Joe Faulkner retrospective - The early history of the Great Lakeland 3Day

The first 3Day event was in 1998 and called The Great Lakeland Trail Race. By 2000 the name had evolved to The Great Lakeland Challenge and this name was used for a few years until we learnt that there was charity bike/trek event with the same name. Consequently, the new name of the Great Lakeland 3Day™ or GL3D™ was born and used from then on – it also described the event much better.