I have been in a self-designed pause since coming back to South Africa in late July 2014, resisting getting into a new project, or planning a holiday or thinking about a new destination. It has not been a comfortable place to be in as I love the possibility that all of the above provides me.
The priority was to reconnect with my family and friends, to make my spaces feel like home again and just picking up where I left off. Fred and I have travelled many, many thousands of kilometres across South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe since coming back, being part of special events; a wedding, a funeral, birthdays, many special days and many ordinary days along the way.
And all this time I paused, not directing my energy or passion in any one direction.
The pause is done.
Fred was telling me about Andy, a friend, who today, in Egypt, has started to cycle the length of Africa. I was thinking, I do not cycle but I walk.
August will also be the start of the last year in my fifties and I feel like a challenge to mark this milestone.
My challenge will be to complete an Ultra Walk:
301 kilometres in 10 days.
The starting date will be 15th August.The place will be Namaqualand among the beautiful carpets of spring flowers.
Training starts today. I will be on the road walking.
I am excited, energised, nervous, anxious about my feet, my knee, I will blog, I will list, I will find good food along the roads, I will bird watch, I will immerse myself as only I can do.
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. ~Jules Renard
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