WE CAN'T GET OVER ..........

.........the weather! What a glorious week!

The good news is - our bras have arrived - along with our numbers (not too sure where we are to put these as in theory we will only be wearing a bra and tracky bottoms !!). We immediately "dashed" off to to purchase some items to decorate the bras with. Pink feather boas are the order of the day. We have to dye our bras first - so I have bought some 'electric pink' dye - I havent decorated a bra before, but I feel sure it can't be difficult, can it !

We have also received our 'registration' for the Star Walk in Kendal on the 9th May 2009. Fortunately for this event we don't need to docorate a bra and we just have T-shirts to wear. The star walk is a week before our marathon so we are using this as part of our 'training'. We are hoping to finish in a decent time and then have an easy week on the run-up to the 16th.

We are doing a 20-mile walk next Saturday (25th April). The plan is for Paul (Joanne's husband) to drop us off at Mum's in Hawkshead. She is going to supply us with a bacon buttie each (and some tiffin). We then plan to walk to the ferry at Sawrey. This was the plan, but I have just read the local paper and the ferry closes this weekend for its annual, well, not exactly annual, but 5-year service (I wish my car only had a 5-year service, it would be much cheaper). There is still supposed to be a ferry for foot passengers, but its about 5 miles from where Mum lives, so don't really want to walk there to find we can't get across the lake! (Mum will have to be on standby to come and collect us). Anyway, hoping we get over on the ferry, its onto the Crook road towards Kendal, but we are going to take a left turning towards Burneside over the bypass and then pop into Burneside, over to the shap road and then head our way back to Natland - easy peasy. Tom is on standby at some stage of our walk - he said he will bring us drinks and a sandwich - I think he thinks we are just going for a picnic!

Of course, this time next week we will have done it (I DO sound confident don't I!).

Did you know that walking (or running) a marathon is 65% mental and 35% physical..... no neither did I...... until I started to train for this marathon.

Thats it until next week, apart from - I thought Ronaldo's goal last week was superb and I hope they win today.

Over and out - Jude xx