One funny thing about training to walk 100kms, is that any distance that used to sound absurd, now seems tiny.

Team Happy Feet was out in force at the Cape Kidnappers Challenge in the Hawkes Bay over the weekend (also hanging around was my fav gym buddy Amy and her family).

The walk is amazing, it goes right along the beach, up over some fairly steep hills, then down and through a bunch of river crossing that had a maximum of waist height.

The funny thing is (and we were by no means racing – you just need to examine the thousands of photo ops we made the most of along the way), that it WASN’T HARD.

Yes, my feet were tired, and we went to bed early that night. But at no point did I feel huge pain, exhaustion or even overly tired. On the hills, we went slow and steady, and managed to overtake a bunch of people who looked like they were struggling more than us (and bear in mind 2 of us are around the 60 year mark and one of us was me, who isn’t really known to be an athlete).

I’m totally stoked, and totally on the bandwagon of people who try to convince people that it’s not that hard to DO these things that seem somewhat impossible when you initially look at them. And as Graeme Harre likes to remind me, in what has become our motto “train hard, race easy’

We finished in a time of 5:45:35.