UNDER CONSTRUCTION— March 09

This website is still under construction…..

training having to take precedence over

playing on the web!!!

 

 

However, it will be updated upon our return to include photographs of our endeavours and hopefully a race diary.

 

In the meantime you can follow the links below for further information;

On 26th March 2009 the two old fellas of Odyssey  II - Team Rudd will be leaving the UK to take part in the 24th Marathon des Sables.  This is a 6 day 151 mile running race (made up of legs of 16, 21, 24, 50, 26, and 14 miles) through the Sahara Desert and is generally considered to be the World’s toughest footrace.

Every year around 800 competitors from around the world set out to run the equivalent of one marathon a day for 6 days over open desert, rocky ground, sandy barren wilderness and mountainous dunes, in temperatures which reach 120°F/48°C.

The organisers provide us with only a meagre ration of water each day and a series of carpet bags sown together, thrown over two wooden poles, and loosely described as a tent. in which eight people will eat, sleep and snore for the duration of the event.  We must carry everything else that we may need including all of our food rations, which we must prepare ourselves, which is probably why Mike lost so much weight during the 2006 race!! There are no washing facilities, no toilets and no change of clothes, something that we doubt will bother Paul in the slightest!

The members of Odyssey II - Team Rudd are brothers Mike Rudd (Barrister) and Paul Rudd (Ex Royal Navy Submariner and sometime builder of Toyota motor cars). 

 

 

Sponsorship

 

We are taking part in the race in order to raise money for Cancer Research UK.  We will suffer long hours of enduring pain and the sponsorship that you give will provide us with that extra surge of energy, allow us to draw up from the depths when we at our lowest ebb, and help us through to the finish.  Every penny counts and in these difficult economic times please give what you can, however little.  This charity should be important to all, especially those families touched by cancer and there is no doubt that every donation is welcome. 

 

Sponsor Team Rudd:

 

JustGiving Website—

 

 

Pledge by email: mike.rudd@easy.com

 

 

 

Follow the Progress or Contact Team Rudd

 

The Race starts on 29th March 2009 and finishes on 4th April 2009.  Between those dates and from 28th March 2009 you can both track the progress of the Team or send emails to the Team, which in 2006 were very gratefully received.  You will have to follow the links below and seek out the section that says “write to competitors/ecrire aux concurrents”.  You will need the race numbers, described as DOS— Paul DOS 730), Mike DOS 731.  We also have a Race Blog that we hope to update daily but that will depend upon one of the Team getting to the bivi each evening in a fit state to negotiate the French keyboard in the email tent!!

French Organisers Website:

 

 

British Agents:

 

 

Team Blog:

 

 

 

 

 

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