An innocent invitation, from the Deputy Chief Executive, asking if anyone was interested in taking a little walk in May!! The Council, as a first responder in the event of civil emergency, was invited to participate in a community engagement event organised by the 22nd Signal Regiment. For our part we were expected to walk for a charity of our choice, collecting a minimum of £100 per walker . We have now chosen to support the Midland Air Ambulance Charity.
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In January 8 colleagues met to discuss the invitation. By the end of the meeting we had agreed we would enter a team for the event. Now for the hard part!!
Training started on Sunday 8th February on a cold, crisp, sunny day, as 9 intrepid walkers met at the Council Offices to walk 8 miles to Brewood and back. The highlight was definitely the drink in the pub at the end of the 2+ hour walk!!
Since then some people have come and gone, but despite the increasing intensity of the training we still have the necessary number of people interested to enter a team. We have now completed two 26 mile walks over the preceding weekends. We are under no illusion as to the enormity of the task, not only to walk 30+ miles on day one, but to follow it up with another 24 miles on day 2 and a whopping 36 miles to complete day 3.
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