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NEWSCAPTAIN POWERSTo raise funds for wounded and injured soldiers through Help for Heroes,Captain Simon Powers is preparing for his Battle Back 1000 challenge. BattleBack uses sport and adventure training to aid the recovery of wounded,injured and sick personnel. His challenge is pretty awesome - a 1000 milejourney across Britain, which includes a 20 mile swim, 870 mile cycle ride and140 mile run. That’s a triathlon and a half! Diabetic Captain Powers says: “Ihave named it Battle Back 1000 as this is my own way of battling back for allmy injured army colleagues who have given so much for their country.” Theultratriathlon event will take place over a 14 day period starting on 2nd June2012. Visit www.battleback1000.comGEAR AND GOINGS ON PERFORMANCE RACES RUNNERSARTIC RUNCompetitors from 16 different countries headed to the North Pole for a very coldrun. Scottish doctor, Andrew Murray was named the winner of the UVU North PoleMarathon and became the first Britain to win the race in 4:17. Not only didparticipants brave up to -40°c temperatures and blizzards, they ran on aprecarious surface of ice floes just 2-3 metres thick.