Miles Walked: 15
Time Taken: 3 Hours 49 Minutes
Aches and Pains: Back, Hip, Knee and Ankle
Yesterday morning I donned my kit, including my newly acquired walking bum bag, with water, banana, flapjacks and route map, grabbed my husband/ moral support/ training partner/ general rock, and stepped out of the front door with 15 miles of South Croydon countryside ahead of me.
I really didn't want to walk yesterday morning. I was generally grumpy and could think of a hundred and one other things I could be doing at home, rather than walking. But the realisation that in 4 weeks time I will have completed the biggest physical and mental challenge of my life to date, spurred me on. The furthest I have walked thus far was the 10 miles last weekend so to increase that by 50% to 15 miles was a big thing for me. 15 miles also breaks the half way barrier of our 26.2 mile marathon. Psychologically completing this one is a huge huge boost.
It was tough.
I got bored around mile 8 but it was nice to chat to James as we wandered. We spent some of the time praying. Walking and praying go well - as long as you keep your eyes open! We had a disagreement over the map reading - which I won ha ha ha!
Around about mile 9.5 as I climbed another hill I saw coming down hill on the other pavement two women, water bottles in hand power walking. As they got nearer I saw them smile at me. They spotted my Moonwalk hat and waved! It was such a lift to know that I am not alone, that on May17th 15000 men and women will be walking the walk. The energy lift from seeing two other people, out training on a Sunday when the rest of South Croydon seemed to be sitting down to lunch and a glass of wine, was great. The lift from 14 998 other people uniting to Beat Breast Cancer in four weeks time is going to be awesome.
By the time I went out to church in the evening my leg had seized up but sponsor form in hand, T-Shirt on and tub of homemade fudge as thank you gifts I collect over a hundred pounds worth of promised money.
Looks like there's no going back! Hannah x
1 comments:
hello Hannah
glad your training is going well.
Have you done your 20 miles yet?
Walked yesterday from Hampton Court to Battersea Bridge - about 20m - in 5.5 hours, which was very good.
We met lots of other moonwalkers all doing their 20/10 miles too.
One pair we met were having a peaceful lunch on a bench just on the edge of the river. Our leader doesn't allow such luxury - we had to eat on the move!
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