Are you thinking of doing the Moonwalk in 2010?

I know, it happens in May and it's only September but as someone who has trained for long walks and someone who has trained others for long walks, taking the time to do it properly brings benefits.

All this has come about because a friend has asked me to work with her on getting her fit for 2010's Mooonwalk. We discussed that it would be more fun if more people get involved as then the training is never lonely and people can support each other especially in between the sessions I do with them.

So if you are thinking of doing it or know someone who is and if you or they live in East London/Essex then get them to call me on 020 8220 6919 or 07941 246619 so we can chat and discuss how this works.

Training will probably not start until Nov or Dec but I just want to get the word out and let people know that there's help and support.

Sometimes a task this size can render you paralysed as it's so big so we just need to break it down into chunks and take one step at a time.

Last year I trained Gill and Elaine and this is what they had to say -

" We felt that we had reached the time in our lives where we needed a challenge. Nothing so simple as a half marathon walk, no we decided to go for the big one 26miles to be exact
The Moonwalk!

We contacted Heather who undertook the task of training us both and we have had the experience of our lives. We thought that doing 26 miles was going to be easy, after all, it's just walking, and we would not have to do any training, how wrong we were. The training started gradually and is now more intense as the walk approaches.

Heather has given us so much information, help and advice on how to approach a walk of this length. Without this we would not be at the standard we are at present. We walk with Heather's walking group, the East End Girls who made us very welcome are looking forward to the Moonwalk now. And who knows this year London
next year New York!!!!

We would recommend anyone who wants to achieve a goal like us to contact Heather as soon as possible, you will love every minute."

- Elaine Aldridge and Gill Judah