My last blog post was supposed to be about the Pilgrims Challenge but by the time I'd brought you up to date with events since I decided to do the MDS again I sort of ran out of time so this time I'd better get straight on with it...
In previous years I'd travelled to Farnham on the Friday and stayed in a B&B. This year the plan was that Perry - one of my future tent mates I'd met at Druids - would drive us there on Saturday morning. Unfortunately Perry was having trouble with his Achilles tendons and decided, quite rightly, it would be better to miss Pilgrims and do the MDS rather than vice-versa. This wasn't a great problem as I knew that a few other runners were staying the night at the Premier Inn in Aldershot so I booked myself in there and travelled on the Friday as usual. It turned out that the Premier Inn was not only popular with competitors it was also where the XNRG team were staying so I felt I was definitely in the right place - if only I always felt like that during their events...
