2 weeks until London to Brighton. AHHHHHHHHHHH. Me and Ruth are both nervous but really excited as well. We followed the isle of Wight challenge and we saw that people were like I enjoyed it but I am in so much pain. So me and Ruth are planning on doing things some things to get us through the walk. First things first we are taking pain killers with us and taking pain killers before we start to cover us. Ruth is going to wear knee supports so that she is prepared. We are going to make sure we are rested and carbed up for the walk and we are going to stay at a consistent pace. We are going to put blister plasters on our pressure areas before start. We are going to listen to music and we are going to relax and actually try to enjoy it. I want to get to the sleeping rest point by 8:00pm or 9:00pm so that we can get a good nights sleep between day one and day two.
Day one I believe we can be done in 12 or 13 hours with our pace improvement and the adrenaline will power us through plus when we went walking at the beginning of May we did 15 miles in 5/6 hours which is good considering it was a heat wave so our pace has improved and we didn’t ache yet we stopped because it was really hot. We have now officially practised in all weathers from Sunshine, raining and cloudy and we also practise under different foot paths and conditions so wet mud, dry mud, concrete, sandy paths and grass. Day two will be harder because we are going over the infamous south downs in the last 20km. Running joke is we are going to use personalised tops/jumpers so that they can identify the bodies at the top of the south downs. So day two we can done between 12 to 14 hours just because we will be stiff.
I do have some personal goals for the walk and hear they are.
- Be at 50k within 10 to 12 hours
- Get over the south downs alive
- Be at Tulley’s farm around 12 to 13 hours.
- Not have a mental break down
- Work through the brick wall
- Enjoy it!
Moving away from London to Brighton we have also been doing smaller walks and we are getting to know the route for the Louise Smalley Walk even though some parts of the route description was misleading at times and we went over a style to look at a quary and then left said style.
Next time I post on here I will have done London to Brighton or will have died at the top of the south downs one of the two.
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