WAN DAY RACING BACK IN SCOTLAND FOR 2009

Press Release / 17.07.2009

The "Wan Day" is back with a bang for 2009 as Detail Events return to the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh on the 19th September for the this year's premier Scottish adventure race. The price is held at Â£35 and the well established format remains unchanged. There has been a bit of a Spring clean on the website at <a href="#" onclick="newsitewindow('www.scottishadventureracing.com')" class="main">www.scottishadventureracing.com</a> and new event partners have been announced, including the Rat Race Store, Inov8, Sea to Summit, Adventure Medical Kits, For Goodness Shakes, Buff, Bridgedale, Adventure Sports Magazine and SleepMonsters.

If you are new to Adventure Racing in Scotland, then <a href="#" onclick="newsitewindow('www.scottishadventureracing.com/feedback-new.html')" class="main">go here</a> to read the great feedback from previous editions of this small but perfectly formed adventure.

The Wan Day is an adventure race that caters for all abilities. Offering 5 or 8 hours of multi-sport and adventure activity, participants run, bike, kayak and attempt special challenges, navigating their way around the course in the stunning Pentland Hills.

The "Wan Day" established itself as a firm favourite on the Scottish adventuring scene from the beginning and the Pentlands venue has been the stand out selection every year it has run.

Established by Detail Events in early 2006, planned and directed by John Laughlin over the last three years and partnered with excellent co-operation from the Pentland Regional Park, this cheerful event has always packed a real punch on action, value and scenery. Now, in 2009, John is off to pastures new and Gary Tompsett (Detail's haggard old hack) and Stewart Caithness (new youthful blood and long time Rat Race aficionado) are taking up the organisation of this classic day out.

<b>The Venue</b>

The Pentlands has a very special reputation as a tough but accessible range of hills close to Edinburgh and it is country the organisers know well. When you are on the northernmost hills, it feels like you could reach out and touch Arthur's Seat and Edinburgh Castle and the backdrop to those mighty hills is the City and the Firth of the Forth - that's a vast view.

Inland, the Pentlands look out over everything else, and are connected by excellent running terrain and truly excellent biking trails. After some time on the rough stuff, imagine a quick splash in sit-on-top kayaks in one of the lochs, throw in a few morale boosting and perhaps taxing challenges and then you have a complete and honest day (or half day) of hard work. That's the Wan Day adventure.

For 2009, the event base is shifting a little further north than usual, as the 3-times-used assembly and kayaking venue of Harlaw is undergoing some flood prevention work. This enables the event to focus on a very different assembly area and a very different kayaking experience, even nearer to the City.

Gary Tompsett comments: "Be prepared for a steep, intricate and thoroughly entertaining work-out. If you think you know the Pentlands, think again. There's more nooks and crannies than you can shake a stick at and if they are on a map or if you can 'follow the tape' then you're going in there!"