SSO team get started in Langdale
The motley crew...
As reported some weeks back the newly formed Saab Salomon Outdoor Team are shaping up for 2009 and this weekend saw the first team get together in Langdale, Cumbria, with stalwarts Jebby and Angela Mudge joined by new recruits John Heneghan and Anna Frost…
To coincide a snazzy new website has been launched aimed at keeping us all informed as they trot the globe. With blogs coming straight from the athletes themselves we are sure that it will be a busy site with traffic from those mountain and trail runners who feed off the words of star athletes in our sport.
Speaking from the first team camp team manager Tim Lloyd said:
The new team has some fantastic new talent and we are all really excited about the year ahead. Young guns Nick Swinburn, Ricky Lightfoot, John Heneghan and Anna Frost join the old hands like Rob Jebb, Angela Mudge and Rob Hope and Nick Sharp to create what we hope will be our best team ever. We are planning a busy schedule of domestic and international races through the year, for the first time we will be focusing on trail and mountain running
Head honcho Tim Lloyd
Our success over the past 8 years in Adventure Racing has largely been due to our running strength, so it is completely natural for us to move our focus closer to the running scene, this is something that we are very happy and totally comfortable with
It sounded like quite a weekend (“we also managed to battle the elements and make it to the pub on Saturday night!”) and the addition of some young blood over the winter will no doubt invigorate those team weekends and race trips abroad still further. Tim and the Saab Salomon team have always been known for their approachability and humble attitude towards their achievements and we are sure that as they carry on where they left off in 2008 MST we be able to bring you the inside line and keep you abreast of one of the best sporting teams in the UK!
