SPOON FEATURE 29
Lead Ambassador Jason Leonard has pledged his
support to the 2010 Four Peaks Challenge and will
be part of a four man team pitting their mental and
physical abilities against the four highest peaks in the
home unions.
Interview by Julian Crabtree
Jason will be ditching the suit for the Ed Jennings (left) will be able to give Jason The Spoon marshals are always ready with
driving gloves for next year’s Four Peaks some tips, after participating in 10 Four Peaks a joke and a smile to keep the spirits up
line? I’ve got no worries about the cooking,
I’m a dab hand with the camping stove and
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I can assure you that the driving
I know what it takes to keep professional
players on top of their game. But I’m most
is the most responsible and hardest
worried about keeping all the stuff in order
on the team bus – anyone who’s been on
part of the whole challenge
tour with me will know I’m not the tidiest
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of people. I can see myself scrabbling in
Gareth Chilcott
the dark for plasters and clean socks when
actually I’ve left them on the roof of the car quieter and they eat less too!” Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford to
when I drove off,” laughed Leonard. Wales legend Scott Quinnell agrees with aide him in his decisions, there is one man
Hidden away at a secret training camp Morris…well on one thing anyway! who Jason should be relying on too…Gareth
Jason is hard at work selecting his team for “I’m not answering any calls from Jason – Chilcott. Not an obvious cohort, but Chilcott
the Four Peaks Challenge. thanks for the heads up,” said the former No.8. knows all about the task facing Jason as he
With a selection process that makes the “I don’t think Dewi has thought this himself was the driver for a team that was
Apprentice look like Are You Smarter than a through properly though – having speedsters put together by Gavin Hastings.
Ten Year Old?, Leonard certainly has his work is one thing but what about Jason himself? “It was meant to be a British and Irish
cut out for him. And while we are not privy “He is definitely going to need to get team,” remembers Chilcott.
to who is on the short list yet, we can guess some sleep while his team are scaling the “Myself from England, Gavin from
who definitely did not make the cut. peaks – if he picks some slower and heavier Scotland, Mike Griffiths the Welsh prop and
“The perfect team for Jason? Well I hope forwards; well he’s going to be able to it was supposed to be Simon Geoghegan
he does not call me,” said Dewi Morris. get some more sleep in. The backs may be but he did his ankle in so Gavin bought in
“I think he will want some fit young lads quicker but you are going to need strength another one of his Scottish boys.
to get through this as quickly as possible – if here too – it’s not a sprint and we all know “I would say to Jason not to listen to any
I was picking a team I would be going for the story of the tortoise and the hare.” of these fit boys who say they do the hard bit
backs rather than forwards – they are quicker, Just as Sir Alan Sugar has the formidable running up the mountains.
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