Please forget about teams, walking or running in the L D W A is concerned with you not you plus xxx, our events are desingned for the person and the challange is a personal one not a team challange. If you want teams stick to football and leave walking to the individual.

The idea of doing an event in a team seems rather appealing, actually. It's easy to forget how daunting the idea of walking 50 miles is to someone who hasn't tried a challenge event before, and who doesn't know anybody in the LDWA. If I was in my teens and wanted to raise money for my school or a good cause, I'd defintely think about getting two or three mates to have a go at something like the Poppyline 50. It's a good way of getting the LDWA known to a wider range of people. I think East Lancs deserve a round of applause for initiative!

Can't see the point of this myself. Why enter an event to do half or a third or a quarter of it? It only makes sense if you are doing it as a competitive event against other teams. Do we "do competitive"? Thought not.

Each team will be responsible for their own transport, all that is needed is one car per team, one person out, one gets in.

Just curious, what do you do with all these people who arrive at a checkpint to go no further ? Fleet of minibusses ? (I have to ask because I have a prior appointment on the Cheviot Challenge so cannot be there !)

The West Pennine 100 K welcomes entries from teams. All team members will receive a badge, certificate and a meal at the end. One tally will be issued per team, pass it on to a teamate at a CP, and so on. A team of three will do 33 km each, or a maximum of 10 will each walk one leg between Cp's. Ideal for introducing new people to the world of challenge events. August Bank Holiday, see you there.

An interesting idea. Running clubs have done the Peddars Way like that. I think for it to work you all have to be contributing to doing something; in the runners case it is to get a lower total time and all team members help towards that. Because LDWA members aren't competing (or are they ?) then I don't think it would work. Though the Tandem did (does ?). Two walkers did different routes to a common point and then finished together. Not quite the same thing. We do challenge walks as a team (one's tired, the other navigates; or the dog does it all if not a 100) but again not the same. I think that when I can't do all of a 100 I will walk it in two (or four) days, permissive bits excepted, after the event.

personnally i'd rather do the whole distance, the only walk where i have seen relay teams is on the round rotherham and these teams belonged to running clubs

Do you think more people would enter events if teams were allowed to share the distance? A team of two, three or even four splitting a 30, 50 or even 100 miler between them? I think some events already cater for teams, maybe more could offer the option. Of course I haven’t considered the implications for organisers, entry fees, catering, badges, certificates and results but it might bring some new people in, and might encourage them to try a longer distance next time. It would also let some of us continue to take part in events when our bodies are a bit past it.