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May 21, 2009

"It's the final countdown...da da da da..." & we're off.

Okey dokey, almost time! 1 more sleep and we won't be sleeping for quite some time. 9am tomorrow we start the 100km of madness and based on our hopelessly slow pace we are aiming to finish 2am Sunday morning (final time limit is 9am).Then it's party time! To all our FABULOUS friends, supporters, family, SUPPORT crew/visitors and everyone else sharing in this experience, we can't thank you all enough for your generosity, encouragement and LOVE. Thank you for always being there for us and sharing in our many, varied, endeavors. Still can't quite believe we are doing this. You are all with us! Can't wait to see our friends along the way. We look forward to thanking you all in person sometime very soon. So far, thanks to you all we have raised more than 130,000 yen for Oxfam. Thank you so much!

We will try and do mobile updates of our progress for the blog while on the course...and Trace will check in on Facebook with her legendary status updates. Friday still looks rainy. But we're keeping positive. Still packing, thinking of you all and at this point more than slightly delirious.Don't even ask about the team t-shirts....Oh and they say money can't buy you happiness...but we beg to differ...Daiso has it for only 100yen and we're setting out to prove this while on the course...Oh, yes, get ready for 100km of POSES!!!

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Plus HUGE THANKS, and BIG Hugs to our recent donors via our Justgiving page and in person:
Tam - twice! WOW! Thank you sooooooooooooo much!
Yoshiko
Yoshiko
Yoshiko (yes, 3 different Yoshiko's!)
and Motoko!
Thank you all so much. You are all WONDERFUL!!!

With much love,
Dee, Tracey, Nat, Ness & Verdi

Today's walking inspired track:
We are the Champions -Queen (and The Soundtracks...not at all deluded...)

Today's walking inspired quote:
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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I've just seen the Oxfam update and read that you had to pull out at CP6 - that's just not fair!
We last saw you talking your way up the hill to CP6.

Hopefully you got to see Fuji above the clouds between CP4 & 5 which was truly spectacular!

Well Done
Jonathan - Team 121.

Posted by: Jonathan Burson | May 25, 2009 at 04:32 PM

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