After our mammoth challenge on Sunday, our mini challenge tonight was to walk 5 miles in less than an hour.....never done by me before but a few times by personal trainer! In fact, our remaining training walks are just 3 & 5 miles, all to be walked speedily......
Unfortunately, I haven't felt well for a couple of days & in fact, hadn't eaten today at all as I had felt a bit sick, think I may have picked up bit of a bug. No fuel for me then. But, I was still looking forward to the walk.....
We actually haven't walked just a 5 mile one before so we decided to do 6, purely because we have a choice of routes to do. No High Road for us though, I think we have had enough of that one!
I really enjoyed the walk, it was great & I had a big spring in my step. We walked the 5 in 56 minutes & the 6 in just 1 hour 7 minutes....we normally do 6 in about 1hour 20, so we really did walk faster. The route was easier though, no hills & nice & straight.
We met the Felixstowe runners on the final mile & many of them said "well done" or "good luck" as we passed each other, it was lovely & I just kept saying "aaahh isn't that lovely".....oh dear, I can see that I will get emotional on the big night if people encourage us along the way.
I know that I am going to find the whole day very emotional anyway & just have to go with the flow of my emotions. We have trained so hard for this & it means so much to us all.
I have thought about so many things over the past few months, not least the approaching tenth anniversary of discovering I had breast cancer, which in itself is bringing so many emotions to the surface.....best take lots of tissues & avoid mascara.....I don't want that wonderful moment of crossing the line immortalised in a photo of me with mascara streaks down my face!! However......don't laugh, but lippy IS going in my arse bag just for that very reason...that very special photo!!
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