Karen’s Training Log

13 mile training walk

It was another beautiful Saturday morning and the Ladies of Loantaka gathered for an early morning training walk. About a dozen of us started out. Maybe it’s because school started, or maybe because we walked an hour earlier, we were passed by two large hordes of teenagers running cross country. I’d like to know how the coach got them out of bed so early. It has been my experience that it is impossible to wake a teenage before noon. And even then they aren’t fully awake until 2:00 or 3:00 pm.

We completed the 7.5 mile round trip path in about 2.5 hours. Three of us decided to do a longer walk. We were going to complete 10 miles, but as we walked, we felt good and decided to walk a total of 13 miles. Geri and Brigid are first time walkers. Now having completed the distance of half of Day 1 or all of Day 2 of the Avon Walk, there are even more confident that they will be able to go the entire 39.3 miles.