If you’re thinking that things have gone a bit quiet on the no sleep ’til Brighton Trailwalker preparation front, you’d be both right and wrong.
On one hand, we’re having a bit of team walk mini-break, but these will resume with a vengeance in mid-May. Rumour has it that some team members have been walking their [...]
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Look what I found. My Trailwalker finish photo from 2003.
The photo shows Dawn, Fi and myself crossing the finish line (and cutting it fine) in about 29 hours and 12 mintues. Unfortunately, we lost a team member (Jean) along the way.
Yes - I am using the walking poles as crutches. The sunglasses are hiding tears [...]
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…our new team mascot
We don’t know his name, but he was plucked from a casting couch over 5 other promising hopefuls.
For an appropriate contribution to the No sleep til Brighton charity fund, perhaps you could name the duck! Let the bidding commence…
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Walks like team walk 3 make you appreciate how important your kit is. For example, your choice of footware could be the difference between Trailwalker success or failure. However, there are one or two bits of kit that endear themselves to you for other reasons or sometimes for no reason at all. So I thought I’d share [...]
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A tough walk, helped only by the humour and sparkle made so apparent by the photos in Viv’s post…
Following is the Elevation profile - felt much harder than I thought it would be!
Elevation Profile
Following is the speed profile, Noticeable is the early lunch at just over the 6km mark and me suddenly, rashly sprinting for [...]
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Muddy, wet and windy - sums up our third team walk. I thorougly enjoyed it though. Finally, we got a chance to try out our wet weather gear. Anyway, thought I’d report back in pictures.
(1) Nick and Alex get ready to ramble (2) shortly followed by another duck sighting:
(3) Don’t like the look of [...]
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