[Trailwalker] Tales from the trail – training tales for the Oxfam Trailwalker

G’day folklings,

♫ On the road trail again … ♫.
Training has started in earnest now as the walk is less than 12 weeks away.

The four of us have finally trained together, instead of 2 by 2, a pastime that we intend to continue for the next 11 weeks.
So, this week we decided to try out the first 2 sections of the actual trail, from Jells Park to Lysterfield Lake, which adds up to 22 km, to see what it would be like and how it compared to our preparatory training.

This section of the trail is mostly undulating. In fact I think our trail notes calls it ‘gently undulating’. Then, once it has lulled you into a false sense of security, it throws a steep hill at the unsuspecting and innocent walker. You go up it veerry slowly, you lean on the sign at the top and pretend you’re looking at the fabulous view (see attached photo), then you go down it, and return to the gently undulating terrain feeling slightly shell-shocked and finally end up crossing the dam wall at Lysterfield Lake and heading through the BBQ area to the checkpoint.

Saturday's team training from the Start to CP2, top of the hill

Let’s see … compared to our preparatory training walks;

• Similar in length, so we were doing well there.
• Steeper, Gwen and Frances discovered that their previous training walks hadn’t included any real uppy and downy bits so we need to put a little more work into practicing those. (Guess what we’re doing next weekend, ladies…, Eltham has lots of uppy and downy bits to practice on).
• Hotter, somebody forgot to dial the temperature down and we sweltered a bit. Who’s big idea was it to walk on a 34 degree day?!? Ooh, that’d be me, shhh, don’t tell anyone.
  Well, being hot, we went through all our water and all our sugar-laden cordial and when we reached Lysterfield Lake we found a shop that sold icy-poles. That was, just possibly, everyone’s favourite part of the day. We really felt that we had earned those icy-poles.

I suggested to Gwen (from memory it was on the up bit of the hill) that the purpose of walking hard on the training sessions was so that she was too tired at the end to hit me, but she has threatened that if necessary she’ll take a contract out so it won’t matter if she doesn’t have the energy. Frances, on the other hand, plans on going straight to a higher authority and is teeing up a lightning bolt for just in case.

Runkeeper Activity Log (click image to visit)

Darren is already thinking logistically, on things such as how much water we need to carry, what we need to eat and when, and whether hiking poles will be a good idea for the hills. He’s the one finding the walking easiest, so we’ll leave all that stuff to him.

So, next week is off the trail and closer to home (well, my home anyway) and concentrating on some hill practice.

Cheers Tracy

Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to Team 672 : We’re doing what?

[Trailwalker] Now we are in 2012

Tracy and Darren are doing the Trailwalker again, Frances and Gwen are doing the Trailwalker for the first time this April

To our favourite aunties, uncles, cousins, parents, sisters and friends (well at least, those we have email addresses for),

This is a story of foolhardiness for a good cause …

Darren, Tracy, Frances and Gwen (two of Darren’s aunties), have formed a team to do the Oxfam Trailwalker 100 km walk starting on Friday 20th April.

This is both

• an endurance event where the four of us walk for 100 km within a 48 hour period from Jells Park to Warburton, via the Dandenong Ranges, and
• a fundraising activity to aid Oxfam in assisting people living in third world conditions all over the world, including indigenous Australia, as well as providing emergency relief around the world.

So for the first part, the foolhardiness, we have started training, with Gwen and Frances often seen striding with intent from Mordialloc to Black Rock and other places and wondering what they’ve got themselves into, and Darren and Tracy wandering the back streets of Eltham and wondering where all those hills came from.

Gwen, Darren and Tracy did our first practise walk together on New Year’s Eve along the Bass Coast Rail Trail from Anderson to Wonthaggi, a 16km walk of which the 1st ½ is along the coast and beautiful and the second half isn’t (it’s a lot more boring). Gwen discovered that, until further in training, backing up a 20 km walk with a 16 km walk the following day is hard work, especially if you haven’t got the drinking and eating sorted out properly. So, lessons were learnt that day, and reminders given to Darren and Tracy, who realised that we’ve forgotten a few things from last time, which is partly what the training’s about really.

For the second part, the good cause, as we are doing this to raise money for Oxfam, we need to convince our ‘loving supporters / family / friends / casual acquaintances / random people we meet in the street’ to sponsor us for the walk. This is the bit where we ask you to help

Our team has pledged to raise a minimum of $1000, of which we need to raise the majority before the event.
So all we’re asking is if you believe that what we’re doing is worthwhile and would like us to keep you up to date with how we’re going both in the lead up to the event and during the event itself, please visit our team page and make a donation on behalf of our team.

If you’re not so fussed about how we’re going but think Oxfam is worth donating to, we’d still love you to visit our team page and make a donation on behalf of our team

Love Tracy, Darren, Gwen and Frances

Here are a few examples of how Oxfam uses the money …

• $20 can provide families in Timor-Leste with vegetable seeds, increasing nutrition and market opportunities.
• $50 can pay the school fees for a child in South Africa whose parents have died or are ill as a result of HIV/AIDS.
• $100 is enough to provide medicines to one village in Laos to treat common illnesses and prevent disease.

Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to Team 672 : We’re doing what?

[Trailwalker] Oxfam Trailwalker – We’re doing what?

Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne will be held 20-22 April 2012 and will see more than 700 teams walk from Wheelers Hill to Wesburn, through the beautiful Dandenong Ranges National Park … and we’re doing it again.

This is both

• an endurance event where the four of us walk for 100 km within a 48 hour period from Jells Park to Warburton, via the Dandenong Ranges, and
• a fundraising activity to aid Oxfam in assisting people living in third world conditions all over the world, including indigenous Australia, as well as providing emergency relief around the world.

So for the first part, the foolhardiness:- for Tracy and Darren we are back for a second helping. For Frances and Gwen they should probably have never asked “done any fun runs lately?” when we were looking for two unsuspecting team members.

For the second part, the good cause, as we are doing this to raise money for Oxfam, we need to convince our loving supporters / family / friends / casual acquaintances / random people we meet in the street to sponsor us for the walk. This is the bit where we ask you to help .

Team 672 : We’re doing what?
Our team has pledged to raise a minimum of $1000, of which we need to raise the majority before the event.

So all we’re asking is if you believe that what we’re doing is worthwhile and would like us to keep you up to date with how we’re going both in the lead up to the event and during the event itself, please click on http://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/melbourne/teams/team/?team_id=11921 and make a donation on behalf of our team.

If you’re not so fussed about how we’re going but think Oxfam is worth donating to, we’d still love you to click on http://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/melbourne/teams/team/?team_id=11921 and make a donation on behalf of our team

Love Tracy, Frances, Gwen and Darren

Here are a few examples of how Oxfam uses the money …

• $20 can provide families in Timor-Leste with vegetable seeds, increasing nutrition and market opportunities.
• $50 can pay the school fees for a child in South Africa whose parents have died or are ill as a result of HIV/AIDS.
• $100 is enough to provide medicines to one village in Laos to treat common illnesses and prevent disease.

Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to Team 672 : We’re doing what?

[Trailwalker] A quick update

Just a quick update until Tracy has time to write this week’s newsletter.

A quiet 30km on the trail today, followed up with 30km tomorrow to test the legs after a rest. Only 3 weeks to go …
1:21 PM Mar 27th via web

Saturday was a relatively straight forward walk from the Eltham Leisure Centre out to Diamond Creek along the Diamond Ck trail with a loop out Allendale Road, Reynolds Road, Perversie Ave and back to the Diamond Ck trail along Main Road.

Sunday was an early start, back along the Diamond Ck trail heading South to the Main Yarra Trail where we headed towards Warrandyte, then out along the Mullum Mullum Creek Trail to Tindalls Road (this is the final section of the Upstream Foundation 50km event.) Then return via the Petty’s Orchard apple festival.

I’ll let the Twitter timeline tell its own story.

And sunrise finds our intrepid band of walkers well into their ramble. “Super!” chimes Dick. “Rather” replies Anne … #OTWM
7:08 AM Mar 28th via Twitterrific

“It’s too bl@@dy early, if you mention lashing of Ginger beer I’ll have to kill you!” answers the Twitterer #OTWM
7:11 AM Mar 28th via Twitterrific

“Oh George, I’m famished” says Dick “do we have the hamper with the cold ham, egss, biscuits …”. #OTWM
7:58 AM Mar 28th via Twitterrific

“Shut up and eat your Powerbar!” Rebukes George #OTWM
7:59 AM Mar 28th via Twitterrific

Ok, we have almost finished walking. Any chance of you shutting up and not channeling Enid Blyton? #OTWM
“lashings of ginger beer!” no
11:30 AM Mar 28th via Twitterrific

cheers

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Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne/team/520

[Trailwalker] 3 ½ weeks to go

G’day folklings,

Its time for another exciting instalment of Tales from the Trail (hmmm, that sounds like the name of one of Darren’s Old Time Radio plays – this story was brought to you by Cold Water Omo – but I digress).

We had a short night walk on Tuesday to see how we went walking in the dark with head torches. We just did a 5 km walk around the back tracks of Westerfold Park (a large local park with no lighting) and discovered that we could see a lot more clearly than we had anticipated and that walking at night isn’t going to be an issue from the point of being able to see where we are going. Yay, one more potential concern knocked down

This week we decided to walk the last 3 sections of the trail. These total 40km and will be our Day 2 on the actual event. Darren and I left the kids to entertain his folks in Chelsea and headed up to Mt Evelyn and Chris headed there from Eltham. Mike was skipping the first section as he had homework to finish (I suppose we have to let real life intrude sometimes) but met us to do the second and third sections.

The first section was 13 km from Mt Evelyn to Woori Yallock and was along the Warburton Rail Trail with the first half in the shade. Chris LOVES the Warburton Rail Trail. No hills, wide gravel track, easy walking, what’s not to like? Bev and Steve from our support crew pulled up at Woori Yallock as we arrived, we sat near the car, had some lunch and when Mike and Rhi arrived, we set off again.

From Woori Yallock to Warburton is the Superleg, 20 km between checkpoints, of which the first ½ is on the Rail Trail before diverting up on to the O’Shannassy Aqueduct Track. Chris, Darren and I have done this one before, back in January so knew what we were in for. That climb up the goat track onto the O’Shannassy Aqueduct Track is still nasty, but the rest is quite nice and mainly flat. However, what I didn’t expect was my legs to get upset with me because of the long flat walking. All our other walking has incorporated hills and so various muscles have been at work. This long flat section worked one set of muscles only and after about 30 km one of my quads was starting to make itself known. It wasn’t until we stopped at the checkpoint though, and my legs cooled down, that the other one decided to join in the fun too. Ouch. Oh, and eating correctly on the trail is important too, if you don’t, you get grumpy, tired and miserable … note taken, reminder given. But eating, drinking and being merry at a checkpoint makes all the difference in the world.

After our Warburton stop, where we were once again pampered by Bev, Steve and Rhi with food, drink, fresh socks and blankets to keep us warm while stopped, we again set off for the last of our three sections. This one has been classified as vicious on the map so we were sort of dreading it but also knew we wanted to have met it before the event. It started off easily enough, winding through some bushland, then headed up. I would just like to mention here that the only time my quads didn’t hurt on this section was when we were heading up. not fair. But there was a fair amount of up. A little bit of flat, a lot of up, some more flat, a lot of down, a big steep up (which Chris hated … but at least my quads didn’t hurt), a bit more flat, a steep down, then turn right to do the last km through the bush on relative flat ground before coming out at the finish area. This section was hard work but nowhere nearly as scary as we had thought – see our imaginations are much more vivid than reality.

We practised our big finish, then sat down for a drink and something to eat. Sitting down was probably a bad idea as I had trouble standing back up again as my legs had again cooled down. By this stage it was getting late and I desperately needed to warm up so Darren rang his parents and asked (begged?) if they could bring the kids home to Eltham for us, and they very generously agreed. We went home, I jumped in the bath and warmed up my legs, and they were a lot better after that. I had a similar problem with my legs on the day we got hailed out but each time they’ve improved immensely with just getting the legs warm again.

In the course of our training we’ve encountered and come up with solutions for blisters, for chafing, for the energy hits required for the steep hills, for food requirements, for walking in the dark, and now we’re sorting out the muscle cool down. I think we may almost be ready for the real thing, which is good because it’s only 3 ½ weeks away (eek!).

Tomorrow there’s a briefing night for the teams including the support crews so most of us are heading to that to find out more about the walk and ask questions and get the support crew information. Hopefully they’ll also let us know what our start time will be.

Again, there are a few more photos up on Flickr from this walk.

Love Tracy
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Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne/team/520

[Trailwalker] 4 1/2 weeks to go

G’day folklings,

We have started this week with a change in walkers. After Rhi’s physio pulled the plug on Rhi walking, I rang Mum (Chris).

“G’day Mum, how are you?” ”Fine” “How’s your legs?” “Okay” “Feet?” “Fine, why?” “Do you feel like going for a walk?”

As she has been training with us, and we had already been aware that Rhi may not be able to walk, she said in a similar fit of insanity to the one I had a few months ago … “Okay”.

We are at the stage now where we need to train with our Support Crew a few times. So, Bev, Steve and Rhi (see, she didn’t get out of it entirely), and Bev and Steve’s two boys, joined us this Sunday to practise their part of the activity. Our plan was to walk the 38 km from Checkpoint 2 at Lysterfield Lake to Checkpoint 5 at Mt Evelyn, where we will be sleeping on the actual day.

The day started off nicely, Rhi drove us all to our starting point and we set out at 9:30. The first leg was 13.3 km long and for about the first 7 km, the walk was relatively flat, along nice wide bush tracks and was very pleasant. Then it started to go up. We were heading to Belgrave after all so it had to happen at some stage. After reading some other teams’ blogs, we were expecting nasty things on this leg, and although there were some steep bits and some very steep bits and the occasional extremely steep bit, we were pleasantly surprised to find that it wasn’t as bad as we had anticipated (which I suspect says more about what we expected than about the track). The bit just past the Puffing Billy was the extremely steep bit with a gradient of 23%. Yep, that slowed us down a tad. Then a 2 km easy walk into Grants Picnic Ground in Kallista.

Bev, Steve and Rhi were waiting for us with chairs and water for a wash and top ups for our water bottles and pumpkin soup and bread and fruit and zucchini slice (and coffee). This was fantastic. We felt loved and looked after and about ½ an hour later (yes folks, all that work on their part for just ½ an hour) were refreshed enough to set off once more.

The next leg was 10.4 km and one Mike, Darren and I have done before but was a whole new experience for Chris. The narrow track through the trees goes up (more up – do you notice a theme here?) and is pretty hard work. Then there’s a flattish section where you can get back into your stride and enjoy the walk again. Down for a bit through the Alfred Nicholls Memorial Garden (we knew where we were going this time so didn’t waste time trying to interpret the map) in which there was a huge tree down, presumably from last week’s storm. Over the creek, around the trees, up Spook Hill (oops, wrong story). Then Hacketts Rd. That road that goes up and up and up. The walking poles had been much in evidence on this walk, from since the trail started going up much earlier in the day, but here they came into their own, again. Walking poles are Chris’s new best friends J.

Again, after our walk through the woods, we were able to enjoy the pampering of our WONDERFUL support crew in Olinda, who this time had hot chocolate and scones and fruit and a change of socks for us. Our support crew are vying for dominance in the best friend stakes against Chris’s walking poles. ½ and hour later we were off again, this time we wouldn’t be coming into the checkpoint to a pampering session but rather to a car to take us home so Bev and Steve (and their 2 boys) packed up and went home and Rhi continued on to our last checkpoint for the day.

I think that whoever graded these legs of the track lied. This was supposed to be easier than the last two legs. Hmmmm. Not so much. There was some downhill, actually there was a lot of downhill, interspersed amongst the lots of uphill. Chris tried out her paratrooper roll down one of the hills. Very impressive and no damage. We went down, we went up, we learned that every time there’s a fork in the road, the path we need is the one that goes up. Then we went DOWN. This down, Melba Track, made the Hacketts Rd up look flat. Eek, scary stuff. Followed by a bit more up so that we knew we were on the right track, and then the last few kilometres were on the flat, the Warburton Rail Trail.

Rhi met us at Mt Evelyn at 7pm, we all took off our shoes and socks and made her suffer the smell for the drive home. Thank you Rhi, Bev and Steve for your fantastic support during the day.

There are a few more photos up on Flickr from this walk.

Love Tracy
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Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne/team/520

[Trailwalker] A quick update

G’day folklings,

This is just a quick update until I have time to write this week’s newsletter.
Rhiannon’s physio has told her she won’t be able to walk in the Trailwalk, so ….
Chris has taken her place as a walker and Rhi has taken Chris’s place in the support crew.

So our team currently consists of

• Tracy, Darren, Mike and Chris as walkers
• Bev, Steve and Rhiannon as support crew

Tracy
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Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne/team/520

[Trailwalker] 5 1/2 weeks to go

G’day folklings,

We decided this week, because everyone needs a reason, that we would walk to Southbank along the Main Yarra Trail to get an ice-cream. The ice-cream shop there sell a really nice chilli chocolate ice-cream

Chris (aka mum), from our support crew, decided that she’d walk with us as she’d read somewhere that it was a good idea to walk occasionally with the team to get a feel for how they would be feeling as they came into a checkpoint, and she was curious to see if she could do the distance (and she likes chilli chocolate ice-cream).

It was a lovely day but the weather report had said there would be rain and storms later in the day so we had our raincoats packed. We walked, we talked, we argued over which track was the Main Yarra Trail each time it split, we counted how many sports ovals we passed (lots), and we started fantasising about coffee. We decided that we would stop at around 17 km, which was around the Fairfield Boathouse, to have something to eat, check our feet (I was trying a different tape for taping my toes this week), and emulate a checkpoint stop (except without the anticipated chaos, or trying to find our support crew, or checking in and out … but you get the idea). The Main Yarra Trail is the most well known bike track in Melbourne (according to Bicycle Victoria) but it’s sign marking is garbage, you really need to carry a map or know the trail in advance. For example, after crossing the Chandler Highway, you head right to the Fairfield Boathouse, unless, like us, you don’t realise that the sign that says this way to the lookout is actually the one for the trail and you keep heading left. So at 22 km we found the Studley Park Boathouse instead.

By this stage, Chris was ‘needing’ (it was way past want) a soft drink and would have possibly killed, or at least maimed, for it so we didn’t stand in her way. However, they do have fantastic coffee (and soft drink) and we sat at a table beside the river and ate our sandwiches, discovered that the Fixomull gauze tape is much kinder to toes than sports tape as my feet were absolutely fine, drank our beautiful coffee, worked out how to get back onto the trail and pretended we were Ratty and Mole. Leaving Studley Park, we were serenaded by a couple practicing their bagpipes on the riverbank, and they were very good.

It was starting to get very overcast at this stage so we were coming up with Plan B’s, depending on how far we got before the rain hit. We were working on the theory that if it just rained we would keep going (remember that chilli chocolate ice-cream waiting for us), but an electrical storm would end the walk and we’d get to the nearest public transport, as would a sudden drop in temperature. We got as far as Collingwood Children’s Farm when it started to spit. About 30 seconds later, it started to hail, so we ran back to the coffee shop undercover tables, and, along with everyone else there, huddled as the hailstorm raged around us. The hailstones there were about the size of a $1 coin (Darren took a photo), which is quite big enough. When the front of the storm had passed, Darren looked up his handy gadget and discovered that there was another storm front due to come through soon. Decision made – Abort! Abort!

We walked through the rain up to the nearest railway station, past the Abbotsford Convent where the notice said they were selling freshly squeezed juice, beer and wine. I’ve never heard of freshly squeezed beer but maybe that’s a special type So we caught the train home with lots of other soggy people who were bailing from Moomba and passed up on our ice-cream. But, except for that last 1 km, it was a really nice walk, which ended up being about 27 km, and we all felt quite good after it.

We’ll have to head back to the actual trail next week and do some bits on that as we’re starting to get close to the time of the actual walk.

Love Tracy
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Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne/team/520

[Trailwalker] 6 weeks of training to go before the Oxfam Walk :)

G’day folklings,

Well it’s that time of the week again, your chance to laugh at our training stories.

We’ve again ignored the actual trail and decided to walk close to home.
This time from Eltham to Diamond Creek and back. It’s a relatively flat track and is a good one for Rhi’s knee recovery while still being a decent length – 16 km. So, much to both Rhi and Darren’s “don’t do mornings” disgust, we started our walk at 8:45 on Sunday morning (who’s idea was this? Rhi’s!). Also, I had decided that, as I am regularly getting blisters on my little toes after about 20 km, I’d try taping these toes to see if that made any difference.

It was actually quite a pleasant walk with a much lower temperature than we’ve had on most of our walks, and the Diamond Creek Trail is such a popular place for walkers and cyclists that we decided to nickname it Bourke St. When we got to Diamond Creek, we had a quick stop to fuel up (museli bars and scroggin, yum – thanks Mum for introducing us to those delicious mandarin lollies, they do add something a bit special to the scroggin) and turned around to come home again.

Rhi’s knee held up very well, although is still giving a few twinges on the downhill sections although she worked out that zigzagging down the hill worked as a method of combating that – resulting in a little entertaining argy-bargy between Darren and Rhi as they jostled each other on the hills.

As Rhi and Mike didn’t have time to go any further after the 16 km walk, as they had to take Cam to his Scout activity in Lilydale, when we got back to the Leisure Centre where we’d left our cars, they peeled off to go do parenting stuff.

I wanted to try to break the 20 km hurdle so Darren and I decided to keep going and do an extra 10 km by going up to Westerfold Park and back. At about 20 km we stopped for me to stop and change socks as my feet were feeling a bit hot and swollen. As I changed my socks I discovered that the taping had stopped blisters forming in their usual places, but that the glue from the tape had seeped through and glued my toes together. I now have blisters on the very tips of my two little toes instead – oh well, it makes a change. However, changing the socks did feel good but my feet were yelling “you’ve got to be kidding” for the first few steps after stopping until they got used to the idea of getting going again.

Our 10 km got slightly (~4 km) longer than planned as we turned right instead of left at the junction (oops) and took the longer trail around the park. That did give us a decent hill to walk up so was probably a good thing. So Darren and I ended up doing about 30 km. My legs were okay after it, but my feet were a bit (lot) sore and very weary, of course my body was pretty weary too and boy did I sleep extremely well that night. But everything felt fine the next day so that’s promising.

Next week is the long weekend and Rhi and Mike will be at Blairgowrie and are planning to do their walking down there, so Darren and I will be walking on our own.

Love Tracy
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Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne/team/520

[Trailwalker] 7 weeks of training to go :)

We decided to skip the trail this week and walk a little closer to home. Eltham to Warrandyte and back is 20 km and so seemed like a good walk to choose. As it is mainly along a track beside the river, we thought it would be nice if we took our kids on their bikes so we could actually spend some time with our families.

Mainly and thought are the operative words here … the section where it isn’t along the river is along the road and steep enough to make riding difficult. So the various parents were pushing various bikes up hills to a background chorus of kids with tired legs. By the time we got to Warrandyte, our timing was shot to pieces and so, as we had to get home in time to take the kids to a birthday party, we headed home by car. So our 20 km walk along the river ended up being about 10 km but we did get coffee and pasties at the Warrandyte bakery.

The two boys walked about 1/2 way back bush-bashing as they unsuccessfully tried to find an alternative route to the road section, whereas us two girls did a much more leisurely additional 5 km around Westerfold Park later on (after the birthday party).

Love Tracy

You shall not Pass! - Yes it is shown as parkland, it is also a cliff face!

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Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/melbourne/team/520