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The 30 Miler
The 30 Miler
Me and my oppo who are both Marine Cadet Instructors are wanting to do the 30 Miler for charity and need the route used can anyone help us with this ?
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harry hackedoff
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Sound advice there, TK. I`d take it if I were you 
We do the thirty every year down here, but sadly, our route doesn`t involve the use of Dartmoor.
It does involve a thirty mile trek in the outback with temperatures in the high thirties, at least four sorts of highly venemous snakes, several deadly spiders and an ex turkey snurgler
Thirty miles is still thirty miles mind
. RMA Poole do it over two days which is an eminently far more refined method. 
We like to get rat faced, stay up all night spinning dits and telling each other ever-more unlikely trapping tales before hitting the track at 06 00 still shite-ers
I`ve usually cracked at least twenty miles before I sober up and realise where I am
We`em doin `er again come September. Bring yer own Oggys if`un youm wants to join us
We do the thirty every year down here, but sadly, our route doesn`t involve the use of Dartmoor.
It does involve a thirty mile trek in the outback with temperatures in the high thirties, at least four sorts of highly venemous snakes, several deadly spiders and an ex turkey snurgler
Thirty miles is still thirty miles mind
. RMA Poole do it over two days which is an eminently far more refined method. We like to get rat faced, stay up all night spinning dits and telling each other ever-more unlikely trapping tales before hitting the track at 06 00 still shite-ers
I`ve usually cracked at least twenty miles before I sober up and realise where I am
We`em doin `er again come September. Bring yer own Oggys if`un youm wants to join us
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harry hackedoff
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We use an incentive training aid when we do the thirty.
It`s simple but rather effective!
We walk out into the bush, away from any form of human habitation or thoughts of rescue, for a distance of fifteen miles.
There is no option but to walk the fifteen back. Genius or what
To date, everyone who has attempted our thirty miler has completed the course!
Here`s the start, and they`re offski
Fifteen out and it`s your choice Lofty
It`s simple but rather effective!
We walk out into the bush, away from any form of human habitation or thoughts of rescue, for a distance of fifteen miles.
There is no option but to walk the fifteen back. Genius or what
To date, everyone who has attempted our thirty miler has completed the course!
Here`s the start, and they`re offski
Fifteen out and it`s your choice Lofty
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This link might help you suss out the ground you have to cover.
www.royalmarinesigs.co.uk/walk2006/wlk1.htm
Some Owd n Bold Oppos of mine did it a few weeks ago. Not in Eight hours mind. Took them two days what with all the pubs, icecream vendors and suchlike they kept bumbing into. Age range was from forty odd up to seventy odd. Once a Marine always a Marine.
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www.royalmarinesigs.co.uk/walk2006/wlk1.htm
Some Owd n Bold Oppos of mine did it a few weeks ago. Not in Eight hours mind. Took them two days what with all the pubs, icecream vendors and suchlike they kept bumbing into. Age range was from forty odd up to seventy odd. Once a Marine always a Marine.
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England`s green and pleasant Ste, remember it well It`s amazing how you forget how green Devon is 
I see Eddie M was there I won`t nick any phots Eddie Good on em all I say.
Thirty miles is still thirty miles. The average time for our thirty is around the ten hours mark.
At fifty six, I clocked ten and a half. One of our younger Members, Taff Williams pissed it in six hours forty Paul P was just over seven hours. Clubs Rea age sixty seven is about the same time as me That`s not bad going for a bunch of old reprobates, hey?
Last year we had a few Para Reg with us and one Mad Mick Betheridge managed just over the eleven. He is Seventy Six Years Young and gained a Black Belt in Karate three years ago together with his fourteen year old grand-daughter
That`s what it`s about Ladies. Never ever give up.
Act like you mean it girls, like it`s the real thing.
Because hey, guess what, life is for keeps, it`s not a rehearsal.
It`s amazing how you forget how green Devon is I see Eddie M was there
I won`t nick any phots Eddie Good on em all I say. Thirty miles is still thirty miles. The average time for our thirty is around the ten hours mark.
At fifty six, I clocked ten and a half. One of our younger Members, Taff Williams pissed it in six hours forty
Paul P was just over seven hours. Clubs Rea age sixty seven is about the same time as me That`s not bad going for a bunch of old reprobates, hey? Last year we had a few Para Reg with us and one Mad Mick Betheridge managed just over the eleven. He is Seventy Six Years Young and gained a Black Belt in Karate three years ago together with his fourteen year old grand-daughter
That`s what it`s about Ladies. Never ever give up.
Act like you mean it girls, like it`s the real thing.
Because hey, guess what, life is for keeps, it`s not a rehearsal.
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When I was in training (1973) you got your Green Lid at week 14 (No Royal Marines Commando Flashes mind) we didn't do the 30 miler. Instead at the end of Commando Training we did this final Ex called Quantum Leap.
Quite a few blokes of my age will back me up on this but it was a right bugger to do. From the minute you arrived at RV1 you were running around Dartmoor like blue arsed flies for hours on end wearing CEMO (complete equipment marching order) looking for a Navy Blue Landrover with a Plastic Missile stuck in the back (I never saw the bloody thing!).
Them days we had to use the kit we were issued with. No bergans just the shite 58 pattern webbing (Designed by some sadistic Lesbian Female so I heard!). Manys the time some poor NOD would forget to clip his large pack to his CEFO (complete equipment fighting order) and basically brain himself when he leaned forward or dived to the deck during Section Attacks!
Instead we did this thing called the eighty minute double. Wearing CEFO (30lbs of weight), plus your SLR, DMS boots and Putties, your gladrags (denim jacket, denim trollies, and your pussers PT top, a Rugby shirt. Red, white or blue). Just like the Nine miler but instead of quick marching up hills and running down them and the flat you ran for the entire eighty minutes.
You would get back to CTC and instead of stopping at the Sports Field Carpark to square yourself away prior to marching though the maingate they would keep you going straight into CTC. Normally you did it in in less than eighty minute by the time you had arrived at the maingate so the troop would run down to the Bottom Field and countermarch until the eighty minutes had been hacked. Quite a few blokes cracked up because of it and therefore had to do it all over again the next day.
This period of no 30 milers lasted I think from around about 1971 until 1976 then the 30 miler was reintroduced back into training. As it was when I joined 40 at Seaton Barracks the unit would wait until they had enough blokes and then send us all of to do a 30 miler! And later when I was a member of one of the training teams I had to do the bloody thing anyway!!!
How long's a piece of string?
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When I was in training (1973) you got your Green Lid at week 14 (No Royal Marines Commando Flashes mind) we didn't do the 30 miler. Instead at the end of Commando Training we did this final Ex called Quantum Leap.
Quite a few blokes of my age will back me up on this but it was a right bugger to do. From the minute you arrived at RV1 you were running around Dartmoor like blue arsed flies for hours on end wearing CEMO (complete equipment marching order) looking for a Navy Blue Landrover with a Plastic Missile stuck in the back (I never saw the bloody thing!).
Them days we had to use the kit we were issued with. No bergans just the shite 58 pattern webbing (Designed by some sadistic Lesbian Female so I heard!). Manys the time some poor NOD would forget to clip his large pack to his CEFO (complete equipment fighting order) and basically brain himself when he leaned forward or dived to the deck during Section Attacks!
Instead we did this thing called the eighty minute double. Wearing CEFO (30lbs of weight), plus your SLR, DMS boots and Putties, your gladrags (denim jacket, denim trollies, and your pussers PT top, a Rugby shirt. Red, white or blue). Just like the Nine miler but instead of quick marching up hills and running down them and the flat you ran for the entire eighty minutes.
You would get back to CTC and instead of stopping at the Sports Field Carpark to square yourself away prior to marching though the maingate they would keep you going straight into CTC. Normally you did it in in less than eighty minute by the time you had arrived at the maingate so the troop would run down to the Bottom Field and countermarch until the eighty minutes had been hacked. Quite a few blokes cracked up because of it and therefore had to do it all over again the next day.
This period of no 30 milers lasted I think from around about 1971 until 1976 then the 30 miler was reintroduced back into training. As it was when I joined 40 at Seaton Barracks the unit would wait until they had enough blokes and then send us all of to do a 30 miler! And later when I was a member of one of the training teams I had to do the bloody thing anyway!!!
How long's a piece of string?
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If i have alook round, i might have a map with the grids on for the check points i can tell you off the top of my head one is Scorehill gate, the second is Merripit which sits just forward of Fenworthy Forest, the third is a veiw point / car park just off Bell Tor, the fourth is a small car park after a cattle grid cattle grid NW of a small village called Holne and the final one is Dartmoor training center just next to Prince Hall.
