Rich Wall-Morris' One Minute Interview

Nice to meet you Rich,

Likewise Terry,

Sorry about the wait too, Connie got onto the topic of newts and…

I know it’s a subject we desperately avoid at our team meetings,

Wise move. Right, so what was your motivation for joining the team?

I don’t think I’d ever thought about it before I was asked but as soon as I was it was another challenge I just couldn’t turn down,

It does seem like a special challenge! What makes you a good candidate?

Well they say it’s 8.7% physical and 93% mental…

Roughly speaking then,

Right, and our team may benefit from a bit of physical bolstering but I think we’re made of the same stuff as Scott and Shackleton when it comes to our minds.

Crikey, that is the spirit. Have you been testing yourselves as a team?

Not what you might call particularly tough tests but raising the entry fee is definitely simulating some of the gut churning misery that may lay ahead next year

But you will be training as a team though?

Yeah, we’re not expecting it to be easy and we’re putting together some fairly serious training events to prepare ourselves.

What will be your most enduring training exercise?

There a couple of biggies: We’ll be doing the 96 mile West Highland Way during a weekend in December and have been toying with dragging tyres along the Coast to Coast route which would take about a week.

A week’s worth of dragging tyres doesn’t sound like fun. You’ll be pretty good at planning for the expedition afterwards too.

When we’re racing we’ll be days away from civilisation so good planning is essential

You better not forget anything important then.

Tena Ladies are already packed Terry!