Challenge walk pics.

[deltadelta48]

Ahhhh Your still a WIMP though Back in my days we used to Walk this walk in 20 minutes on one leg while balancing a Rat on our heads and whilst blindfolded!!!

Actually in Milwaukee we would do that with a rat behind each ear!


Great effort and great pictures! Congratulations on a job well done!

[poppa501]

Aww--I knew you could do it Frank! Who said there weren't any heroes anymore. You will always be a hero in my book pal.
Hope it dosen't take too long to recoup!

Love ya!
Poppa

[yorkiesauctions]

Thank you folks.

I was told last night by my daughter, who did the challenge walk last year (in Holmfirth), that after everyone has sent in their sponsor forms and all the money has been collected he NSPCC send out a thank you letter to everyone who took part in the walk. She said it can be a few months after the walk but the letter also tells you exactly how many people took part, and how many finished, along with bits of other information. It will be very interesting (to me) to see those figures.

I think there was over 500 people doing the walk and I think that well over 100 couldn't finish it. I hope they tell us how much was raised between us all too because I know that one team of walkers had raised over £8000 between them so I'm guessing that the final total of all the walkers will be very impressive.

If I get such a letter I will pop a post on eBid, I'm sure other folk are interested in what these sort of events manage to raise.

[bluebedouin]

And we head off to the next checkpoint. I found that if I kept a couple of the prettier walkers infront of me it worked a lot like dangling a carrot infront of a donkey, it kept me moving. lol


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Had to use your imagination a bit then!

[Rednosty]

That's nothing we used to do it, carrying 2 bags of coal on our backs, and with nowt to eat

Rucksacks full of coal? RUBBISH We used to get up half hour before we went to sleep, Have to shovel cow muck into bags with holes in, Carry them on our backs with muck running down our backs, Stand in freezing fog for hours before dad used to make us walk around the earth THREE times then we had to do this stroll Yorkie Wimp Did and we Paint the pictures with our extra leg whilst standing on one leg and you tell kids today and they won't believe you!

BEAT THAT!!

[kengillam]

We still haven't seen any pictures of the blisters

[yorkiesauctions]

Had to use your imagination a bit then!

lol, now they would have made the walk a lot more enjoyable

We still haven't seen any pictures of the blisters

I didn't have a single blister Ken.

The only ache and pain I had was my right hip from when I fell down the chuffin mountain. lol. Apart from that I was a 100%, I didn't even suffer the day after which really shocked me.

I guess I'm fitter than I give myself credit for. lol

[shezz]

awwww Frank

well done that man, I had no doubt and knew you do it, with the determination you have shown


I would of sooo liked too of done the walk, even more now i've seen the some of the piccys, the scenery is brill

dont have nowt really like that around here, more a concrete jungle

[yorkiesauctions]

awwww Frank

well done that man, I had no doubt and knew you do it, with the determination you have shown


I would of sooo liked too of done the walk, even more now i've seen the some of the piccys, the scenery is brill

dont have nowt really like that around here, more a concrete jungle

Thanks lass.

I could have done with you coming round with me, it would have made it a bit easier at times with someone to talk to and take my mind off it. lol

The scenery is stunning, the village is gorgeous, and the folk are very friendly. I've fallen in love with the place and since it's less than a 2 hour drive from here I will definitely be going back.

I'm going to get one of the photos enlarged and have it framed with the certificate underneath it just to remind me of the day, and to remind me that even a big dopey bugga like me can do things if they really put their everything into it.

[TexasAda]

Early on, i was impressed with your organized approach to getting ready for the day of the walk, and your fundraising. Now that i've seen the photos, i am surprised at the bumpiness of the path. Naively i was envisioning a nice flat, paved walkway the entire route. No wonder people fell. Might be tempted to call it a 35 mile walk, considering it's "mountain miles".