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Alex Grabs Gold in 100km Marathon

Alex Morgan beat the army at its own game when he smashed the civilian record in this year’s 100-kilometre Trailwalker race.

The Stoford project manager beat off the challenge of more than 500 teams to grab fourth place overall ahead of mountain-hardened Gurkhas in the annual stamina-sapping military based event held along the South Downs Way between Petersfield and Brighton.

Leading a new all-male team of three, ‘The Lost In Wanchai Boys’ - friends who had worked together in Hong Kong – Alex broke the civilian record by over an hour with the sensational time of 11 hours 27 minutes.

Alex, Rob James and Bill Nock also took three hours off the over-40s record time for the event, which was launched by the Queen’s Gurkha Signal Regiment in Hong Kong in 1981 as a military exercise in aid of Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust.

Taking advantage of perfect running conditions, with sunshine and a firm wind behind them, the team also reached its sponsorship target of £1,550 for the two charities.

Alex said: “We had aimed to run the 100 kilometers in under 12 hours so we were delighted with our success, especially as we managed to overhaul three Gurkha teams including the crack Gurkha engineers.

“Our tactics were to tag behind the leading teams and then see what transpired in the second half of the race. Shortly after half way we got wind of a team in front of us and suddenly it was red faces all the way as we went Gurkha hunting!”

Alex is a seasoned Trailwalker competitor having been a member of the winning mixed team for the previous two years.

But he faced an additional challenge after the race: “We decided to stay the night in Brighton, but we found our hotel lift was out of order, so I had to climb up four floors to my room.

“That was just what I needed after running 100 kilometres!”