A short training walk

The Moovettes minus Renee went on a short stroll last night - starting at my place, we wandered up Royal Parade, around Royal Park, past the zoo, past the children's hospital and back up to Royal Parade. At that point, Bridge decided we hadn't walked far enough, and we should walk around at least half of Princes Park. She also decided that in order to liven things up a little, and to move and stretch different muscles, we ought to practice our silly walks. Amid cries of protest about having an image to maintain, we walked backwards, kicked our knees up, walked with our hands on our heads and so on. (Not all at once, but we may try that next time.)

All in all, we walked about 8.6 km in an hour and a half. I think the silly walking slowed us down a little, but it did help to loosen up the legs - could be a good strategy along the Warburton trail.

The one low point of the walk was when we (or mostly me) realised that cumulatively we've only walked about half the track in training. We've got a long way to go, literally. We've got a bit of time, too, though.

WE MUST BE TOTALLY NUTS!

Image "courtesy" of Oxfam Trailwalker Map Books

Pictures from last training walk

Just about to walk down a hill that felt like a cliff! You can just make out Port Philip Bay in the distance.



Lunch!

The Moovettes exist!

It's kind of scary to see it

Please remember that we are walking the 100kms for a cause, every little bit counts.

It's Official

Gulp! We faxed off our team registration form on Friday (complete with credit card numbers).... no turning back now.

In honor of this important event we thought it deserved celebrating.... with a walk!

Stats for Sunday 7th of October, 2007

Practice number: 4
Location: Kalista, Grant's Picnic Ground
Distance: 13.5 km
Climbing: over 400m up and over 400m down
Walkers: 5 (Renee was absent and we made up for her conversational skills with Emperor Joshua and Baretto Brig's husband Stu)
Conditions: Beautiful fine day, mild to warm in Sunshine and perfect walking in the shade
Time: 3hrs
Speed: averaging between 3-5 kms/hr
Fastest walker: Emperor Joshua and Stu (show offs!)
Slowest walker: Bridge, Brig and Bob
Topic of conv: Where is the top of this bloody hill! Picture to come including an elevation map (hopefully) of what we walked.

How we pulled up: Physically, I think we realise we have some work ahead of us.
Mentally, I think we are all getting excited. Now that we have walked a section of the trail that we know is moderately difficult the full 100kms doesn't feel insurmountable, just bloody hard.

Stay tuned for information regarding our official team number and Oxfam team webpage. This also means you will all soon be able to donate to our team at Oxfam!

Happy Trails!

About the Ads

Believe it or not, the goal of our doing the Oxfam trailwalker challenge is not to walk fast enough to beat the boys' impressive result (87th) from last year. The real goal is to raise money for Oxfam.
To that end, I've added advertising to the sidebar of this page. Any money earned from these ads will be added to our fundraising efforts. According to the adsense rules, I'm not allowed to tell you to click on the ads... so I'm just going to assume that you know that clicking on ads generates money which will go straight to Oxfam.

Stary Night

It was a reasonably mild night for winter, the stars were out and so were the Carlton Footballers, minus Fevola.

Stats for Monday 9th of July, 2007

Practice number: 2
Location: Princess Park
Distance: 9.6 km
Walkers: 4
Conditions: Stary night, a few Carlton Footballers
Time: 1hr 30mins
Speed: averaging between 5-6 kms/hr
Fastest walker: Bob (B3)
Slowest walker: Bridge (B1)
Fastest jogger: Bridge (B1), unable to jog, it's either a walk or run
Fastest talker: Renee.... no more coffee before practise walks
Topic of conv: Was more of a monologue, Renee couldn't shutup.

Topics covered involved food, specifically how many Curly Wurly's Renee had eaten that day. How much Italian food Renee has gotten her boyfriend to eat since they have been together and how to wrestle mini Violet Crumbles out of a grown man's hand.

How we pulled up: Physically, I think we are all still finding our blister spots and potential "nigglies".

Mentally, I think Bob (sitting) needs some help and Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus isn't helping.

Da Daa!

Since I lasted posted we have had some significant developments in our quest to beat "The Boy's" past efforts in the completing the Oxfam Trailwalker 100km in 48 hours.

We have found our fourth member! I would like to introduce Renee (otherwise known as Ben or B5i). Renee is a keen runner and is also crazy enough (or easily influenced) to walk 100kms with the rest of the Moovettes.

So our team has been formed.... finally!

B1: Bridge (short for Bridget)
B3: Bob (short for Kate, or Katherine)
B4v1: Bridge (short for Bridgid)
B5vi: Ben (short for Renee)

For sake of sanity I think we might stick to Bridge, Katherine, Bridge and Renee. I don't quite know how much more this is going to help.

In other news we have had our first training session!

The newly formed Moovettes, plus Kader (Bridgid's four month old puppy), set out from the Tennis Courts at Princess Park in Carlton. We walked around Princess Park three times to identify team dynamics, potential issues and to have a good ol' gossip.

Stats for Saturday 2nd of June, 2007

Practice number: 1
Distance: 9.6 km
Walkers: 4 + dog
Conditions: Pretty good
Time: 1hr 40mins
Speed: averaging between 5-6 kms/hr
Fastest walker: Kader the dog (wanting to smell everything)
Slowest walker: Kader the dog (found something really good to smell)
Topic of conv: Sab splitting his pants at Baretto's the other week (he had underwear on underneath, I have been assured)

Stay tuned to find out the stats of our next practise walk scheduled in a week or so.

Cheerio!

Well they say you can't start too early!

I don't know if eleven months and counting is too early to start a revolution however we thought we would ride on the coat tails of our inspiration, the Moo Walkers .

So, in the true spirit of community awareness and other such wonderful feats we bring you the Moovettes. An evolution of the B Team, we are three committed women who have supported the Moo Walkers in their Oxfam Trailwalker endeavors, in some form or another.

B1 is back (otherwise known as Bridge), B3 is back (otherwise known as Bob, short for Kate) and introducing B4version1 (otherwise known as Baretto Bridge).

We are looking for the fourth lucky member of our team and we are making the committment to take on the challenge, 100kms in 48 hours all in the name of Oxfam (Until we register, in 23 weeks, please donate at: http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Melbourne/team/134).

Sometime in March 2008 the moovettes will take off from Jells Park in Glen Waverly and walk 100kms around the Dandenongs. And this time the Moo Walkers will be supporting us and our smelly, blistered feet.

Pay back's a b#*ch.... in more ways than one.

Stay tuned for updates on the recruitment of the last member of our team... lucky bugger.

PS we are secretly hoping B2 (otherwise known as Bill, short for Belinda) will be back.