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We must be mad as the Trailwalker challenge means that we walk 100km across the South Downs in less than 30 hours! In fact, the route’s distance and elevation is equivalent to two and a half marathons and climbing both Ben Nevis and Snowdon! The event was originally started by the Queens Gurkha Signals Regiment over 30 years ago as a training exercise to test soldiers’ stamina and teamwork skills. Is it tough? Of course. Is it worth it? Absolutely.

As well as ending up with aching limbs, we'll also end up raising loads of money for both Oxfam and The Gurkha Welfare Trust.

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Bonjour à tous et merci de votre visite sur notre site de collecte de fond pour Oxfam.

Nous sommes deux équipes de 4 personnes et nous avons fondé l’entente cordiale afin de relever un véritable challenge: parcourir à pieds 100 km en une seule traite, en moins de 30 heures soit l’équivalent deux marathons et un semi-marathon !!!
Nous allons relier Petersfield à Brighton dans le sud-est de l’Angleterre. Cette marche qui existe depuis 30 ans a été initiée par le régiment de Gurkhas (des Népalais résistants pouvant parcourir des dizaines de kilomètres) et servait d’entraînement physique tout en testant l’esprit d’équipe. A notre tour, de vivre cette aventure. Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus >>>

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

A long walk in Bristol

28/02/2012 - 08:36a.m

I stayed at Neil's on the Friday night, and after an earlyish rise we embarked on our first organised walk. Neil had picked out a route that could be started from his house in Whitchurch, Bristol and that finished on the Clifton suspension bridge, Bristol.

Here are some of the photo's of the trip. Loz














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Let the training begin




So here we go 63 miles in under 24 hours... no problem!

My training so far:

Organised walk = 1 (Distance 15.21 miles, time 05:36:20)
Runs (From the 1st January) = 22 (Average distance 4.3 miles, average time 41:15)
I've also cycled 40 miles of the route a few weeks ago.

Definitely need to up my distances, and will aim to do 5 miles a night, 3 nights during the week, and a 10mile+ run at the weekend (could be substituted for a long walk or more preferable bike ride).

5 mile run tonight, hope the other members of the team are doing well!

I use the Runkeeper app on my iPhone to keep all my training data and will post them on here as a log.

Loz
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