Starter...in nick of time

HITCH-HIKING through the night and catching just an hour or so of sleep is hardly the ideal preparation for a 24-hour trek.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Jun 2010, 11:30 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2010, 11:50 BST

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But that's exactly what happened to Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop, a member of the Los Tidiots team, after his car broke down on the way to Skipton from London on Friday night.

Mr Buchanan-Dunlop was forced to hitch lifts and catch buses through the night to make the 8am start on Saturday, eventually embarking on the 62-mile walk after just 90 minutes' sleep. "It was a real endurance thing," he said after finishing at about 9am yesterday. "It was okay, although I was basically hallucinating at one point. I was asking the others if there really was a dog eating buttercups in the field. Apparently there wasn't."

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Team mate Nick Worsley, a barrister from Leeds, said: "It was brilliant, a really good laugh. You keep yourselves going through sheer bloody-mindedness and lots of verbal abuse. We'll definitely be giving it another go next year."

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