On the 4th June I am taking part in a 65mile run for PROJECT 65.

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 airfeild in the heart of the Dorset countryside to their objective in occupied France: two vital bridges over the Orne River and Caen Canel now know as Horsa and Pegasus Bridges. The 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 14:00 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 ready to board the ferry to Normandy. After a 6 hour crossing to France, the running group will assemble into 6 Glider groups and run the final 3 miles along the Caen Canel towpath to arrive at Pegasus Bridge at precisely 0016, the very minute Glider no.1 crashed through the barb-wire defenses 65 years before.    

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