Ultra thanks

Sir, It is a pleasure writing this list. Because it has been a pleasure to bring an event to the Isle of Arran, meet so many residents, and to receive your immediate kind words of praise for the event. From our point of view the event was very successful. Now I don’t measure that based on the number of entries or the lack of injuries (though I am sure there are a few fatigue niggles – it was tough!) but based on the participant feedback. They loved it! We gave them more than two Ultras! We gave them almost four days of adventure tourism – enough time for them to sample ‘many of the many’ attributes of the island, and we look forward to coming back next year!

You may know that both the event and the participants made donations to the Arran Trust, and that the preferred charity for Rat Race Adventure Events is Children with Cancer UK, and for whom the participants raised a stunning £1M in 2017.

I would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone who helped in many different ways. I appreciate that I did not reach everyone as early as you might have liked, and that sometimes you gave critical opinion and comment. But that comment certainly gets my attention, and I am always, all ears. Thank you.

And lastly, someone that you might think would be less influential. I have probably been visiting Arran for 20 years. One man that I always seem to meet and have a chat with; Alastair Hendry in Glen Rosa. To me, he represents the assured friendliness that underlies Arran’s land and people. This was emotionally influential.

Yours,

Gary Thompsett Architect of Adventure