and drink, but always best to have too much….
Thanks to Jayne for all her planning with the food for the event.
At Ipswich railway station waiting for the transport logistics team, also known as Richard’s car, to turn up. I was going to walk to McDonald’s to get breakfast but I genuinely forgot that this isn’t Poland and the breakfasts here are sub-optimal, so I needed another plan. And the £1 for a pastry offered by O2 Priorities has worked out nicely, here’s my chicken bake fresh from the oven. It’ll still likely be hot in about half an hour when Richard appears. Having some time here meant that I could request a chicken bake from the oven, but it’s currently hotter than the centre of the sun.
The main event kicks off at 09:00, so it’s all happening now. I might even provide some walking commentary at some point.
The sun is shining and I’m at Norwich railway station nice and early for a train to Ipswich so that I can help at the Norfolk & Suffolk LDWA 100’s event for the marshals that is being held on the first Bank Holiday of May 2025. The main event will be held on the second Bank Holiday of May 2025 and it’s a great opportunity to test things out for the main event. This is the event which I thought that it would be a marvellous idea to hold back in the days when I was chair of Norfolk & Suffolk LDWA back in 2021 and then I’ve promptly done very little in terms of actually organising the thing. I’ll be merrily posting this weekend about the event including riveting commentary on the LDWA, Richard’s skill at managing the desk at HQ and the media unit which I have an involvement with since I’m once again the national comms officer of the LDWA.
I do have a page about the LDWA 100 and I’ll be spending some time today fixing all the broken image links so the pages there magically all work again.
For anyone interested in tracking the entrants this weekend then go here.
