Originally Posted by
Mike Jenvey
The days of "generous" PTIs (St Mawgan, 1977-ish), when the 1.5 mile run was about 2/3 of the required distance, & all down hill to the pub at the bottom. MT to take you back a few hrs later.
You RAN? Good grief man.
We did our run in Keflavik, Machrihanish and Gibraltar IIRC. PEd Staff were quite happy to take my signed record of the events. Perfectly fair, all based on previous 'best' performance.
If I thought Mr Curtis had had an extra couple of pork pies and a few fags his time got longer and reached 25 minutes in the end. For the odd (and I mean odd) racing snake I knocked a few seconds off.
The only sanction for not 'doing' the run was a threat to stop leave. Our crew was OK though as we did the run religiously (we prayed the pub was open) every quarter.