19th - 20th February - Progress

SARAH:

This weekend has been a busy couple of days for DecAid as a whole. Taking time away from their studies, the whole team spent the weekend focusing on marketing and media plans for their events for the next four months.

For the Munro Mission team this enabled us to work out how best to try and utilise the media to promote the challenge. Lucy Taylor and Sophie Archibald, our new media coordinators, will be solely focused on Munro Mission press, media contact collaboration, social networking sights and this blog. Hopefully this will mean we keep this blog fully up to date with our progress as we get closer to the start of the actual challenge.

We also took the opportunity to create our team program for the next couple of months, up until our next training trip to Scotland in April. Highlights of the coming months included; a team weekend running and cycling across Dartmoor, training with ultra-marathon national champion Vicky Skelton, as well as the weekly group training sessions.

As for the actual event, the route is being finalised which will allow us to identify potential places to stay during the seven weeks in Scotland. Support Team roles are being finalised and recruitment will soon begin. If you are a physiotherapist who would like to join the team for a weekend, please get in touch!

Meanwhile the search for corporate funding, sponsorship and our “Sponsor a Munro” campaign continues in our aim to raise £80,000 for the DecAid appeal.