Entries for the LDWA's newest 50 mile event, Cymoedd Sir Fynwy go live on Sunday 1st October.
The event is an amalgamation of the best bits of the 'Hundred That Never Was', the 2020 Y 100 Sir Fynwy the LDWA 100 victim of Covid-19, and one of the wettest hundreds ever, Valleys 100 that took place in 2014.
The event will be based on a figure of eight route and will start and finish in Abergavenny. The route will firstly enter the Black Mountains and follow Y 100 Sir Fynwy as far as Pandy. From there it will return to Abergavenny via Skirrid.
The second loop will enter the World Heritage Site of the Forgotten Landscape above Blaenavon and will visit sites that featured in Alexander Cordell's 'Rape Of The Fair Country'. Entrants will walk the Coity Mountain ridge and follow a long section of Valleys 100 route to Cwmavon before returning to Abergavenny via the Monmouthshire & Brecon canal.
Despite being a 50 mile event, we are giving people 24 hours to complete the challenge (there's some ascent and descent as we live in a bumpy area) and all entrants will be given a live tracker so that we know where they are as this is a remote route and we want to know that they're safe.
The following link will take you to the SI Entries page, but you cannot enter until Sunday 1st October.
https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?event_id=11807
If anyone doesn't wish to enter the event, but would like to help marshal, please do get in touch as we are always looking for people to help marshal the event. It's great fun and you'll work alongside wonderfully friendly people from the South Wales LDWA Group.
Our logo
https://1drv.ms/i/s!An1Q3byMDPEmgtUt0McNCUzUKcMJpg?e=L6aHsk has been created by Tony Alcock, our very talented South Wales LDWA Group artist and the hill on the logo is the Skirrid for the avoidance of any doubt and conjecture!
The dragon lives near Llanthony.
