1-Day Training March 14th Feb

The 1-Day Training Marches are about 18miles long and take around 6hours to complete. For most of the march you will march in-step with everyone else. These marches are training for up-coming events with the Wing Marching team, such as the Belgium Ijzer march, Nijmegen and Dodentocht (Belgium Death March). Flt Sgt Oldrey, Sgt Jones and myself, Cpl Ferrie all took part in this event, we also took part in the last one which was on the 24th Jan.
We set off a 9:15 from Hemel Hempsted and marched through the town out onto the surrounding roads. At about quarter way point we stopped for a 15min break to take on food and water. Our half way point was Ashridge monument, we had our lunch here. Flt Sgt Oldrey almost burnt his legs making his, which was highly amusing for everyone else. On the was back we took a different route back to the way we came, it involved marching up a small hill which left quite a few people breathless. We didnt stop again until we were 40mins from Hemel. We arrived back at about 3:10 safe and sound, and luckily dry. Overall everyone fully enjoyed themselves and are look forward to the next one on the 28th Feb.