Paras 10 Endurance Race
What have I been doing since my last blog hear you ask, well following my 2nd knee operation in as many years I have been training..."ARMY TRAINING SIR!" Sempai Peter suggested we enter a team into the Paras 10 Endurance Race, a 10 mile race carrying a 35lb military bergen (thats 2 1/2 stone) across the army training ground in Catterick Garrsion, North Yorkshire. Getting a team together would be easy, there'll be plenty of volunteers in the club but I wanted to get in touch with an old associate of mine as I knew this event would be close to his heart, Gary an ex-military man himself and my old training partner and colleague from our CP days. Tony jumped on board straight away and Sempai Eugene was already in training in Okinawa, Japan.....Thats was it, we had our four man team and 1 reserve perfect. So training began, first off I needed to get back into running so myself and Sempai Peter started once a week with our old favourite six miler around Borehamwood, ...