the_oxfam_100km
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| University: | Software Engineering & Economics, Melbourne University |
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Last Weekend (Friday 1st April to Saturday 2nd April) we went for a walk ... a 100km walk.
Here is the story of our grand adventure...
Our Result
The result of our walk is here. Our finishing time of just under 34 hours was a little slower than we expected. This was partly due to us oversleeping on the saturday morning (i think we slept from about 3am - 6am, which was 1 hour longer than planned), and from Alex Wang needing to shit a grand total of FOUR times during the entire trip. One particular toilet break took about 30 minutes as he waited in line for about 15 minutes before he got to the front of the queue for the only available toilet...
The Finale
I'm kinda doing this post in reverse chronological order because it is quite a long post and there are lotsa pictures to follow. Anyway, below is a video of us crossing the finishing line. You can see the time under the "Finish" board, but that is 3 hours fast because we started in the 3rd group of 250 teams which was 3 hours after the 1st group started (the clock started counting from the 1st group).
The 33 hours in Picture
I found these on sale the day before. Perfect timing! I bought a pack of mars and a pack of snickers, and managed to polish off all the snicker bars on the trail ...
My Tag...
Walking through Jells Park after only about 10 minutes... Approximately 1000 other walkers were with us at this stage
Signs were everywhere...
At the entrance to checkpoint 1. Had already done 10%... at this stage we thought this would be easy
Somewhere offroad
one of the many trail markers along the route... there was one approximately every 100m
My mum and dad brought us lunch at Checkpoint 2 at the 22.5 km mark
Going downhill... i tried reducing the impact on my knees by tightening my muscles and bending my knees... we still had a long way to go at this stage and knee pain would be a common problem for many people later on
walking walking walking...
We reached checkpoint 4 at about 9 or 10pm i think... you can see from the sign that it was at the 45km mark. Thats where we had dinner
Leaving Checkpoint 4 for the last leg of the day ... Checkpoint 5, at the 60km mark, would be where we setup tent
Reached checkpoint 5 somewhere between 2am and 3am. We were absolutely knackered. I couldn't be bothered taking proper pics, but there were lots of people, lots of tents, and lots of dunnies
Airing my feet at checkpoint 5....
Wang getting his blisters taped up before we headed off in the morning. We would start walking again at 7.30am ...
One of the many never ending roads the next morning ... this was somewhere between checkpoint 5 and 6
more walking
The entrance to checkpoint 6. This is where we had breakfast.... Psychologically, checkpoint 5 to 6 was the most difficult even though it wasn't the longest... it was extremely boring and monotonous and our legs were aching after the previous days 60km
Pete wore a costume as a fund-raising exercise
The rest stop between checkpoint 6 and 7. They had hot tea and sandwiches. It was a cold day, so stopping for long wasn't a good idea. The view was nice though 
Pete and his posse that greeted us at checkpoint 7. We had done 93km by this stage... only 7km left to go!!
Winga was there too ... we ate pork rolls for dinner
Finally we can see the finishing line at the top of the last killer hill!
The finishing line! At about 8pm
Taking an official photo
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