32km and a whole lot of stats

So I made this challenge for myself for my birthday: to walk 32km. I make weird challenges for myself, don't think about them until the day before then just go and do them. This goal was moreso a personal challenge for me: I've only ever walked or ran 11km before and I thought it'd be a 'nice' representative-y thing to do to celebrate my birthday. #yesimaweirdo

Well finding 6-7 hours free to fit this in proved a challenge - and I have put it off and put it off for almost 2 months now.  Until today.

I did it!

I mapped my walk beforehand and decided to tie it in with parkrun which I had planned to do today. I decided the 5km from parkrun could be included in the 32. I also wanted to try and get a personal best of 35min.-something at parkrun- or at least under 37:30. Yeah good one Kate - try and get a PB amidst a 32km walk? Well, I did it. I walked/ran the 32km and also got my PB. Such a big morning. Here are my stats:

The awesome Bron & Court

32: How many km's I planned to walk/run.

33.11: How many km's I ended up walking/running.

3:10: What time I got out of bed.

4:23: What time I left my house.

10:00: What time I thought I'd get home.

11:45: What time I actually got home.

7:22: Elapsed hours on my Polar including breaks, parkrun & traffic lights.

6: Breaks/times I stopped. Before and after parkrun, 2 sunscreen breaks and 2 "I need to rest" breaks.

1: Number of taxi drivers who stopped and asked if I needed a lift when I was walking in the dark :)

2: Number of girls I saw along the way who I haven't seen since school! 1 was doing parkrun...the other was drunk outside a club :)

5: The number of houses I walked past that I used to live in.

21: Approximately the number of shops/Churches/buildings etc that I walked past that I hadn't noticed before. You see so much stuff when you just walk. Interesting things just down the road from me that I never see when zooming last in my car.

4: Litres of water that I drank while walking.

0: The amount of times I needed to go to the toilet. A radiographer recently told me I apparently have some kind of supersonic bladder...

1: % of phone battery I had when I got home!

48:48: My first 5km run time in September.

41: My parkrun 5km run time on Brisbane finale weekend.

38:19: My Mooloolaba 5km run time from last weekend.

35:31: My time today baby!

2: The beautiful girls who coached my running towards the end of parkrun. Today was struggle street.

0: How many injuries I got!

2: How many arms now have a stinging rash from rubbing on my sweat damp shirt & backpack :(

2: The gorgeous friends / 12WBTers who met up along my 32km path and walked some of it with me - actually they walked a lot and I'm so proud of them.

1: Times I thought I might throw up while running.

16: How many times I was thankful my brother has awesome taste in music as I borrowed his iPod as mine broke in the triathlon water incident.

10: On a scale from 1-10 how much my butt, legs and feet currently hurt. Joking, but they are really sore!

3121: Calories I burnt!

91: Photos I took.

38: The number of which were selfies ;)

15: How many minutes it took after getting home to end up in an Epsom Salt bath.

:)

So that's how it was! All done now. I'm not about to go and do that again- that was a special occasion for sure. I am really proud I did it though and of my 35min time.

I have to rest up now...the rest of the days activities involve sitting in my car, at a restaurant and at a theatre so it shouldn't be too strenuous. Which is good because tomorrow is a bit of an exercise filled day: Sunshine Coast Margie boot camp / Mish and Commando workout / 10km Brisbane Twilight Running Festival. Lucky I love it, huh.

Off to pick up my race pack for tomorrow...see ya x