Jules Eaton’s Website

Why the TGO Challenge now?

In 1980, a young, slim ‘racing snake’, who was a keen runner, joined the Royal Air Force .  A capable distance runner, he achieved creditable results in a few double marathons and even found time to complete the Pennine Way.  Twenty years ago, he had the privilege of leading a team of RAF Regiment runners from John O’ Groats to Lands End, raising a wedge of cash for the RAF Benevolent Fund.

 

Sadly, the years are not kind to people who abuse themselves with running, soldiering, parachuting and generally carrying heavy stuff.  His legs started to protest more forcefully and, at the start of Operation TELIC in 2003, after a 6 month deployment, he was medically evacuated from Kuwait with Officially Dodgy Knees.  Four knee operations (and three spells in military rehabilitation) later, the erstwhile racing snake now has more in common with Douglas Bader than with Roger Bannister…

 

But the good news is that he can still walk, and he is working towards returning to some semblance of fitness, with the help of those great people at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court.   Mixing with the broken young men and women of our Armed Forces at Headley Court, it made him think about the debt of honour we owe.  Why not attempt the TGO Challenge whilst being sponsored by loads of kind and generous people in order to repay a little of that debt?

Skinny Bloke about to start the Mother Of All Long Distance Runs...

Now look at him —knackered and covered in cats.