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Sun run for Shady
Glade
Gazette & Herald
www.gazetteandherald.co.uk
2nd March 2006 pg 17
DEFENCE worker Nick Davies will be helping children at Lyneham
Junior School keep safe in the sun by competing in the gruelling
Marathon
de Sables, described as 'The
Toughest Footrace on Earth', across the
Sahara, in April.
Mr Davies, 38, of Webb's Court, Lyneham, works for the Ministry
of Defence and will jet off to Morocco for the event on April
6.
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He will be attempting to raise about £6,000
through the run to help the school provide a new shaded area
for the children. Mr Davies attended the school on Monday
27th February 2006 to talk to pupils about the race. He will
have to run a total of 155 miles across the Moroccan Sahara,
while carrying his own supplies. He has six days to complete
the race, with the longest day involving a run of 50 miles
and he will have to face 15 miles of sand dunes, which can
rise to 300ft high. Mr Davies, who has run six London Marathons,
said he became interested in the race after hearing a presentation
on it by Dr Mike Stroud, who has been on a number of famous
expeditions with Ranulph Fiennes.
He became involved with raising money for the school as his
wife, Sara, is a governor there. "They said what we need
is a parent or someone associated with the school who is doing
something mad and my wife put her hand up and said she knew
someone," he said.
Mr Davies said: 'It's not all sand dunes. There's a lot of
hard ground, with rocks that can break your ankles and lots
of hills. I think they've deliberately made it so you have
all the landscapes you would see in the Sahara." |
