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am signed up to do this in a couple of months. am a little scared. hoping that our team will be able to walk the 100kms in 26 hours... although i will be happy with anything under 30.
first little training session tonight. then starting hiking most, if not all, weekends until august.
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You're a triathlete! 100kms in 26 hours is a doddle! ;-)
hahaha. i hope so! i think it's more just that it's my first really long event that leaves me a little nervous. but super-excited too! if i can do this, i can do anything.
btw - i really am starting to think that anyone can do anything in the world, if they want it enough, and give it a go.
Me too rubies, me too.
I have a couple of friends who do it
They get sore feet and all and it sucks when they're in it but they love it
These guys aren't the fittest buch either, not completely unfit but not athletes
yeah. i think that will be me. all sports like this are crazy at the time. and the moment you have done it (well, maybe a moment or two after that) it feels amazing. which is the addiction, i think...
i have walked 75kms since last sunday, to start training/preparing for this. i am footsore. and most other forms of sore. but it's good to train now. will make the event easier at the time.
only 6 weeks to go. have been sick and have lost a lot of fitness. am doing lots of stair climbing in preparation. short hikes have been going ok, but we haven't really tested out any longer hikes yet. only been night hiking once. getting very scared now, but also looking forward to the challenge (and to having weekends when i don't have to be out hiking too).
don;t over train! I did, and fucked my knee a week beforehand, only made 90km before bowing out in excruciating pain.
Dear Shines,
I have logged in to make my weekly contribution and wish you all the best for your 100km stroll tomorrow.
tomorrow? as in TODAY???
GOOD LUCK SLR!!!
Good luck darling!!
She's probably 20ks in by now...
I wish I realised this yesterday so as to wish her good luck....hope you're going well rubies!
awww - you guys are awesome! thanks for all the well-wishing. i completely appreciate it.
as i spelled out in the triathlons thread i had some big knee issues through the event, and had to pull out at the 50kms mark (having been hiking on a sprained knee for 20kms by that stage). having said that, the whole experience was incredible. i can not wait to do it again next year - and have spent the morning 'debriefing' to work out what did and didn't work in the attempt this year. my amazing teammates all made it to the end - despite having mince meat for feet - and i was so very proud of them. felt pretty good with how i was travelling apart from my knee too - and happy to know that if it wasn't for an injury, i was on track to make it to the end.
i can not talk up the event organisation enough. brilliantly done. the hardest and best event i have ever been a part of.
Sounds like you put in a fair effort regardless rubies...well done! Glad to hear you'll be lining up for another go next year & congratulations to your team.
yeah smoke - my team were amazing (first time i have ever understood the joy in being part of a team really). and i am still pretty proud of how i was going. apparently i had been grunting with pain a lot - most steps i took - in the section before i stopped. i had not even realised i was. so i think it was the right decision. i just had the second-guessing that comes afterwards, wondering what i could have done differently to change the result.
but i did learn so much from the event, and i think that next year, it will be a whole different ball-game. now i am just itching to get back out and exercising, which is a good way to finish.
I know that feeling....every single time I've failed to finish. I guess it's part of the learning experience.
yeah definitely. mr shines tells me he thinks there is no way i could have kept going, given that i could barely walk... but i think that you always judge yourself in hindsight. at the time i pulled the pin, and in the hours afterwards where i could not even move my leg a few mm without pain, i knew it was the right choice. it's just once the pain has subsided that the questions are coming up.
but i just found the wild endurance event, which is another 100kms event in the blue mountains in may 2010 - so that might be a good next challenge.
and it is nice to know that not making goal is different to failing, and that deciding to take on the challenge again is probably something of a success in itself.
righto - looks like we might be fielding two teams next year - as there is growing interest from our mates about oxfam, after seeing our efforts this year. and we might be looking at organising a trip to kokoda as well. excellent. from little things big things grow.
shit. we are doing this again, and it's on tomorrow. yikes!
crossing fingers i get to see the end from the right side of the track this year.
Good luck fiend
cheers yo