Doing this again

We did it. This is us at 26 miles, we still had .2 to do but we managed that too and finished the moonwalk.

It took us longer than anticipated as my friend had a very painful foot to start with, we think she has that planta facilitarta or whatever its called so she did suffer going up hills, this was pretty bad for her as the first 3 miles were nearly all up hill, but we got there. I too began to suffer from.the first 3 miles, my shoe was not quite right and was rubbing on the top of my foot. I stopped to alter it but really it didn't get much better but it was ok because we only had 23.2 mikes to go.

We reached 7 miles in good time, we soldiered on, the weather was dry, cool but not too cold. The new mooners left the course early to finish their six miles. We wandered on through tge streets of Edinburgh. Some of the buildings were lit up pink in support of the cause.

We lost some more people just before the 13 mark as they were off to finish the half moon. We by now needed a loo stop, we'd passed the two earlier ones as there was a long queue but we had to join this queue and if there is any crtisicm at this point it would be the lack of loo. We waited about 45 minutes which isn't unusual as it does warn you before you start about the wait. Perhaps more loos would be beneficial but i guess there must be a reason there aren't any more. We lost some valuable time here and it knocked us of schedule but we got going again and got a new lease of life and began to enjoy ourselves again.

Also by now my feet were starting burn a little on the bottom, blisters felt present. I didn't dare take my shoe off to see the damage, what the eye doesn't see the heart can't grieve over, so i kept going. My friend was now rattling on her pain killers, she lost the battle of injuries in the loo queue to a woman who was on stronger pain killers than my friend and who also had sciatica! 1 - 0 to sciatica, sorry my friend!

It started to rain and get cold around the 15 mile mark by the sea. It was daylight and if we had been walking as the sun rose in bras and sunglasses instead of waterproof, heat blankets, gloves and hoodies, we may have had a different take on this walk. As it was, cold and tired we vowed never again. Hills were now becoming a problem to both of us, going up i liked because it took the pressure off my sore feet but it killed my friend with her plantar fas whatever, going down the hill gave her relief but killed my feet. What are we doing?

With 20 miles covered we were on the home straight. 6.2 miles left. We can do it. Weren't giving in. The white medical help car went past but if you get in it you can't finish so that was not an option. We had come too far now to give in so we decided not to moan anymore about being sore or tired (which was difficult) and we would just get on. We did see people worse off than us and there was an 82 year old lady taking part and putting us to shame so we can do it.

We carried on, the volunteers who were there at every turn must have been as cold and tired as us but they smiled and cheered us on and it was a welcome sight sometimes to see a turn and change of scenery.

26 miles was such a sight and the point two was just around the corner and we made it at 9.11am.

Well done Mrs C and friend. We collected our medal and our bag which we didn't need and took our sore feet, weery legs and tired bodies to the taxi to take us back to fawlty towers to await a lift home from a kind gentleman who came to collect us to save us waiting for a train. Thank you kind gentleman.

So, summing up, a great achievment, we trained well, a little disappointed that maybe we could have seen more sights lit up in pink. There wasn't anything I saw at night that I thought 'wow' that was worth doing the walk to see. Some of The streets we walked could have been in our home town which is why after completing the challenge and raising nearly £500 between us I will not be doing this again.