Weekly Update 46 – Challenge Completed!
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thousandmilesblogWeek ending: 18/11/10 AKA the week I limped across the finish line
Lift your eyes
Where the roads dip and where the roads rise
Seek only there
Longer Walks Completed:
Walk 70 2.645 miles
Short Walks Completed
Journeys to/from work: 6 x 1.159 miles
Other journeys:
Walk to shop 1 x 1.220 miles and 1 x 2.434 miles
Walk to course at Salford Quays 1.102 miles
Park walks 1 x 2.893 miles and 1 x 2.967 miles
Comments on this week:
My sponsorship page for Rape Crisis is up at Just Giving.
So I still have this lousy cold, and this isn't quite the way I'd imagined finishing, but nevertheless I have. There will be a round-up post summarising how things went, along with some more information about my second charity, but for now I'm just going to say a few thank-yous and collapse in an ungainly heap for a few moments.
I'll probably forget someone important. If it's you, sorry about that.
Thank You
To my family, because all of this is your fault, in varying degrees and for various reasons. Especially my mum, to whom I owe much more than my very existence.
To everyone who has sponsored me, or is going to.
To everyone who has provided transport to and from walks, or provided good company, moral support and occasional sugar boosts during walks.
To everyone at Rape Crisis England and Wales, especially Chris, and everyone at Refuge, especially Harriet and Ebru. The world would be a much worse place without you.
To Saddleworth Pedestrians, Oldham Countryside Service, Tameside Countryside Service, the Peak District National Park Authority, the Ramblers Association (most notably the Stockport and Manchester and High Peak Area groups), the Green and Blue Badge tour guides of Manchester, Oldham PCT, Jill Liddington, Manchester Walking Women, Manchester Jessies, Spice Manchester, the National Trust, the Women's Institute, Million Women Rise and Herstoria Magazine.
To all the pubs and cafes who have provided refreshment along the way.
To Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Saddleworth, Manchester, London and North Wales, for being such scenic, interesting and generally lovely places to walk in.
To British wildlife and the British weather, for making it interesting.
To everyone who maintains footpaths, especially if you put nice gates in instead of stiles and make them easy for people with backpacks to get through.
To cyclists who slow down and use their bells, drivers who sit patiently while massive groups of ramblers cross the road in front of them, dog walkers who keep their pets under control, and everyone who smiles and says hello.
For daily inspiration, amusement and support via RSS:
Shakesville (the best thing on the World Wide Web)
The F Word Blog
A Kitchen of One's Own
Adventures in Applied Math
Backwards in High Heels
ECHIDNE of the Snakes
Fannie's Room
Female Science Professor
Feminist Frequency
Gender Across Borders
Girl Genius
Hollaback UK
Ms Magazine Blog
My Fault, I'm Female
Riot Nrrd
Sociological Images
Sportsister
The Curvature
Thus Spake Zuska
Feminist Hulk
Women's Views on News
This week's picture:
Launched a month before me, got somewhat further
Video of the week:
I was saving this for just this moment. Silent Monks Sing Hallelujah Chorus. If not for these guys I'd never have learned the words.
Quote of the week:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. – Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'm guessing that means I'm not finished exploring yet
Total distance completed this week: 20.215 miles (On target)
Distance completed to date: 1004.116 miles (Challenge completed!)
Evil Giraffe
Lift your eyes
Where the roads dip and where the roads rise
Seek only there
Longer Walks Completed:
Walk 70 2.645 miles
Short Walks Completed
Journeys to/from work: 6 x 1.159 miles
Other journeys:
Walk to shop 1 x 1.220 miles and 1 x 2.434 miles
Walk to course at Salford Quays 1.102 miles
Park walks 1 x 2.893 miles and 1 x 2.967 miles
Comments on this week:
My sponsorship page for Rape Crisis is up at Just Giving.
So I still have this lousy cold, and this isn't quite the way I'd imagined finishing, but nevertheless I have. There will be a round-up post summarising how things went, along with some more information about my second charity, but for now I'm just going to say a few thank-yous and collapse in an ungainly heap for a few moments.
I'll probably forget someone important. If it's you, sorry about that.
Thank You
To my family, because all of this is your fault, in varying degrees and for various reasons. Especially my mum, to whom I owe much more than my very existence.
To everyone who has sponsored me, or is going to.
To everyone who has provided transport to and from walks, or provided good company, moral support and occasional sugar boosts during walks.
To everyone at Rape Crisis England and Wales, especially Chris, and everyone at Refuge, especially Harriet and Ebru. The world would be a much worse place without you.
To Saddleworth Pedestrians, Oldham Countryside Service, Tameside Countryside Service, the Peak District National Park Authority, the Ramblers Association (most notably the Stockport and Manchester and High Peak Area groups), the Green and Blue Badge tour guides of Manchester, Oldham PCT, Jill Liddington, Manchester Walking Women, Manchester Jessies, Spice Manchester, the National Trust, the Women's Institute, Million Women Rise and Herstoria Magazine.
To all the pubs and cafes who have provided refreshment along the way.
To Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Saddleworth, Manchester, London and North Wales, for being such scenic, interesting and generally lovely places to walk in.
To British wildlife and the British weather, for making it interesting.
To everyone who maintains footpaths, especially if you put nice gates in instead of stiles and make them easy for people with backpacks to get through.
To cyclists who slow down and use their bells, drivers who sit patiently while massive groups of ramblers cross the road in front of them, dog walkers who keep their pets under control, and everyone who smiles and says hello.
For daily inspiration, amusement and support via RSS:
Shakesville (the best thing on the World Wide Web)
The F Word Blog
A Kitchen of One's Own
Adventures in Applied Math
Backwards in High Heels
ECHIDNE of the Snakes
Fannie's Room
Female Science Professor
Feminist Frequency
Gender Across Borders
Girl Genius
Hollaback UK
Ms Magazine Blog
My Fault, I'm Female
Riot Nrrd
Sociological Images
Sportsister
The Curvature
Thus Spake Zuska
Feminist Hulk
Women's Views on News
This week's picture:
Launched a month before me, got somewhat further
Video of the week:
I was saving this for just this moment. Silent Monks Sing Hallelujah Chorus. If not for these guys I'd never have learned the words.
Quote of the week:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. – Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'm guessing that means I'm not finished exploring yet
Total distance completed this week: 20.215 miles (On target)
Distance completed to date: 1004.116 miles (Challenge completed!)
Evil Giraffe
