My big little boy is doing Ten Tors this weekend and I'm so proud...

[duchesse]

He's turning into a blooming tough little bundle of muscly boy- only 5ft4, but can carry his own weight and more. And he's walking 35 miles between Saturday and Sunday, with five other 14/15 yr olds and no adult present. snif

When I think that he was only about 60cm tall 14 years ago... and that he still can't work out how to get his school shirts into the washing so that he has something to wear every day, I sincerely wonder how he's able to do something like this.

saw it on the news earlier, hope it all goes well for him. I don't thik the weather is as bad to day as they thought is would be.

Weather's a LOT better than last year at least- they had to call it off halfway through because the streams were so swollen. I think there are teams doing it this year who didn't manage to complete it last time. The only worry this year is dehydration and heat exhaustion...

Good luck to him duchesse, so nice to read a positive post like this one!

Good for him, Duchesse. I hope one or two of my DDs will do it when they get to that stage - our secondary school always enters a team. It is a fantastic thing to achieve.

ooh I did 10 tors in 1986 ( a bad year) It was brilliant One of the most useful things I ever did as well still us those skills today Am hoping that ds1 will do the Jubilee challenge eventually. (and that ds3 will do the main event- I can't see ds2 doing it- not his bag, but you never know).

Good luck to him, it's a brilliant thing to do and such good fun.

I loved 10 tors, I did the 35 mile and 55 mile ones when I was at school. Instilled in me a love of the outdoors that still continues today

Well, his whole team got back to camp at just after noon. He's so exhausted he doesn't want anyone to talk to him, so we don't know anything yet...

The weather was rather good this year though, thankfully. Most dropouts due to heat exhaustion it seems.

I did the 35 and 55 milers too, years and years ago now. Still remember the taste of the burnt sausages and beans, and the extreme fear during the night that the hairy hand would get us!!!! But what an amazing exhilarating feeling, finishing it and having that much needed bath!!!!!!!

Well, he's talking again. Now trying to work out how to make his first million buying the £2 ration packs available at school and reselling them at just less than the £8 they cost on the open market. He'd better keep us in style when we're old is all I can say.

Well done to your DS, Duchesse.

Thanks Mumeee- he'd completely recovered by yesterday afternoon to the point of twittering (bragging?) that he could easily have done the 45 mile event. Apparently he does not have blisters (I'd know about it if he did- in fact, we all would...) unlike after the 33 mile training event he did a couple of weekends ago.