A useful site for anyone looking to attempt the 3 Peaks Challenge
Monday 21 September 2009 by James Bing
For anyone else interested in attempting this challenge a website we’ve found very useful is:
3 peaks challenge
Cars: check. Route: check. Drivers….?
Friday 18 September 2009 by Chris Rudd
In a scene similar to the dreaded playground picking of teams, it has been left to me to allocate folks into cars so everyone can start to prepare in more details.
Spotted…..10 crazy walkers in the middle of the night!
Thursday 17 September 2009 by James Bing
Last night saw the first of two planned night walks in preparation for our challenge. The 3 Peaks Challenge requires the of whole of Snowdon and at least an hour of the Scafell decent to be completed in complete darkness. With this in mind we planned a local route which allowed us to get used to navigating in the dark and using our head torches without blinding the other members of the team.
Walking paces, average speeds…preparing for the 3 peaks challenge
Thursday 17 September 2009 by James Bing
To get an accurate gauge of our walking pace (and therefore our chances of completing the challenge in 24 hours) we recorded data from last night’s walk. We’ve calculated that we will need to walk at an average pace of 3mph plus allow for an additional 10 mins for every 100m of elevation climbed. Last night we managed an average speed of 2.7mph and climbed a total of 121m meaning we are about on track. Let’s hope we can maintain this when faced with three huge mountains!
Let’s set the record straight on the Three peaks training!
Wednesday 16 September 2009 by Toby Wright
Ok, so our Three Peaks training walk didn’t go quite as planned last weekend, if you call climbing the wrong mountain a failure. But, there were some positive outcomes as well.
Yes we got lost, but check out where we got lost…
Wednesday 16 September 2009 by James Bing
Unfortunatly our attempt to climb Scafell failed due to a minor navigational blip. Guess the mistake…. Shortly after realising we had climbed the wrong mountain we came to the conclusion that the mountain behind us must have in fact been Scafell and that we had taken a minor wrong turn which had lead to a small diversion up a relatively steep hill…
The 3 Peaks Challenge team think BIG to raise money for Save The Children!
Monday 14 September 2009 by James Bing
As I mentioned last week, Rose and Colin managed to get their hands on some giant 3kg KitKat’s from their friends at Nestle.
We work all day and we train all night!!
Monday 14 September 2009 by James Bing
With less than 2 weeks to go till our 3 Peaks Challenge attempt we are in the process of making sure we have done all the preparation necessary to maximize our chances of success.
Dress down day – final amount announced!
Monday 14 September 2009 by James Bing
I was amazed to hear that our dress down day at the Reckitt Benckiser site in Hull raised a massive..
Mountains….cunning things
Monday 14 September 2009 by Chris Rudd
I will let my colleagues explain the chain of events in more detal….but on my arrival at work this morning I discovered that the Scafell training walk didn’t go as planned….
