So I'm doing the Thames Path Challenge this saturday/sunday, aiming to walk 100km in under 24 hours for charity.
I've found the training OK (the weather has helped!) and I'm not as daunted by it as I thought I'd be. However, for all the information they've had me print off (about 55 pages), the actual advice they give for the actual day(s) is all very vague.
Was wondering if anyone on here has done anything similar and has any tips (aside from "put one foot in front of the other repeatedly")? Specifically, foods I should be eating on the go (as during training I've just been eating at stops). Nut's are off the menu, for the record.
But in general, any advice/things I may not have thought of, but will feel stupid for when I realise I haven't.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Luke
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http://www.wildheartsinaction.org/wolftrek/
Good luck and let us know how you got on..
Best of luck.
The carbs keep you going and the protein stops the muscles breaking down.
Not sure where you're based Mr Happy but Bexley Bikes (in Bexleyheath) stock it, as do Sidcup Cycles and Evans Cycles. Best to get it online though as its cheaper (but realise this isnt an option for you with the time frame!)
Kendal mint cake gives you a sugar Boost. thats from the walkers i know as thay have that. Anyway I'll ask him to log on.
Remember to take plenty of clean socks
Of course, right on cue, a mild gout attack has surfaced. Tomorrow is shaping up to be a right laugh.
Cheers again, and will be back to tell the tale of my great triumph some point on Sunday.
Oh, an should anyone be interested in the charity I'm walking for and donating a couple of quid, the page is www.justgiving.com/casualstroll
I'm going to bed.
First off, thanks so much to you, Mendonca In Asdas, for the donation. Means a lot.
I finished in 21 hours and 22 minutes, which I was delighted with, as the most energetic thing I've done in the past ten years is probably run for (and miss) a bus.
As for how the tips really did help - My honey sandwiches got stuck together to make one giant honey sandwich, which I devoured at the 75km rest point. There was free pick n mix and some of the stops, at which point I filled up several small bags with jelly babies... oh, and I didn't manage to find any of that High5 drink a couple of you mentioned, but it turns out they had it on tap at every rest point, so filled up a small bottle of it for every 12.5k or so.
Aside from that, I arrogantly breezed through the first 50km without a care in the world (even went on sort of a date with a girl I've been seeing from 3km to 10 km), chatting to people, keeping friends and family updated etc... then it got dark and the route got horrible and I lost my ****ing mind. Wlaking along slippery, muddy, narrow paths in pitch black darkness, with my legs swaying everywhere, I'm amazed I didn't fall in the river at least once. It reached a point where I got so distressed I really couldn't see myself carrying on for another 10 hours or so. Also, it got incredibly misty, so even with the head torch on, all you could really see was mist.
Luckily I had the sense at the 61km rest stop to tell someone who looked like they knew what they were doing that I was struggling, and asked it I could tag along with them. Thankfully they obliged.
So the first 'wall' I hit was the mental one at just over halfway, then the second was a physical one at roughly 70k. All I could feel of my legs at that point was the pain in my knees when they moved. At that point I honestly didn't believe I would finish, but still kept carrying on... people tried to suggest that it was through determination, but I think at that point it was just force of habit.
So much harder than I expected, yet somehow I managed it, and quicker than my target time. Also, only got one tiny blister. My back is absolutely killing me though!
I want to do the 50k next year and wouldnt attempt the 100.
Well done again.
Including gift aid that's now £1177.50 raised, with about another £30 from collection tins still to go in and a few more weeks to go. So much more than I'd expected to raise!