Training has gone well this week, mostly base aerobic work with three runs and strength work. I will be out again this evening for a pacey 7.5km and then plan to repeat tomorrow before moving out a 12.5km on Sunday. Sandy has joined me once this week and is definitely getting faster and she even had the cheek to say that it wasn’t a very hard run when we finished. How six months makes a world of difference, Sandy struggled around the entire course then!
Preparations for the Cape to Cape, 135km weekend in Western Australia continue. Tom and I will be now be joined by our good friend Paul Castle who has been on oceans and up mountains with us in the past. Paul loves the outdoors and long distance running so was more than game to come and have a weekend in WA. We also received an email from John Morgan, another good friend of ours who has retired and lives in Adelaide. He had read that we were doing the Cape to Cape and asked if we needed someone to run support. The answer was a resounding yes so we are now getting into the finer details of the plans.
Paul got in touch with the lady who runs the Cape to Cape website about further information and told her our plans. He received the following email in response.
Hi Paul
Margaret van Dorssen gave me your details and I have posted your guidebook
today – airmail – so i hope it reaches you in plenty of time.
Margaret said you were planning to do the walk in 3 days – the whole Cape to
Cape is 135 km long and it is quite tough going in places, especially the
soft sandy beaches (!), so 3 days would be a bit ambitious for the whole
walk – very fit bushwalkers can do it in 5 days, but 6 or 7 is more usual
and more realistic.
However, you may be thinking of just doing half or a section with the time
that you have.
Anyway, have a good look through the guidebook – there is a distance chart
near the back – and e-mail me with any queries you might have.
There is quite a bit of information on our website:
www.capetocapetrack.com.au if you haven’t already seen that.
Kind regards
Jane
Doing half of it!! This lady clearly underestimates our immaturity as this email has only made us want to prove them wrong! Three days it is and actually, three days it has to be as Paul and I have a flight to catch on the Sunday!
