OXFAM Trailwalker - Training kick off

Have registered for the 2011 OXFAM Trailwalker - 100ks in 36 hours and a commitment to raise $2,500. The fundraising is the most daunting part of it.

Finding time to train is going to be pretty hard also. Tonight, we went bowling and I walked home. It took me a brisk hour, so it must have been about 7 kilometres. It was also dusk - 9pm to 10pm. Walking at night will exercise my awareness of where my feet are (I can't remember the technical term for it).

Total k's practice so far = @27.5ks over 4 walks. Am probably going to wear out my shows before April's Trailwalker event. The bush tracks will be bliss after the hard concrete.

OXFAM Trailwalker - Shall I or shan't I?

Just took myself for a test drive to see how far I could walk in one hour. The OXFAM Trailwalker is 100k in 36 hours.

I walked briskly around Bucklands Beach Penisula - great excuse to get out and walk along the beaches. It took me 1 hour and 5 mins to get home again. Then clocked it in the car = 8ks.

So, at 7 kilometres an hour, I should be able to do 100ks in 15 hrs, excluding toilet stops, snack breaks, blister-aid and injury.

The training schedule on the OXFAM website is daunting. There's no way I can find up to 8 hours to go for a walk just for training. I'll have to pick up jogging again, interspersed with walks.

Next thing is to get the team committed and register, then start fundraising (I think that's the hard part).

Another toddler kicked to death

Good editorial piece from Dita de Boni in the New Zealand Herald on the killing of Karl Perigo-Check. Made me remember a poem I wrote many years ago upon over-hearing the poor little boy in the house in front getting a bollocking for something similar. In that case at that time of day it was the mother who was the abuser (which is not to say that the father wasn't as abusive also). They moved soon after that incident. Of course I rang Child Services immediately and held the phone out for them to hear the tirade.


Mothers

the mother is screaming you poohed your fuckin pants again I’m fuckin sick of it you’re not a baby anymore you know you’re not allowed to do that at kindy are you are you

the mother gave her kids up to the father even though he’s hardly fit certainly no more than she but she felt they were stealing her life she wants to work she wants her new boyfriend to stick around she doesn’t want to lose her house to debt she doesn’t want to lose her house

despite the likelihood of sons turning out like dads the mother wants her kids to have a relationship with their father now he’s out of jail for kidnapping assaulting and raping her they can see him in person do things with him

her son’s just come out her pride and joy oldest boy left the Air Force taken his beau and went home to mum but she’s not having him her religion’s against it never mind her younger days when she swung any way and got paid for it

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