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a little over three weeks to go before the
LAMM. Hope you are looking forward to it.
Let's bring you up to date with developments.
PLACES
ARE STILL AVAILABLE
Please check the team list to ensure that
your online entry has been successful. The
C course is full and the D course is almost
full. The last 20 teams to enter the C course
have had to be moved to their second choice
course. If this is not acceptable, please
contact us to receive a full refund.
We
do have the usual top Elite teams entered
but we wouldn't mind some new blood to give
them a hard time. We are introducing a new
cash prize this year for the winning Elite
team. This will be a handsome cheque for
£250 per team member.
PRIZES
Thanks to the continuing generosity of our
title sponsor, Lowe Alpine, the prizes will
this year extend down to 6th place on courses
Elite, A B, C and D. In addition there are
prizes for the first mixed, first ladies,
also the veterans prize. Only one prize
is presented per team. Also the special
prize for the first Elite pair of £250
per team member.
ACCOMMODATION
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
There is quite a lot of convenient bunkhouse
accommodation available in the area at a
price for B&B of approximately £14.
Details of the accommodation will be visible
on the website when the location of the
LAMM goes live on Thursday 12th June by
14:00hrs. We have arranged with the owners
of the accommodation for their details to
be removed from our site as soon as their
accommodation is full.
LATER
STARTS FOR THOSE RETURNING OR ARRIVING ON
SATURDAY MORNING
Start times will be provided at registration.
If you are registering on Friday and heading
off to find accommodation or not arriving
to register until Saturday morning you will
be given start times nearer to 10.00hrs.
SUNDAY
MORNING STARTS
This year we will experiment with a more
flexible start regime for the Sunday morning
and the procedure will be very different
in 2003. There will be a chasing start for
the leading teams, which will begin at 07.00.
This will carry on until 08.00 and the majority
of the teams will start from 08.05 onwards
at any time of their choosing until 08.30.
Day 2 start times for Chasing Starters will
be displayed on the results board when a
reasonable number of teams have completed
Day 1. Teams that retire or are disqualified
on Day 1 are very welcome to start Day 2.
Teams will start from a taped area close
to the mid-camp and all will use their Si-Card
to record their start time. Course description
sheets will be issued in the taped area.
Competitors will receive description sheets
just after they start. Any teams that takes
more than 9 hours to complete Day 1 will
this year be given the opportunity of starting
at any time from 07.00 onwards. We hope
that this will help to draw the slower teams
along and when the majority of teams catch
up, they will help to motivate the slower
teams. Also we hope that the range of finish
times will be compressed.
PLANNERS
UPDATE
The map is made and the courses are set.
Please see the Planner's Update on the Recent
News page of the website for more tantalising
information about the terrain and the courses.
You should take some of it with a pinch
of salt.
AN
INNOVATIVE SPORTS NUTRITION STUDY
Heather
Clark, a postgraduate researcher at the
University of Sheffield is undertaking a
study at a number of long distance events
this year. The title of the research is
“Eating and drinking behaviour and
hydration during ultra-endurance exercise”.
The supervisor for the project is Bernard
Corfe who has participated in the LAMM on
a number of occasions. In addition to the
LAMM, the study will also take place this
year at the Saunders MM and the RRTC 24
Hour Cycle Time trail. Please support this
project if you can and for further details
see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/I-M/med/human/nut/NutSurv.htm
COACH
TRANSPORT & CAR HIRE
If you need coach transport to the event
from Glasgow Airport or coach station, please
visit the Coach Bookings page on the website
to book your places. There will only be
one coach on Friday evening and so if you
are arriving early and would like to find
out who else is on your flight so that you
can maybe hire a car together, please visit
the Share Car Hire page on the website.
You cannot carry gas canisters on an aircraft.
Please contact Rick Houghton at Compass
Point (see below) if you would like the
right gas cylinders to be reserved for you.
COMPASS
POINT FOR LAST MINUTE PURCHASES
Rick and Angela Houghton will have their
mobile shop at the event. Telephone: 01253
795597 or email rick@compasspoint-online.co.uk.
Order online from www.compasspoint-online.co.uk.
EVENT
DRYFLO TEES & COOL DOWN CAPS
This year we will offer another a special
edition Lowe Alpine Dryflo tee shirt bearing
the LAMM 2003 logo on the breast. These
will be available in bluestone, white and
mosaic blue at a best ever price of £14.
A Cool Down Cap in Airforce Blue bearing
an embroidered 2003 LAMM logo will also
be available for £9.
The
garments can be purchased during the weekend
in the marquee and should these sell out,
a mail order list will be compiled and items
despatched by the end of July. They can
also be ordered after the event from the
online LAMM Shop.
TEES
& DRYFLO FROM 2002
We still have a number of LAMM2002 tee shirts
(£5) and Dryflo tees (£12) available
from the online LAMM Shop.
THE
EVENT
Maps (2 per team) are 29x29 inches and will
be handed out on the way to the start. Maps
are not waterproof so please ensure that
you take a 24x18inch map bag with you and
if the weather is really bad we suggest
that you save one map for use on the second
day. Also carry some money with you in case
you get stranded miles from the Event Centre.
MERCHANDISE
18"x24" map bags, red fine waterproof
pens, midge repellent, Blizzard Packs, videos
of Jura 1997, the handbook "Mountain
Navigation For Runners" by Martin Bagness
(at a special event price of £4) and
maps from previous events. Additional maps
from LAMM 2003 may also be purchased at
the end of the event.
For
more information please visit
www.lamm.co.uk. We'll see you all in
a few weeks.
Martin
Stone
LAMM Organiser
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