Since winter is on the way myself and a good friend of mine decided to kick our training into gear, so to start we had a crack at "The Fan Dance" which is a slang name for one of the selection events that the SAS hopefuls have to endure. To save our knees we went lightweight in leggings and short shorts, rather than the 80 lb bergens and rifles!!
We started the stopwatch and began the inital ascent up to pen y fan that left us a little jelly legged, but raring to get to the halfway point at Taf Fechan Forest within the 1:30 hours mark.
We thought it only fair to knock an hour off the 4 hour time limit that the boys enduring selection have to meet, considering they're carrying the equivalent of a young teenager on their backs!
After hitting the half way point at 1 hour and 33 minutes, it was time to hall ass back up the roman road and jacob's ladder to pen y fan. Half way down the other side of pen y fan and corn du the time said 2 hours and 57 minutes. A sprint finish got us back to the final checkpoint in 3 hours and 17 seconds!
The snowy conditions gave an interesting terrain for running and our legs a good beasting!
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