Its official as of today I am the 6th member of the TORQ Trail Running Team!
I have actually known since last week and it may have almost not happened for me as I got an email from Simon one of the organisers for the team saying they had been trying to get a hold of me on my mobile and had left messages and to get in touch. I had changed my mobile number and had forgot to update Simon and Julie. I immediately called Simon back and conformed with him that I was still interested and available for the team and could commit to the Training weekend and a few other questions and he said they were still finalising the team but he would let me know in a hour or two the results of their decision. About and hour or so later Simon phoned me and offered me a place on the team which really surprised me and I obviously took without hesitation.
I have had to be silent and keep it secret until the official announcements on facebook etc and for those who know me that is a very hard thing to ask me to not talk about running. I did however manage to keep it quiet and Julie and Simon made me sweat by announcing me last!
The Team has been set up by Simon and Julie from Freestak who are social media experts and have worked with various spoting brands. They are both good runners and had an idea to put a team together of committed but non-elite runners, a pretty normal mixed bunch of people and offer them some of the support elite runners are used too such as kit, nutrition and other support throughout the year. This is a pretty cool idea and they put it out for all to apply, I was lucky enough to be shortlisted for one of the assessment days (see previous blogs) and had a great day at Church Stretton.
TORQ Fitness are the main team sponsors and will be providing nutrition advice and products throughout the year and this will hopefully include their wonderful gels in amazing flavours which are well worth a try. They even have rasberry ripple and bannoffe flavours.
Other sponsors will be involved but we don’t know who yet.
The Team:
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| The course route and profile
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