With less than 2 weeks to go now, Mia, Tracy and I got together one last time for our last "team" walk (minus our dear NZ based team member, Katie). Being bored, bored, bored with the bush for the moment, Tracy sorted us a nice 30km'sih stroll around the northern beaches of Sydney. With a 28C day forecasted, what perfect way to have a last walk together. Tracy has been doing a lot of running (including a 42km bush marathon)and is thinking of running the Sydney marathon in September, she is uberfit and in fabulous form to do the trailwalker. However, it may have been a shock to her to go back to walking (albeit as-fast-as-we-can walk fast walking form) that Mia and I are mentally in the zone for now. Running will start 1 September, until then, fast, consistent, endurance walking. So we wandered, chatted and generally had a lovely Sunday morning, finishing up with a coffee/juice at Belaroma with Evey and Marius, Tracy's mum. Perfect conclusion to many hard months of training. Still one more tapering 20km walk to do for Mia and I next weekend with Tracy running the Pub to Pub to blow out all the cobwebs she gathered this weekend. Katie is still struggling with her health a bit in NZ but is under her trainers orders now to lay low, get healthy and not worry about any training. She'll be absolutely sweet on the day as long as she (actually all of us) are healthy!
This weekend also saw a more important event for The Keep On Moving team - our Keep On Moving Support Crew, got together with us and hatched a plan. Support crew are officially mobilised and good to go. We just need to pack our bags, keep in touch with them, make it to each checkpoint and not do to much more than that, other than the walking.
Oxfam Briefing this Wednesday night will bring on a swarm of butterflies.
Oh, and yes, that is Mia and Tracy in short sleeves in the photos, no sign of thermals, gotta love Sydney in winter time!
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