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| The grand Start of the Peak District 2024 Mighty Hike |
The Peak District Mighty Hike took place starting and finishing at the lovely showground in Bakewell on Saturday July the 20th - we had the odd shower at the end around 5:30pm for about an hour - otherwise it was perfect Hiking conditions around the route, and a great crew of Mighty Marshals and volunteers.
I also had cunningly roped into help with finish line fun the commentator - to not only commentate and read out names - but also to phrase and ask participants as they came in if they were going to "line up together", "hold hands and cheer" , "give the crowd a big wave" - all that sort of happy suggestions - which meant we had a load of great moments to capture on camera and make the best memories for the participants. "Making people happy through sport photography" is our core goal, and if that means we need to get a bit of a helping hand from someone with a microphone - then the happier everyone will be - and what we know for sure is that happy fundraisers raise more money !! So - bug thank you to Joe Carswell on the microphone for all his help with that !
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| Joe giving it full beans all the way as the final few participants make a Mighty Finish |
Full disclosure here - it's just as well the Premier inn decided not to let me into breakfast at 6:59am so I sulked off to the room, made a rubbish coffee and went to my location earlier than planned by 40minutes - because - lo and behold - the very very fast lead walkers were coming through as I grabbed my bag from the boot... Fortunately though I found a lovely dell of an old mill pond sort of spot with a sluice gate by the river and settled in for the morning - with some nearby duck patrols, ducklings, and a few moorhen chicks bobbling about through the day, as well as the odd 1000 mighty hikers to share it with...
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| double thumbs and a wave for the win. I was sat in the nettles on the right with mosquitos for company all morning.... |
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| Great Might Marshalling |
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| Happy high arms to make the magic moments a memory - only the two phones in sight |
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| Joe, fully armed and legged and microphoned up... |
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| Everyone lovels a team photo |
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| The fundraising wave of send help ! |
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| they were talking politics, or one of them farted |
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| no surrender ! |
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| mighty marshalling with a method |
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| Your Mighty event crew that got you back safe |
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| got to love a hug |
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| rehearsals for their Abba tribute act were work in progress |
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| Only the one stick between two, he used it on the downhills |
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| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers / Hikers |
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| You will finish this with me... |
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| In the distance we can see a lesser spotted Engagement dance, favoured by the male of the species, often after significant endurance and persevearance |
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| Mick is proud of you ! |
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| Matching Hat bonnets for the team look |
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| Bring me sunshine ! |
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| Suddenly her sticks vanished and her arms rose spontaneously into the air |
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| Solid mighty hiking into the half way lunch stop |
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| YES !! |
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Remember - heads up with your arms up, especially if you're in the middle !
Top team effort across the line together |
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| Joe did an exceptional job on the microphone |
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| A quick check in with the timing team and Joe at the finish - almost forgot to get a finish photo sorted ! |
So a lovely day at the Peak district, rounded off with a Sunday on the way home at the National Athletics champs in Birmingham where eldest Daugther came 6th in the country, not to be outdone the other Daughter came 4th in the country in her event of choice a week later... so a weekend of very proud Dad !!
The next events coming up are the Adur 5k Swim on the 17th of August
Or the Arundel Scouts 10k with unique access to the castle keep on the route - usually closed to the public
and then we are back into the Mighty hike schedule- which if you haven't done one - you really should !
This weekend has been the first one without an event for me and the team since March the 17th, motivation and keeping the team going has been the main management goal these past few weeks - and so trying to recover and keep things real, manage the kids through the holidays who seem to have regressed to being zombies, but at least the Olympics is a good watch and I'm sat here typing this from the Brighton and Hove AC Clubhouse - home club of Amber Anning - who goes for olympic 400 gold on Friday at 8pm - so give that a watch ! Good luck Amber !
So, hopefully a little bit of a break apart from the Adur swim and get ready and reset ready for the final push through September for the Mighty Hikes, and then the small problem of - what do we want to do for work in october, november and december - any progressive event organisers who want to make their Participants happy - then please drop me a line / just reply to this email !
Until next time, can someone fix this pesky achilles of mine, it really doesn't want to heal...and I'm getting holiday fat..
Anthony
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