WyeForest 50 Route overview & Picture Gallery
The start was at the Whitecross School & Leisure Centre. All checkpoints after the first were indoors this year and there were several significant changes to the route: so if you had done the event previously it was important to read the route description.
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Philip Smith's view
Comments from the entrants
Thanks
very much for yesterday - really enjoyed (if that is the right word!) the event,
English (and Welsh) scenery at its best, great route with only a couple of small
route-finding difficulties, and great support and food at the checkpoints. Well
done
Iain
Prentice
A big
thank-you to the B&W group and all the other who helped for a very
enjoyable, well marshalled, walk.
I lost my mobile phone on the first leg and informed one of the marshals at the first CP. On checking in at the dinner CP I was told that the phone had been found and it was waiting for me at the next CP, just in time to phone my wife before she went to bed. I was very impressed with your efficiency, on top of having to look after the other 198 walkers. Thanks once again I am very grateful.
Colin
As
with all these events nothing happens without helpers...We did as always thank
them as we went along, but can you please once again pass on our thanks to a
very happy, friendly bunch of helpers that did everything they could to keep us
all on the straight and narrow. Enough food and drinks to keep us going, and the
route description was again spot on, bar the last 2 miles and then I am not sure
if that was us just being tired and stupid ??? Hope the walk turns out to
be the perfect last long training effort for the 100, not sure we can do another
50 and recover before the 23/24th
It is a very nice place in the world, as we said why travel 1000 of miles when
you can have views like we got on your door step.
Many
thanks for a really great event in a beautiful part of the country.
I
did get back to
Thanks
very much for the very prompt report and results sheet. The event was
superbly organised and is a firm favourite now for myself and my dog, Merlin,
who, due to his age, has probably now retired from future Wye Forest 50
events! He has completed three and deserves a rest!!!
Thanks again for your wonderful hospitality and organisation.
Just
wanted to say a big thank you to all who helped put together an excellently
organised and supported walk.
It is
the first time I have taken part in this particular challenge walk and must say
how impressed I was with the enthusiasm one was greeted with at every check in
point no matter what time of day or night it was.
We
walkers and runners were blessed with glorious weather which helped to make
parts of the event feel more like a walk though the Garden of Eden and then as
darkness fell the often lone light of a checkpoint twinkling in the near
distance provided more than a welcome relief with the added benefit of warm
smiles and good food to see us on to the next leg and eventually the finish.
Once
again my thanks to all who were involved in the support of the walk.
It was nice to welcome those from further afield; the
Home Counties, Midlands,
Many thanks for a great event.