Thread: Oxfam 100km Trailwalker

Hello from Brisbane.

This is a great program and I admire you for doing it.

Mrs S3ute and three other housefraus all in their 50s out of the blue decided to do the Brisbane walk earlier this year. To their credit, they finished with their team intact in a little under 30 hours.

I'm coming on 62 and lost 25 kgs myself since then and also thinking of having a go at it too.

Good luck.

Cheers,

Good luck with it. My partner is a similar age and finished in about 27 hours. They lost a couple of hours when one team member was injured at about 2am and had to be rescued. Be prepared for some serious blisters and to lose some toe nails!

Originally Posted by S3ute

Hello from Brisbane.

This is a great program and I admire you for doing it.

Mrs S3ute and three other housefraus all in their 50s out of the blue decided to do the Brisbane walk earlier this year. To their credit, they finished with their team intact in a little under 30 hours.

I'm coming on 62 and lost 25 kgs myself since then and also thinking of having a go at it too.

Good luck.

Cheers,

Sounds like they did well to me!
Give it a go. If you are anything like me you need something to aim for to get yourself fit.

Originally Posted by Dave_S

Be prepared for some serious blisters and to lose some toe nails!

Hello again.

Yes, that is true - especially the toe nails, although Mrs S3ute came off fairly well. She got hold of some Kiwi hiker's wool which was really good at protecting feet. Only lost one nail and didn't do too badly on the blisters front.

Actually, the older walkers often persisted better than a lot of the younger ones, which might have come down to a mix of better planning and determination.

Age and experience must have a few advantages.....

Cheers,

Good luck. I did the Sydney one when it used to be Hunters Hill to Brooklyn. I managed 75km before giving up with pretty severe sciatic pain . It was a miserable night with almost constant rain and part of the track through the Nat Park was destroyed which is why they no longer do that route.
Its important to get a good backup crew and ours did a great job by providing hot soup and drinks etc at the checkpoints. the same guys I did it with did it 3 years in a row and later hired a campervan for the support crew which made a big difference when the weather is bad.
back then the UK Gurkha regiment used to finish many hours before anyone else and pretty much ran the whole 100km. They actually started up the Trailwalker event as a training exercise when they were based in Hong Kong in 1981.
Cheers
Mark