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We stopped at a pub after eight miles. You have no idea how good this tasted.
Saturday, 3 February 2007
Our first practice walk
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Wow. We walked the best part of 12 miles through the Kent Hills today and I'm sitting at home nursing one very very tired ankle and one very very knackered hamstring. A sobering experience. This was only a fifth of the distance we need to walk on the Trailwalk, and it was really hard. We've got a lot of work to do.
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Four Bellies are Go!
So, the Four Bellies project is officially off the launch pad. This weekend sees our first practice walk, and our sponsorship site is now live and collecting cash.
The four of us are doing the Oxfam Trailwalk in July 2007. There's information about it here, but all you really need to know is that we're proposing to walk 60 miles in less than 30 hours, without (and here's the rub) stopping for anything other than a quick breather. The gurkhas do this kind of thing for fun. We do it for charity, and the soul.
So you want to give us money, right? Lots and lots of money for the best of causes. Well, get straight over to our Justgiving site and start giving and giving. Do it now.
The Four Bellies are:
Alick Mighall: Brighton and Hove Albion fan, bassist and general muso, the only one in the group with significant body piercings and a recent traveller in Points East.
Tristan Leaver: Only an honorary Belly, as in actual fact he's got a lovely flat stomach and is in all ways terrifyingly fit. The Belly Most Likely To Finish.
John Shepherd: Entrepreneur, footballer and professional drinker, John spent his stag night naked with six other men in a Cotswolds pub. We'll be asking him to stay clothed for the duration of the Trailwalk.
Lloyd Shepherd: The oldest Belly, the proudest Belly, the largest Belly. He hasn't been on any foot-based journey this long since sneaking off for fags in Knole Park during cross-country runs.
And, if you didn't get it before, get giving now at our Justgiving site. Now now now!
The four of us are doing the Oxfam Trailwalk in July 2007. There's information about it here, but all you really need to know is that we're proposing to walk 60 miles in less than 30 hours, without (and here's the rub) stopping for anything other than a quick breather. The gurkhas do this kind of thing for fun. We do it for charity, and the soul.
So you want to give us money, right? Lots and lots of money for the best of causes. Well, get straight over to our Justgiving site and start giving and giving. Do it now.
The Four Bellies are:
Alick Mighall: Brighton and Hove Albion fan, bassist and general muso, the only one in the group with significant body piercings and a recent traveller in Points East.
Tristan Leaver: Only an honorary Belly, as in actual fact he's got a lovely flat stomach and is in all ways terrifyingly fit. The Belly Most Likely To Finish.
John Shepherd: Entrepreneur, footballer and professional drinker, John spent his stag night naked with six other men in a Cotswolds pub. We'll be asking him to stay clothed for the duration of the Trailwalk.
Lloyd Shepherd: The oldest Belly, the proudest Belly, the largest Belly. He hasn't been on any foot-based journey this long since sneaking off for fags in Knole Park during cross-country runs.
And, if you didn't get it before, get giving now at our Justgiving site. Now now now!
Sunday, 7 January 2007
Four Bellies went a walking
On 14-15 July, the four of us are doing the UK Oxfam Trailwalk. 100 kms in less than 30 hours, from Petersfield to Brighton. We hope to survive this event with four bellies intact, though perhaps four slightly smaller bellies. We're using this site as a blatant fundraising tactic.
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