Legacy stuff

Pic James Prince

There was much talk of a Viking legacy after the reunion and this weekend we got some.

Saturday saw the second incarnation of the Viking Returns 4inns team. Justin Farnan's brain child and beginning to look like a case of riduclous over achievement. They (Richard Dixson, Justin, Jim Bunting AKA Sputnik and Ian Macklin) tore up the course on a perfect running day in an outrageous 8hrs 32minutes, finishing third. Non of them, with the possible exception of Richard would claim to be elite fell runners but they shaved 40 minutes of last years time, when I was hanging off the back most of the afternoon.

Pic Jim Bunting

They looked good all day I'm told, Ian Shaw missing them for most of the day as they were through  checkpoints before he got there, as he tried to cheer them on. Peter was there getting involved like days of old, admonishing them for not staying together as a group as they arrived at the Cat. Which has shut down! Hopefully only briefly, it was cold in the carpark and I had promised my kids chips. Ian reckons they can go faster as they were smiling at the end, he may have a point. There are a few others out there, who's Strava times are in danger of getting them into trouble.

This Morning a trophy for the newish 35K scout event was presented to both the committee and the event winners by Ian Shaw, who can still get in his uniform. I don't know where mine is but I can assure you it doesn't fit.

The trophy idea was proposed by the Four Inns Committee and finalised after a drunken evening in the Blessington Carriage. James Prince playing a blinder and giving up a fair few hours of his life to make what I am sure you will agree is a fine trophy and a lasting legacy to some of what the Unit achieved.

All in all, not a bad 48 hours for old men.

Here is video of the presentation Justin shot. Sound is a little flakey but you get the idea.
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