A Dundee-based team laid down the gauntlet to other teams as they prepared to win the Caledonian Challenge, a 54 mile endurance walking race.
Cry me a Spartan are a team of four men working in the Finanical Services industry, three of whom are based in and train together in Dundee.
They are made up of Benjamin Elston, 23, a qualified ski and snowboard instructor. Laurie Don, 26, who has taken part in the Caledonian Challenge on three previous occasions and plays drums in two bands. Sam Ford, 24, who is a self-confessed gym addict and completed the Challenge in 2007, and John Gilmore who used to work with the others at the Alliance Trust in Dundee.
Six weeks before the race, Benjie told BBC Scotland Outdoors : "I think it's safe to say we are all fitness junkies; we all go the gym regularly and are pretty competitive. The team is very keen to perform well and hopefully win the prize of fastest financial services team."
Scotland Outdoors met three members of the Cry me a Spartan team in their office in Dundee's city centre, from where the team headed to a local park to show off their paces.
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Page first published on Tuesday 22nd April 2008
Page last updated on Tuesday 23rd December 2008
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