FEATURE GS TROPHY I wasn’t meant to be on this trip. Up until just a few weeks before, I knew very little about it, but then the call came, and the torment set in. Could I just up and vanish from work, from home, my kids and wife for 12 days straight? Well, it turns out I could… just a few weeks later, my plane touched down at Tirana Airport, the capital of Albania, the host nation of the event’s 1300km endeavour. The next question was if I’d be able to go the distance and not look a proverbial nob in the process. It was a tall order, made more unlikely by the fact I’d not so much as sat on a GS for more than a year, with my last…