Elantan's enjoying her excellent adventure

Karmacat

:bdaycake: Happy Belated Birthday!


I'm confused! I thought your thread was one I kept up on, will have to do better - hope it was a good day, anyway.

elantan

peb wrote: »

Eerrm - what do you call a long walk?

I cn now easliy manage up to 9/10 miles in one day but struggle to keep it up for long.

This holiday I did 16 miles in one day which felt a great achievement but left me only fit for sitting under a tree for the next day....

So do you wear crocs to walk in? do they give you enough support? Do you wear solks with them?



Oh - and have you decided if and when and how to do the course and has your son heard anything?

Is that snough questions?

it's a tad longer than 9 miles peb were going to do john o groats to lands end but we arnt going to do it for a nother 4 years approx so that will give us time to get in shape and raise the money needed

the crocs are for a change to be honest i think our feet will be needing a break from walking boots lol

your more than welcome to join the band it will be fun and we will be organising it between us ...a challenge of a life time

elantan

thanks Miz and Karma for the birthday wishes ....Miz remember you have 4 years to get fit for this challenge we aint doing it next year so why dontcha join in

peb

Okay - that is a fair walk (gulp). What sort of milage per day are you looking at then? I do have a friend who has done this but long before I knew her - I think she got a leave of absence from work....

Any news from your son?

elantan

nothing from son i could scream he slept yesterday arrrggghhhhhh ...i have to keep remembering what he does are his life choices and not mine to make but boy i wanna go grab him and shake him ...

i think we are thinking about 25 miles perday over 6 weeks approxx nothing is set in stone at this time and we are just kinda chucking ideas into a pot at this stage have a good think about it ...it is going to be a challenge of a life time and something you are gonna be proud to have done ...your more than welcome to join in you would be a great help with the person you know that has done it already you can pick her brains

peb

I think that 25 miles a day (day after day) could be over ambitious; just going by my reading. I remember Bill Bryson commenting that someone had attempted 20 plus ,miles a day and had burnt out after 5 days; it could of course be that the terrain is a lot easier here. I'll talk/e-mail my friend and see how she did it. I do know it was organised for a charity so that they had all the support teams to deal with clothing and taking them to accomodation etc.

Sons ! I would have though he would be anxious to know unless it is that he is scared that they will say "no" and is postponing hte agony...

elantan

i think you could be right re the son ....

that would be great if you could talk to your friend an get some back ground info every little bit helps ...and seriously have a think about doing it

System

Hi elan , happy birthday for yesterday. And I'll have some of that John o Groats Lands end as well If Im still up here. Hope you are well Len x

elantan

thanks lenny ...oooo and your interested nice one

boredofbeingathome

Hi el, just bobbing in after cake stint..and thanks for screaming along with me..arrrgghhh! Final push in the morning and it will be finished..thank God!
Nice to see there is a bunch of intrepid DFW who want to join in, the more the merrier i say especially if we can pick brains.
catch you late tomorrow evening, as will be well shattered by then!