Be Excellent To Each Other

At Christmas in 2012, a good friend of ours (myself and MrsA) lost her father very suddenly to heart disease. To raise money for the BHF, I shall be walking the Yorkshire 3 Peaks. This is 24 miles (about what you can really expect to do in a day) up 3 big, big hills. 3,000 feet of climbing (up the Shard 3 times.by the stairs), in less than 12 hours. I think 10 is realistic to aim for.

This is really going to hurt, I am genuinely nervous over it. As is my walking partner who has just realised it is him and I. For 10 hours.

Any and all donations gratefully received. I shall recount the experience at the BBQ with a sideshow.

Here is a map and gradient profile.


Thank you all in advance, you wondrous, generous people.


https://www.justgiving.com/David-A/

Thank you, JC.

Thank you, Cavey!
Thank you Riles!

Pinged a donation. Good luck.

Thank you Grim. . And kc.

I have forced a training march in the Peak District this weekend*. It is going to piss it down as we do 20 miles. You get your money's worth in my misery, you know.

Give early, give often.

*In fairness, it was sort of planned by both of us.

18 ish miles.

Nice walk.

It's lovely around The Cat and Fiddle.

Prime biker territory too; something of a Mecca for us two-wheeled fiends.

Is anyone else having problems with the JustGiving site? Three times in the past fortnight I've attempted to use it (for different things) and it just gets stuck at a random point in the process and the continue/submit buttons stop working.

I'll try again at home...

Yeah, I have in the past but not this time.

On one previous occasion it appeared to "hang" at the final donation confirmation (and wouldn't show the donation), so I restarted three times. Then I found out a day later that all had actually gone through (and the donations miraculously appeared), so I ended up donating a shedload!

My hip is a bit stiff this morning. Cat and Fiddle has great views and the Goyt Valley us lovely. 5 pints of Malt Based Recovery Beverage and a donner kebab helped last night. Here is a picture of a shrine I took on the way.

Looks like rain...

Have fun tomorrow Mali. Hope the weather holds out.

Remember: trig point photos are obligatory.

Thank you. Plan is to leave home at half five, pick up my friend at half six, start at seven and pub at half four to five ish.

Then stagger back the 3 milesto the campsite and sleep.

Good luck.. Puts my 4 mile hill race to shame

10 hours 22 mins. More to follow but:

Fuck me, that was hard.

Well done, awesome!
10hrs 22min? Cripes, I'd have expired before then...

Thank you. And thank you all.

Excellent stuff!

Yay

In reverse order..

90th and 91st out of 391. If it is a race.

That is pretty good going..