September 2010
22 posts
1000 miles!
We reached the 1000 mile point today at Tompkinsville, Kentucky only 2350 to go! Thanks to the National Guard Armoury for taking us in and the Tompkinsville Police Department for looking out for us, we’ve had a great evening. Kentucky is surely the home of barbeque and hot sauce.
Gumpathon Concert
For anyone in the Nashville area on 29 September members of the Gumpathon team will be meeting runners at the LP Field side of the Shelby Pedestrian Bridge at 6.15pm to run across the Bridge and up to 305 Broadway, the Cadillac Lounge where country and western singer Matt Steel will be holding a concert at 7pm for The Gumapthon. If you want to run join us at 6.15pm if you want to come to the...
Jules Blog
Teresa woke up before everyone as usual, well before dawn to cook up breakfast, eggs and oatmeal - good job.
The weather much cooler today, I’m sure its going to be a more enjoyable run for the lads.
As the much tighter morning routine kicked off through 11 pairs of bleary eyes, Teresa and I packed up the remants and set off for our daily XX mile drive, my turn today.
We stopped off at...
Toady's Blog
My name is Paul Shearsby I’m the Advance Car Commander, I have to be in front due to the lack of concentration by newly named Kester ‘Sicknote Subway’ Jackson - only joking.
Well we are now at the end of Day 16 and the team are doing OK, Sicknote Subway is on the mend too! Its been an interesting one today. My oppo Mark ‘Rammers’ Ormrod and I have an Anti-Dog Runner...
Our med kit has arrived!!!!
Finally our med kit has cleared customs and caught up with us. Huge thanks must go to Kully at SP Services, Rick at Rescue Tech Wales and Yaniv at Sea and Air International who all helped us with what turned into an epic. We are now fully equiped to deal with bumps, bruises …. and Kester’s back.
Mark's Blog
Today was our first full day of running in Kentucky and according to the weather report temperatures were to exceed 95F …. and they did!
As well as the team covering the mileage there was a Sorghum Festival in one of the towens we were passing through called West Liberty. The team were kindly hosted by the Mayor Jim Rupe, Sally and the local media were there too. It was nice to meet you.
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Crazy's Blog
YO YO YO! Cpl Lloyd ‘Crazy’ Fenner here reporting from West Virginia USA the Gumpathon.
My task is to write a blog for the website, How am I feeling? What is it like? Best Bits? Worst Bits? Funny Bits?, And everything in between. Where to start? How about today? It’s day 13 and we are approximately 670 miles into our journey. I’m on my rest day which happens periodically for all the runners...
Jamie's Blog
So day 13 now down, only 51 days to go, that’s 7 mountain ranges 3 time zones and 4 deserts…. nearly there! Ha! So guys to say the last few days have been emotional is an understatement! We hit the Blue Ridge Mountains on Saturday… wow all I can say is horrendous. Imagine you see a giant hill stretching as far as the eye can see you, the temperature is between 90 and 110 degrees the...
Kester's Blog
Hi folks this is Kester member of the support crew, aka ‘subway’ due to my propensity to require more sandwiches than the runners. I am the driver of the rear vehicle, a Land Rover Discovery. My role is to transport and protect the runners. This involves spending 10-12 hours driving behind them at 5 mph every day and a need for absolute precision, accuracy, intense concentration and...
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Day 8 - Problem Solving!
The time is flying by and we are making good progress with our running. We are slowly getting into a regular routine and I will write more about that this evening. I just wanted find the time to send some heartfelt thankyou’s from all of the team to the people who have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to help us with our challenge.
The last week has been a bit of a learning curve...
Day 5
We’ve just left Annapolis and are heading to Washington. We will we be visiting the British Embassy and the Pentagon, then on to Quantico.
Heroes Concert
We hope you all saw our film at the Heroes Concert today, if you did please support us by texting GUMP to 70800. Day 3 just completed so 175 miles down 3356 to go!
NYC
Thanks to the British Consulate in New York for their support and guidance.
Yet another thank you - everyone is being so supportive. Dario Cantatore very kindly took the amazing pictures of run start for us www.dariocantatore.com
Day 2 cracked... And Collingdale hospitality...
Day 2 saw us chewing up the turf in and through Trenton, NJ and then into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 3 states already served, only another 13 to do. The run through Philadelphia was particularly interesting and the support for us has been overwhelming thus far. People honking their horns, clapping, cheering and in true Americdan style, Whoop Whooping too…. We love the USA alright!! Each...
Day one in the bag...62 to go!
Well avid Gump fans, we’ve nailed the first day. The send off was awesome, a big thank you again to all of our VIP’s, Sponsors and of course Matt Steel and his band for supporting us on the start of our epic run.
The runs went well for each of the individuals and we expect to have the whole routine battened down in a few days or so. Achilles and Damian had a good run out too and as...
BBC Breakfast
Setting out to run 3,500 miles across the United States would be a daunting task for anyone but for Royal Marine Mark Ormrod, a triple amputee, it is an even bigger challenge.
Mark - who was badly injured in a landmine explosion in Afghanistan - will be joining four British and American servicemen in the charity run. The team will cover up to 23 miles a day, while Mark has a target of a...
Less Than One Hour To Go
In less than an hour we begin The Gumpathon, cannot begin to tell you how excited we all are, nerves, adrenalin……it’s been an amazing week getting all the final preparations in place – but the fact that my dream is about to become a reality, am almost stuck for words. Before we start – I must thank everyone who has helped get us here to the start line…to our incredibly generous sponsors thank you,...
We're here & ready...
Ok so we’re in New York baby! After the full VIP treatment from Virgin Atlantic, including a jacuzzi, steam room, hair cut, massage and 4 course meal followed by the ever so hungry press snapping at us as we got on the plane, we landed 7hrs later in JFK with the all the crew and passengers clapping and cheering us off! We felt like rock stars for the day (Just another day in the Royal...
The Gumpathon Starts Soon
Only 3 days to go until run start, if you are in New York on Friday 10 September come down to the USS Intrepid at 7.30am to see the guys off.
Gumpathon Training
The team will be running around Cental Park today, Monday 6th from around 1pm EST.. Come and join us!
We've Arrived
The Gump team have arrived in the US! A massive thank you must go to all at Virgin Atlantic for looking after us and all of our kit, including Achilles, we know he was quite a challenge for Virgin Cargo who have been brilliant. Tony and his crew were fantastic and we even got to visit the flight deck. We also have to say thank you to everyone on flight VS009 who gave us donations towards the...