On the 4th June I am taking part in a 65mile run for Project65.
Why ? I hadn't planned on doing any runs this year but as my mum phoned and asked me I thought I best oblige. I feel very privileged to be able to take part in this event. My stepfather Bill is an ex para-trooper and has not been too well recently, this event has really fired his imagination and he has already supported me by paying my entrance fee.
Both my parents were in the forces and my stepfather's brother was sergeant navigator who died in the war so I am delighted to be involved in the D Day commemoration.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morningWe will remember them."
What's it for ? "PROJECT 65 is commemorating the 65th Anniversary of D-Day by organising an historic 65mile ultra-run following the route that men from 52nd Oxf and Bucks LI, under the command of Major John Howard, took from a small airfield in the heart of the Dorset countryside to their objective in occupied France; two vital bridges over the Orne River and Caen Canal now known as Horsa and Pegasus Bridges. This operation was the very spearhead of the largest invasion in history - D-DAY.
The PROJECT 65 'Run to Pegasus' is being designed to replicate this remarkable mission man-for-man as each of the 200 runners will be representing a member of the Coup de Main force of 1944. The run will begin at 1400 on Thursday 4th June 2009 and follow a route through towns and villages including Ringwood, Lyndhurst, Southampton and finally Portsmouth. The runners are expected to arrive in Portsmouth at 1200 on Friday 5th June 2009 ready to board the ferry to Normandy. After the 6 hour crossing to France, the running group will assemble into 6 Glider groups and run the final 3 miles along the Caen Canal towpath to arrive on Pegasus Bridge at precisely 0016, the very minute that Glider no.1 crashed through the barb-wire defenses exactly 65 years before"
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Training: As I have only two months to get in shape my training will be quite challenging to say the least - you can follow my training on my blog - http://thestrawhouse.weebly.com/project-65.html
