hnpcc | Tapering down

Georgina was Grand Prixing all this weekend so it was just Karena, Priscilla and myself walking from checkpoints 2 to 4. We should be good at that bit - that was my third time, and the other two's fourth time walking it!

Again we covered CP2-3 quite quickly - bang on 3 hours - and even with a 45 minute break at CP 3 for Priscilla and I to have coffee (we got inspired by last week) and a 10-20 minute chat with an incensed local about plans for a 3km long flying fox to be put in the Hamer Aboretum[1] at Olinda we still finished the entire thing in 7 hours.

This was our last training walk - 2 weeks and 5 days to go, which is quite scary really. Apparently it's possible to follow team progress via a website, which I'll put up in case anyone wants to see how we're going (or not). The good thing for me is that I don't have netball for the next two weeks - I don't have time to heal properly now so I'm trying to be really careful about not injuring myself!

I'll probably do some short walks (around 10km or so) over Easter though. And we've still got to finalise some stuff.

Many thanks to everyone who's sponsored us!

[1] the locals found out by accident via the internet that their swimming pool and community centre (which also happens to be their fire refuge) were going to be bulldozed to make way for a car park to cater to an anticipated 2000 tourists per day for the 3km flying fox through the Aboretum. Apparently the government response is that they don't need planning permission as it's Crown land. The locals are unhappy with this, and given it's an election year are basically starting a major campaign against it. At least the local we met certainly was!