{"id":3126,"date":"2017-08-13T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T08:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2018-05-14T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T21:50:45","slug":"frustration-and-fun-at-the-great-wilderness-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/13\/frustration-and-fun-at-the-great-wilderness-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustration and fun at the Great Wilderness Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not every day you get offered the chance to have a ride in a helicopter through a remote Highland glen. That even put a smile on my face after finally accepting that illness would force me to postpone my attempt at the 25-mile run at the Great Wilderness Challenge<\/a> until next year.<\/p>\n

I had trained well but picked up a bug in the week before the event and left it until the last minute to pull out, optimistically hoping I might make a miraculous recovery. It wasn’t to be.<\/p>\n

The reward for accepting the inevitable was the offer of a ride in the chopper to the middle of the course to photograph participants as they came through Carnmore. Now that I could cope with!<\/p>\n

Here are the results of my efforts on Saturday (click on any photograph to see a larger version)<\/em>:<\/p>\n