Month: April 2009

Whilst shopping on Saturday, my wife, son and I visited local sewing/ fabric shops and bought anything pink that you could stick to my Moonwalk bra.  This evening, my wife turned a dining room chair into a dressmaker’s mannequin and started to pin the fluffy pink boa and sequins to the bra.  That’s not all, I’ve got some LEDs too, to light up my night walk.

The Moonwalk booklet has a detailed training plan, and I thought I’d use this as a means to address the annual New Years resolution to get fit.  Well, needless to say, I’ve been sufficiently distracted and expert at finding excuses to have not followed it.  I have done some walking, and the other day, covered half the distance and still managed a bike ride the following day.  So I’m hoping that a practise walk of 20 miles will be enough to prep me for the big night.

Two (current) concerns I still have, are:

1. How do I prep to make sure I stay awake through then night and don’t end up sleepwalking and wandering of course?
2. With what do I fill my bra with such that, wearing it over a 26 mile walk, it doesn’t rip my chest hair out?

Ok, back to the bra – hope to have it ready in next couple of days and use it as part of my fundraising campaign – so watch this space.

Finally got round to breaking the 10 mile barrier in training for the Playtex Moonwalk in my home town of Tunbridge Wells (UK) and covered 12 miles and that’s after a day’s shopping, which I didn’t track, so guess about 14 miles in total.

The thing is, I thought I’d make a point of turning left or right into roads or footpaths I haven’t taken before and it’s amazing how little of my own town is new to the eye.

The sun was shining and it turned out to be  pleasant day wandering streets and parks new to me, which of course made the time and miles pass by!

So if you’re reading this and taking on the Playtex Moonwalk, or any other similar walking/ running event, train locally and just zig-zag all over where you live and you’ll be amazed at how much you didn’t know was there!

Walk the walk!

It’s getting closer!!!  My parcel arrived with the Bra, the Hat and T-shirt.  Note I’ve not modelled the bra yet, as I’m waiting until I’ve decorated it. 

Despite wanting to use this event as an opportunity to train, train, train, I’ve adopted the same attitude I applied to a previous event of 40 miles.  How hard can it be?  It’s only walking…  Mmmmm I’ll have to wait and see, as no training = payback after the event. 

Still, I’ve bought some new trainers, so they should help!