Also at the Celebrate Start Bay event last weekend was the adventure race organiser Endurance Life with the launch of their new Trail Blaze course which begins and ends at the Sea Breeze Cafe in Torcross; an electronic key is hired from the cafe which is then used at each of the checkpoints at intervals along each of the five way-marked routes which vary from 2 to 24 miles along the coastline between Strete Gate and East Portlemouth. On completion of a route the overall time and split times are automatically uploaded to a leaderboard on the Trail Blaze website and the time and current leaderboard position is sent to the individual’s mobile phone via SMS. The launch was far more low-key than planned due to the heavy storms that hit the Devon coast overnight making it impossible to erect the Endurance Life gantry which the trail runners were to set-off from, but the rain eased to a drizzle for the start at 11AM and the athletes set-off in on the inaugural run which included members of the British Telemark Ski Team who were in South Devon for a Summer training weekend.
