Training for Two

Why not? The blurb for the 2013 Cancer Council NSW Seven Bridges Walk said “The seven iconic bridges around Sydney Harbour and the walkways in between provide many spectacular views of the world’s most beautiful waterways”.  And indeed they do but Sal Hawthorne and I were too busy chatting for 5 hours straight.

Apart from this photo showing Anzac Bridge in the background, we hardly noticed the scenery. This will definitely not be the case when we do The big UK walk. But for now we wanted to see if we could motor along at a cracking pace – tick  – 5.4km an hour wasn’t bad considering we got caught behind some awful bottlenecks but the knees did begin to give way after the 4 hour mark – right knees and hips started to buckle a bit but we kept laughing and smiling and, besides telling you now, we think we got away with it. What a relief – we still have it sort of.

Note our new red Kiss Goodbye to MS hats. They looked great and our sincere apologies to the Cancer Council for flagrantly flaunting them but we are on a mission for MS at the moment. Thank you Cancer Council for allowing us to do the walk as part of our training.  Well we’re now showered and rested and 25kms better trained. If you can’t join us please keep up your individual training. One of our next challenges will be to do this distance again on consecutive days. But all in good time. Still 10 months to go. As the proverb goes “Rome was not built in a day”.