https://www.highland-kings.com/

Only 40 places available.

Anyone want to take a guess at the entry fee?

I was going to be flippant and say £10. But that's probably two orders of magnitude out...

Three

"Race like a warrior - Recover like a king"

Just how do warriors race then and also, to my knowledge many of the top tier kings were also pretty handy with a sword, spear, etc and considered to be great warriors in their own right?

£15,499

I knew it wasn't going to be cheap, but...

£15,499

Yeah but you get a watch that'll tell you whether you're having a good time ... 'tis a bargain.

'Luxury Ultra'

Well it's original, got to give them that.

Only £130/mile.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:38 am "Race like a warrior - Recover like a king"

That's the best tagline they could come up with for the money? Totally nonsensical! Sounds like Boris J wrote it. In fact he must have done because in the next bit they witter on about "unleashing" (TM BorisJ)

Still, all that cash will tick the economy over for another couple of microseconds I suppose.

Er, "it's just a bike ride"

No event for women then and it's men only?
A fool and their money eh

They even try to make the pissing rain something exciting and adventuresome. I am from Scotland, its not. Instead of racing like a warrior they could try fighting midges like a warrior, though i wouldn't call the armour ultralight. As far as recovering like a king, most Scottish kings ended up face down in a ditch, dead, with their best friends , English made sword in their back, not much recovery from that.
This company could make a weekend in a wetsuit with diahorrea look great.

Finding people who want to run an average of 30 miles a day and pay £15k for the privilege is quite a niche market, but fair play to them, just wish I'd thought of it. We could have marshaled it between us, I know a Michelin Chef and as we'd have £620k in entry fees I reckon we'd have a bit left after costs to divi-up between us

Ego polishing.
Sounds awful, and I genuinely mean that. Can you imagine the testosterone fuelled twattery on display.
It's so far removed from the reason I would ever want to engage in any long distance race. There is a roofer I work with occasionally, who ran the pennine way totally self supported. By that I mean he didn't re supply at all on route, including all food and fuel. He did it in under 6 days and grudgingly wrote a three page article in a local running club newsletter. Verses this bloody thing.
Leave them with it.

sean_iow wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 9:19 am Finding people who want to run an average of 30 miles a day and pay £15k for the privilege is quite a niche market, but fair play to them, just wish I'd thought of it. We could have marshaled it between us, I know a Michelin Chef and as we'd have £620k in entry fees I reckon we'd have a bit left after costs to divi-up between us

My thoughts too, not sure the running ultra market is ready for such fees but I could be mistaken!

Lazarus wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:45 am No event for women then and it's men only?
A fool and their money eh

Is it for men only? I wasn't taking the "king" part so literally.

Course you weren't you are a non woke man

OK, you can fess up now without any comeback or pisstaking - who's registered an interest then?

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 7:17 am Yeah but you get a watch that'll tell you whether you're having a good time ... 'tis a bargain.

No no, you've misunderstood Stu - it's a "sports wearable". You don't do anything with it. You just wear it.

And there we have it: "personalised videos and imagery to share with friends and family".

"luxury adventuring" - tautology.

Lazarus wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:45 am No event for women then and it's men only?
A fool and their money eh

Have you noticed how, ironically, their corporate logo is pretty close in design to the 'female' symbol (below left) rather than the 'male' one?

I guess that (sadly) there is a market for men with an excess of cash to do something mildly difficult whilst been fawned over by servants and trying to out-pi** some similar types.

Maybe its a scam. On the first day (after they have all paid up) they get abandoned in the middle of nowhere and all traces of the organisation disappear off the face of the earth.

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:17 am Only £130/mile.

But you get a "sporting concierge". Presumably, said concierge will be on hand to personally remove any slugs before they crawl into your mouth.

Ranulph Fiennes will be there. I don't know how to run but have registered my interest

Am I the only one who's hoping for a Fyre Festival type fiasco where a bunch of rich dudebros end up in the middle of nowhere with nothing but their overpriced lycra outfits and a bucket to sh@t in?