100kms in pictures

The start



Lunch











Dinner



Dawn... minus 1.



A little break, the next day







Oh the Pain! The PAIN!



Team 134 approaching the last checkpoint



Getting ready to tackle the last leg



Not far to go



THE FINISH



THE CELEBRATION
sorry if it isn't very jubilant, did we mention it was 31 hours?

A word from our sponsor......

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1 Sleep and Counting

Tomorrow morning I'm going to be taking a bit of a stroll in the countryside with a few friends... And by stroll, of course, I mean a grueling 100km hike through rugged, hilly bush.

My head is buzzing with preparations - have I packed enough clean pairs of socks? Do I have enough gatorade for the whole thing? Have I eaten enough carbs? How much carbohydrate is in a banana? an apple? a potato? (According to the AIS guidelines for pre-event eating, I would have to eat about 4kgs of potatoes today to get enough carbohydrate... that's pushing it, even for me).

We've trained and prepared as much as we can, and we're all desperately hoping that it will be enough. At the same time, we are fairly certain that no amount of training would ever be enough for this event, and that the only thing that will get us through is sheer stubbornness and massive quantities of nurofen plus. And the knowledge that we're doing this for a good cause.

To those of you who have already donated: Thank you, thank you, thank you. With your help, our team has raised enough money to set up a pump to provide water for a Sudanese village. (I'm worried about gatorade... too many people don't even have water).

To those of you who haven't yet donated: Come on.... it's a good cause. If I can walk 100km, surely you can give up a few bucks! And it's tax deductible!

Go here:
http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Melbourne/team/134

click on "donate to our team" and be generous. And thank you.

We start tomorrow morning at 8:30am, and during the day and night you can follow our progress on the live results tracker at:

http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Melbourne/

We'll (hopefully) be sending updates from the trail via SMS - just look for the
Moovettes.

So...
Socks: Check
Gatorade: Check
Snacks: Check
Sanity: Checked at the door. It isn't recommended for this event.

Wish me luck,
Kath.

3 sleeps and counting....

It's here!

This Friday morning at 8.30am we will be taking a bit of a stroll.

Let me define stroll for you....

Katherine, Renee, Bridgid and myself will be walking 100kms in less then 24 hours, and climbing a total 1km (thats 2 1/2 times the height of the world's tallest building).

We have been training for this day for the past 3 months. We have walked in training almost 300kms with our longest walk at 42kms.

I have consumed more litres of Gatorade in the past 3 months then I had consumed beer in my first year of Uni.... I will let you ponder that thought for a second.....

We are ready, almost itching to go. There is still some residual denial, but we won't worry about that (in the true spirit of denial).

The past week the weather forecast has been on everyone's mind and everyone else's too as they keep sending us the forecast. Thanks guys!

I might take this opportunity to thank everyone that has been supporting us in someway, donations, encouragement and even just acknowledgment of "100kms! But that's just crazy!"

The Moovettes would also like to take the opportunity to thank our official support crew in advance. Marc, Stephen, Stu and Mary, please forgive us for the demands we will be placing on you in three days time. We wouldn't be able to attempt this without you backing us up.

For everyone who will be interested in our progress, you can track our team on the website:

oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne

Our team # 134
Our team name Moovettes

You will be able to see our progress as we move from checkpoint to checkpoint.

Also, if you haven't already done so, please give generously to OXFAM and our team... there is a real and very important reason why we undertaking this challenge.

http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Melbourne/team/134

Thank you everyone!

The Moovettes