Our third consecutive Fred Whitton Challenge. 112 miles through the Lake
District - hitting one of the claimants to the title of 'Britain's steepest
road' - the 1:3, mile-long Hardknott Pass at around the 100-mile mark...
This time, mechanical issues soon after the start conspired to ruin any
chances of beating last-years 7hrs 46 personal-best. The 8-hour target was also
seriously in doubt.
Having lost around 30 minutes on the road, the Swine Flew pig nosed over the
line in... wait for it.... 33 seconds under the 8 hours! And we thought the 7hrs
57mins in 2008 was a squeeker!
Wow! AR7E Adventure Racing division (aka Team 'Knot Sure') pulled a fantastic
result out of the bag at The Mighty Deerstalker '10k' (actually 13k+ through
rivers, bogs, fields, forests - you name it). Our man with the Swine Flew pig
mascot managed a (provisional results at time of press) 163rd out of 1221
finishers with a time of 1hr 46 mins 34 seconds. That's an hour longer than it
takes him to run the same distance on the road - that should give you an idea of
how tough it was! Pics to follow when the official snappers publish them.
In the meantime, *our* snappers have been playing with some new 'rig shot'
kit - first on a bicycle, but coming soon to a Westfield 7 sometime soon. We're
still messing around, but some
early shots can be found here:
News (March 14th 2010)
Gee! Don't time fly!
There's still plenty of salt down on the roads in Scottingland, so we've been
concentrating on MTB Orienteering (aka "Trailquest" up here) and
playing with various cameras.
The rebuild of the AR7E Caterham kicks
off following the cambelt failure of last year - many thanks to the NI Se7ens
for their time and efforts to date.
Another adventure-race - this time Team Knot Sure (aka AR7E) entered the
Men's Health Edinburgh Survival of the Fittest 10k adventure-race - a hilly
course with a physical challenge every kilometer. The shot below was at the
finish immediately after having scaled the Wall of Fame (!). Note that our Swine
Flew mascot is alive and well...
The AR7E stable all in one place - Westie meets Project Scope Creep on the
Tour in Toon Se7ens.net tour of the Scottish Borders.
News (September 14th)
After speaking to the ever-helpful Autocom support team, we've now managed to
get the new intercom working properly instead of triggering randomly on
wind-noise. The solution appears to have been to adjust one of the volume
pre-sets - the instructions didn't make it clear that this setting affects not
only the volume pumped into the headsets as ambient (wind) noise increases, but
also the vox trigger level.
The call to Autocom did validate some of the precautions we took when
building the new headsets though. More details here.
News (September 12th)
Preparation for the next Se7ens.net Tour7 production is well underway. We've
fitted a new Autocom intercom and plumbed in both a new Garmin Nuvi 765T satnav
as well as an iPod. The Vertex Standard PMR446 radio is also supported.
In addition to this kit, we've also fitted another of our favourite Trailtech
Vapor digidashes - many thanks to Roy Kerr for his continued support.
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