Walk in her shoes – a reflection on the week
So another Walk In Her Shoes week is over; my third time participating in this event for CARE Australia. I love the idea behind the challenge: to walk 100km (or the distance of your choice) to raise funds for CARE’s work in countries where women and girls miss out...
Walk in her shoes – Days 6 and 7
Yesterday I thought I was feeling better so, while I had my chance, I went for a long morning walk along the walking track. This time I decided to do the whole track. I knew I wouldn’t have much time to walk later in the day so I had...
12 of 12 March 2016 – Part 2
Part 1 of this post, in which I try to get into the habit of an earlier bedtime, is here. The story continues . . . I decided that, even though I wasn’t feeling so good, I’d get up and go for a walk this morning. Slabs suggested I...
Walk in her shoes – half way
Today is Day 4 of my 20,000 steps challenge for Care Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes. To date my step counts are: Tuesday: 21,146 Wednesday: 22,438 Thursday: 21,199 Getting struck down with a cold on Wednesday was unexpected and unwanted. If it’s my body’s way of telling me to...
Walk in her shoes – Day 2
I woke up at that unspeakable hour this morning to hear an unusual rumbling. At first I thought it was trucks, but didn’t take too long to work out it was thunder, accompanied by a huge lightning show out the kitchen window. Well I wasn’t about to go outside...
Walk in her shoes – Day 1
Day 1 of Walk In Her Shoes. It’s finally here! I got up at an hour that most people would be fast asleep (this is becoming my new normal anyway so I can get things done in the morning that I’d never do if I slept later, but that’s...
Walk in her shoes – 2 days to go
The Walk In Her Shoes challenge starts on Tuesday. I thought that Tuesday was a strange day to start, and it’s taken me several weeks to realise that Tuesday is International Women’s Day. Because the focus of the challenge is on helping to fund projects that “help reduce the...
Walking (imperfectly) in her shoes – 2016
It’s almost March, and that means it’s time to dust off the walking shoes and start training for the Care Australia Walk In Her Shoes Challenge. This will be the third year I’ve participated in the challenge, which will take place between 8-14 March. In 2014, my first year,...
Walk in her shoes wrapup
Walk In Her Shoes is over for 2015. I’ve had a great time taking part, despite the blisters or callouses or whatever they are causing me some problems over the week. I’m not sure what’s going on there, but maybe if I walk a bit less in some different...
Walk In Her Shoes – Day 7
Well, this is it – the end of a journey that started back in January when I signed up to do CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge for the second year. Since then I’ve been gradually increasing my daily step goal from 13,000 in January to 25,000 for...