Brilliant news! We've almost reached our target of raising £1500 in sponsorship (£1,417 in the bank at the last count). So now we've upped our target to £2000.
This is great news for Oxfam and the Gurkhas, who'll benefit from the money. And great news for the team if they meet the new target - they'll get a free official Trailwalker t-shirt each and a commemorative team photo taken by the official event photographer!
Sunday, 8 May 2011
The team test walk the Downs
This weekend 4everfriends has been finding out more about the challenge in store for them and doing some test walking on the Downs.
Oxfam organised a get together for participants at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park to tell them more about the walk and to answer all those pressing questions. Helen, Heather and Alison went along for the team and found it really useful. A member of the Queen's Gurkha Regiment was there giving tips on endurance and safety and what to wear, to eat and drink etc, as well as other do and don'ts. A previous participant of Trailwalker gave a talk. She'd done the challenge eight years ago and only one of her team completed it. Her message was DON'T UNDERESTIMATE the challenge!
And while they were there Alison managed to fit in a 16 mile walk along the start of the trail, and on Saturday all three did a seven mile walk from Harting Down - now we know how steep (very) and chalky the Downs are; a good test of the team's fitness.
Oxfam organised a get together for participants at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park to tell them more about the walk and to answer all those pressing questions. Helen, Heather and Alison went along for the team and found it really useful. A member of the Queen's Gurkha Regiment was there giving tips on endurance and safety and what to wear, to eat and drink etc, as well as other do and don'ts. A previous participant of Trailwalker gave a talk. She'd done the challenge eight years ago and only one of her team completed it. Her message was DON'T UNDERESTIMATE the challenge!
And while they were there Alison managed to fit in a 16 mile walk along the start of the trail, and on Saturday all three did a seven mile walk from Harting Down - now we know how steep (very) and chalky the Downs are; a good test of the team's fitness.
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