When?

So when will this be? The event is organised to take place between International Day for Biological Diversity (World Biodiversity Day), on May 22nd, and World Environment Day, on June 5th. These are two important days for red panda conservation. Red pandas are an endangered species, the only living species in the genus Ailurus. The primary necessity for their conservation is to protect their habitat - a beautiful environment in the Himalayas that I was fortunate enough to visit last year.

The cloud forests of Eastern Nepal

For the challenge, you are allowed to split the 13 miles 192½ yards over the two week period and walk or hike them if you prefer. However, I will attempt to run them all on the first day, Friday 22nd June.

I will cover the location of the run in more depth in another post, but living inSumatra, the daily temperature is normally about 35°C, so I will make my attempt in the early morning when the temperature will hopefully only be in the mid to high 20s. The current forecast is for thundery showers ... whilst I usually welcome the cooling effect of rain when I am running, showers here are somewhat heavier than those experienced in the UK. I'll do my best not to let "a little rain" stop me, but it's another potential hazard.

If you want to know exactly when I'll be running, my planned start time is 5 am local time (GMT +7). I'll try to log my run on GPS, so if that is successful I'll upload the data to my Strava a couple of hours after that.

As I may have mentioned, it's a bit short notice. I only decided to do it today, so I have had less than 48 hours to prepare - I'll discuss the implications of that later ......

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