Hey everyone, it’s been a little while since we wrote our last team post and we have various news we wanted to update you on.

Team News

We have had a few changes to the team with drop-outs and withdrawals meaning a few lucky people on the waiting list have now been offered places.

We can now welcome James Ellis, Carl Howells, Martin Bacon and Simon Prytherch to the 2018 team although we are sorry to see that Marco, Jez & Roz were not able to take up their places.

As at the 31/5/18 The 2018 British Team is now comprised of 24 runners as follows;  Stephen Walker, Ian Thomas, Cat Simpson, Matthew Blackburn, John Melbourne, John Stocker, Nathan Flear, Alastair Higgins, Cameron Humphries, Dan Masters, John Volanthen, Russell Tullet, Paul Ali, Matthew Brand, Laurence Chownsmith, Peter Summers, Steve Gordon, Stuart Shipley, Stuart Wilkie, James Ellis, Carl Howells, Martin Bacon & Simon Prytherch. Fabio Rizzo Calcio is also a member of the British Team although he is noted as an Italian entrant. (Yes, we could do with some more female entrants next year).

With payments now due then we are not expecting many (if any) changes from this point so we are sorry to those people who are still on the waiting list.

Sponsors

We would like to thank all of our sponsors who have kindly agreed to support the British Spartathlon Team through financial support or provision of services. The 2018 Sponsors are as follows:

The Ultramarathon Running Store, a specialist ultra running store have been a long-time supporter of the British Spartathlon Team.

We are once again pleased to welcome Oyster Wealth, who offer financial advice and services as a team sponsor.

We are pleased to welcome a new sponsor, Peak Pinole who supply energy bars for ultra athletes.

Endure Communications (formerly It’s All About the Story) are once again providing press services to the team.

Race Drone have once again agreed to sponsor the team through the supply of GPS tracking devices during the race.

We would also like to thank Mark Burnell for developing our new kit designs. Mark has done an excellent job in helping design our kits over the past few years and his work is one of the key reasons our team look well turned out on race weekend.

Kit Design

Now the really exciting news! We are pleased to unveil the 2018 Team Kit design as follows. We have once again followed the usual format of a white technical top for the runners and a red technical top for crew and once again includes the “Lion Logo” the team’s adopted motif.

2018 Runners Top Design

2018 Crew Top Design

2018 Buff Design

Hopefully, we have once again ‘freshened’ the kit design but retained some familiarity and consistency with previous years which was our aim.

We have raised sufficient funds through the kind donation of our sponsors to provide some kit to each of the runners (including runners tops, crew tops and buffs) although there will be an option to purchase additional items if you wish and we will be emailing the runners directly in the next week or so to organise this.

In addition, we will also be organising a British Spartathlon Team banner which we can use each year as part of our team photo shoot and perhaps even use at the end of the race as a point where British Runners and crews can congregate. We would like to thank Rob Pinnington, Ian & Gil Thomas and John Volanthen for agreeing to make a financial contribution towards this item.

British Team Banner Design

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Paul, David, James, Rob & Darren.