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 The longest and most difficult Highland March to date finished in Inveress Caledonian Thistle's 'unjust' relegation from the Scottish Premier League. As is tradition throughout Highland March, the troops have put together a diray of events, which will certainly provide a valuable insight into just what these guys and gals have achieved.
Kilmarnock to Inverness - 184 miles in 7 days!!! It's just a walk!!!
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Yet another Highland March passes as this 6th event came and went in no time at all. Possibly the most successful walk to date saw records broken left right and centre, from the number of new recruits for an End to End to the number of people to complete any leg.
Not many blisters were on show, as the SPL Split (or Splitus Daftus) threw up the shortest walk to date of Falkirk to Inverness. Despite this being done the other way round on the Inaugeral event, Falkirk Football Club have since changed location of their stadium to the other side of the town - meaning an option to hike over the Ochills and a third chance to take in the Pass of Glen Tromie.
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Training for this one simply couldn't be the same as previous years, where personally, virtually zero training had been completed. I knew from the offset that we could potentially have a massive walk for the 5th Highland March (HM).
Since the completion of HM4 I had moved north of the border, cut down on my smoking habit and even better regulated my intakes of alcohol. I had therefore gained myself a firm footing to actually do some training, and it proved to be a god send.
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Team Yompa Diary
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HMV – Onwards and Upwards
I can’t believe I’ve been doing this Highland March thing for five years – doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? Once again the HM bandwagon was in full swing leading up to the off with all the troops busy(ish) with their respective training programmes.
Once again, however, the SPL guru’s don’t seem to be as keen as us when it comes to organisation as their wretched ‘spilt’ gets in the way again. With the top and bottom six sides in the SPL being settled after 31 games (usually takes 33) it still took these Muppets four days to come up with the remaining last two games for ICT. This brought about yet another walk away from Inverness but a new destination for the HM’ers – Love Street, Paisley.
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 "You've Got Egg On Your Shirt"
Here we go again with another fun packed episode in the life of a 'long distance' Highland Marcher.
The SPL fixture list once again gave the route planners a major headache because of the 'split' in mid April. A further pain for the planners came about however because the season ended a week earlier than normal to enable players to be released for the World Cup.
To accommodate that, the SPL computer penciled in a mid-week fixture in the final week of the season. This meant that, if the HM was to continue with its original format, we would have to walk from Wednesday to Saturday (or Sunday depending on a top six finish - complicated innit?). ICT didn't really help matters either as their quest for a top six position faltered at the last hurdle - had they secured 6th, we'd have had an extra day to make the distance. But not to worry, you do what you've got to do and get on with it!
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