Customer Simon Hollis sporting his Advance Performance shirt during the Great Himalayan Running Festival
Customer Simon Hollis tackled the Great Himalayan Running Festival 2017
What’s that all about? Well you nip over to the Himalayas for a week-long celebration of running.
Apparently there’s a choice, run five full marathons on five consecutive days or run the entire 480km distance from Manali to Leh on the toughest & the highest highway in the world.
Simon opted for the five marathons in five days, and here’s what he has to say.
“I did the marathon stage, 26.2 miles a day for 5 days. We crossed some of the highest road passes in the world culminating in a crossing of TangLangLa the second highest road pass in the world at over 5300m above sea level.
“The weather was a big challenge with cool crisp mornings changing to freezing cold on top of the passes to scorching sunshine on the descents, add in the odd snow/hail storm and a whirlwind and you can see how difficult it was to plan.
“This is only the second year of the race and I am proud to say that I am the first ever Englishman to have a trophy!”
Simon’s Great Himalayan Running Festival finishers trophy
Simon, who’s been a customer at Advance Performance Peterborough store for many years, hopes to be a UK ambassador for future races – he’s waiting to hear from the organisers on that one.
For more race info visit www.thehellrace.com