Go Queen Go!

This weekend my partner Susan is walk 100km, with her friend, to raise money for London Air Ambulance.

Susan's thoughts about walk 100km, continuously overnight

• I completed it
• This definitely wouldn't have happened without my favourite former Councillor challenge walk pal, Rita or my wonderful Dave as non-participatory co-walker and cheer leader

Some stats: over 2 days of the challenge

• 0 hours sleep
• 8072 calories burned
• 178303 steps walked
• Pace dropped from just under 5km an hour to a 3km an hour hobble for last 50km
• Collected around 5 blisters.
• 153 people, some younger than me, did not make it to the end

Some Reflections

• You can have too much Thames Path
• Walking over 50km takes up far too much time, both in training and in life.
• I will never put my body through anything so extreme again - and that includes the organisers' plans to up the ante with a 100 mile challenge next year (Just stop!)
• Having the chance to also show my support for the RNLI in such an appalling week, buying a cap from a random fete stall we walked past, was a boon
• I completed the walk as a well-nourished adult, used to walking distances of 10-50km with one backpack - what must it be like to be a displaced person forced to walk from one end of your state to the other with elderly, sick or young family members and belongings?
• I am so close to have raised over £2000, so far, in my fundraising for the amazing London Air Ambulance - and there is still time to donate as pages stay open for weeks after the race. So here is my link.

Donate

You can donate to Susan's efforts on justgiving.com/page/susan-masters-2

London Air Ambulance

Susan says:

The London Air Ambulance is a fantastic local resource that does great work flying medical practitioners in to accident scenes and casualties out. Sometimes landing as nearby as our local park. To recognise this, I am hoping to improve on my longest walks to date and complete the ultra demanding 100km Thames Path route, walking through the night - any support welcomed

Progress

Route

Start

• Location: Bishop's Park, Fulham
• Elapsed Time: 00:00:00
• Set off time: 09:00:00
• Distance Walked: 0km
• Distance Remaining: 100km
• Altitude Climbed: 0m
• Total Altitude Climbed: 0m

RS1

• Location: Old Deer Park
• Time: 03:00:00
• Time: 12:00:00
• Distance Walked: 13.5km
• Distance Remaining: 86.5km
• Altitude Climbed: 205m

RS2

• Location: Hurst Park
• Time: 06:37:59
• Arrival Time: 15:37:59
• Distance Walked: 28km
• Distance Remaining: 72km
• Altitude Climbed: 294m

RS3

• Location: Thamesmead School
• Elapsed Time: 09:02:48
• Arrival Time: 18:02:48
• Distance Walked: 36km
• Distance Remaining: 64km
• Altitude Climbed: 452m

RS4

• Location: Runneymede
• Elapsed Time: 13:03:21
• Arrival Time: 22:03:21
• Distance Walked: 50km
• Distance Remaining: 50km
• Altitude Climbed: 621m

RS5

• Location: Eton Wick
• Elapsed Time: 17:56:00
• Arrival Time: 02:56:00
• Distance Walked: 63.5km
• Distance Remaining: 36.5km
• Altitude Climbed: 804m

RS6

• Location: Sir Bernard Miller Centre
• Elapsed Time: 23:15:20
• Arrival Time: 08:15:20
• Distance Walked: 77.5km
• Distance Remaining: 22.5km
• Altitude Climbed: 1033m

RS7

• Location: Hurleyford Farm
• Elapsed Time: 27:57:00
• Arrival Time: 12:57:00
• Distance Walked: 88.5km
• Distance Remaining: 11.5km
• Altitude Climbed: 1141m

1 kilometer to go

Finish

• Location: Mill Meadows
• Elapsed Time: 32:59:45
• Arrival Time: 17:59:45
• Distance Walked: 100km
• Distance Remaining: 0km
• Altitude Climbed: 1382m