THE TEN COUNTRIES RUN
Club Triumph specialise in organising hard core touring events that test cars and crews to their limits. Their flagship event is the Round Britain Reliability Run, which is held every other year. This takes crews on a 2000-mile nonstop jaunt around Great Britain in 48 hours and while the sense of achievement afterwards is immense, I do liken it to banging your head against a brick wall in that it is lovely when you stop!
On those years when the RBRR is not taking place, the club have a newer tradition of staging the Ten Countries Run. This one is for relative softies as it takes four days to cover around 2000 miles and visit ten countries, with overnight hotel stops along the way. It is still not to be underestimated though, with ten hours of driving each day even if nothing goes wrong (and something invariably does go wrong!), and that’s before you add on a few hundred more miles getting to the start in France and home from the finish in Holland. However, for me what makes it so brilliant is that you spend much of that time driving up and down mountains on some truly awesome roads.
My brother Paul and I did the 10CR in my Herald back in 2017, while a bunch of American friends borrowed the Acclaim and took that. The Acclaim ran faultlessly of course, but Paul and I hit a snag in the Herald on Day 1 when the
