Midnight Walk

Saturday 20 June 13.1 miles
Hilary + Jane

Ian gave us a lift. We arrived in plenty of time so we didn't have to queue very long. We handed in our sponsor forms so they could see how the total was going. We were given a few things - an elastic band to hand in half way round (so that they could keep track of us!), a bangle and a plastic poncho in case it rained. We had time for a wander, a cup of tea and a bit of standing about - it was a bit cool.

As we were standing in a sea of orange t-shirts when we went to the loo it was really hard to find each other!

We did a few exercises before we started - lead by an army guy.

We set off (or shuffled off) in the crowd at 12 midnight, it was a bit of a squeeze down to the Reaseheath gate and then once we were on the road we could spread out as the police had stopped the traffic down to Nantwich town centre. Once we got out onto the Crewe road we had to try and fit back onto the pavement which a bit of a problem. Eventually we managed to spread out a bit.

The pace was quite quick considering we were in the crowds of people streaming along the pavement. Hilary soon started stripping off as she got too hot.

Arrived at Bannatyne's at 2.10am. Managed to drop off our bands, had a toilet break, collected a bottle of water, a chocolate bar and a banana and set off again about 2.25am.

We saw Sue Stubbs on our way back, she was wearing a pink t-shirt as she has taken part in each of the five sponsored walks.

9 mile sign at 3am.

As we thought once we reached the 10 miles we began to feel tired and became aware of our feet.

Finished at 4.10am - pretty good. I had thought it might take up to 5 hours to complete, so I was pleased that we were so far under the 5 hours.

Queued for our bacon butties an a cup of tea(in fact Hilary had a second butty - well they were nice!)

John came and picked us up, so home again and into bed for about 5.30am