Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Our team finished! ( See previous post)

It was early in the morning when the team started. We had to go to a meeting point and then the team had to be taken by bus to the starting point for 7 am. They were all smiles when I dropped them - I don't think that it had quite sunk in that there was still 100 kilometres to go.



44 kilometres walked ( Third checkpoint and the first one the support crew could access) and it was time for cups of tea and food ( lamb and lentils and lasagne). Everyone's feet were starting to feel it. By this time it was late afternoon and there is still a full night of walking ahead.


There was another big checkpoint stop later in the night where I fed them all up on porridge, and more cups of tea. The support crew ( that's my SIL and myself) had a few hours sleep and then up again to see our team come home.


They took 23 hours and 28 minutes to complete the 100 kms and all four of them finished. They came in 44th. (out of 350 teams, although it isn't a race.)The first team were runners and actually took less than 12 hours to do the same course. Amazing !


With ages ranging from 40 to 64 we are very proud of our team. A lot of teams finished with less than four but I think that everyone who participated should hold their heads up high. One million dollars was raised for Oxfam and all the volunteers and organisers should be congratulated for a great effort in putting on this event.

P.S. No one is discussing doing this again next year........yet.

10 comments:

Susan said...

Lynda _ I am keeping my fingers crossed for you . . but . . now they have had a taste of the "fun" they had they might want to do it again . . . .

Susan said...

Well done to the whole team. If they do it again stick with the support crew!

Fiona said...

Well done everyone.... great team effort (including the supporters!)
Hugz

De said...

Amazing effort from the Team and the support crew.

gracie said...

Congratulations to the team!

Maria said...

What an effort! Congratulations to all the team and to the support crew.

Anita said...

congratulations to them for finishing!!! and of course they couldn't' have done it without the support crew!!

Lida said...

Fantastic, what a great achievement! Wish them all the best and Oxfam will spend the money raised well! Greetings
Lida

Marilyn said...

Well done to the team and their support crew.
That was an awesome effort, both the walk and the amount raised.

suz said...

Congratulations to everyone!