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Day 6 – They’ve made it!!!

Neil — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:12:10 +0000

Just a quick post, as I hand you back over to Dan, to say that they made the finish line today at about 2.30pm looking tired, aching but pleased. Rachael, myself, Lydia, Eve, Kerry, Natalie and Caroline were all there to give them a round of applause! To say that we are proud would be a huge understatement. They have all done so well, each and every one of them. Well done guys.

More video is available on itvlocal.com and also at youtube.com/thejosephsalmontrust.

We’ll have clips of the finish as soon as we can!

Back to you Dan……….

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Civilisation is reached at last – Day Five

Neil — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:03:43 +0000

Dan and Co. have now reached Kendal at the end of Day Five and are rewarding themselves with a very well deserved chinese meal. Only ten more miles to go now. Hopefully tomorrow at lunchtime they will make their way towards the bench which marks the end of the Dales Way in Bowness. Myself, Rachael, Lydia and Eve along with Dan’s wife Kerry and Lee’s wife Natalie will be amongst the party at the finish! They have done so well.

More video should be posted by the team at ITV Local tomorrow with the big finish going online on Tuesday. I’ll try and do what I can to get it on youtube too. Although that won’t be tomorrow as I’m not in work.

I’ll leave you with Dan’s twitterings from the past 36 hours or so.

Now we have reached civilisation we’re planning on making the most of it and are going for a chinese 1900 from txt

Arrived in kendal with no further problems other than our ongoing blisters and general aches. 1900 from txt
Today hasn’t actually been as bad as i thought it would be. 1400 from txt
Stopped for lunch. five miles left to go today, fifteen in total. 1400 from txt
Fourteen miles today. Then ten tomorrow. Then i am never bloody walking anywhere again. 0800 from txt
Decided to keep with the group today so they can carry me if i need them to. They don’t know this yet. 0600 from txt
Rest assured you are all getting a lot of misery for all your sponsorship money. 05:25 PM July 26, 2008 from txt
In other news i stubbed my toe and my toenail has gone black. 05:24 PM July 26, 2008 from txt
I’m going to get up early and set off before the others tomorrow in an effort not to slow them down. 05:22 PM July 26, 2008 from txt
The backs of my knees were in agony all through the eight miles of today’s walk. 05:20 PM July 26, 2008 from txt
I think i did something nasty to my left calf yesterday, maybe even tore it. 05:19 PM July 26, 2008 from txt
End of the fourth day. I am feeling very very bad indeed. Now we have to put up the tents. 14 miles tomorrow. 02:38 PM July 26, 2008 from txt

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Day Two

Day Four – This is twice as hard as I thought

Neil — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:06:14 +0000

I have received many twitterings from Dan this morning and even managed to get through to him on his phone as they reach an area with better mobile reception. He told me that Sandip has had to drop out and has headed home.

Anyway as the twitters are not appearing properly on this site, I’ll copy and paste them……

Around half way though day three it started to get very hard. I have rather large blisters and what feels like highly strung wire instea …12.32 from txt
This is twice as hard as i thought it was going to be, so i think everyone should donate twice the money as well. 12.30 from txt
We’ve lost sandip, he decided that he’d rather sleep at home than with nine other men in a boiling hot bunkbarn. 12.28 from txt
Sorry about the lack of updates, i haven’t had a mobile signal for the past couple of days. 12.20 from txt

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Absolutely Buggered…..

Neil — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:38:27 +0000

I’m pleased to say that Dan and his band of merry men are still alive – received the following twitter this morning:

Day three and two miles into the fifteen we have to do i am absolutely buggered

And to prove that they have actualy set off……I have some footage from day one!! I’ve tried and failed to embed – so click here please!!!

More footage including this at a higher quality can be found at itvlocal.com/yorkshire. My colleagues have enabled the ITV site so that it can now be seen from countries outside the UK. Although I’m told there may be problems with Macs………

We won’t receive any more video now until Monday when I’ll do my best to post some more on here, ITV Local and You Tube. Also when and if they make it back….I’ll edit together a highlights film that I’ll stick on You Tube.

Mobile reception remains a problem today with no signal for any of the walkers for most of the day but just managed to talk to Gavin and Kerry who said that they’re all looking tired now but enjoying it! Apparently the accomodation tonight leaves a lot to be desired!!!

Hope to be able to update further tomorrow….

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Day Two

Neil — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:56:53 +0000

Well it’s the end of day two and all has been fairly quiet. I spoke with Dan this morning and he said they had missed the last post yesterday which means I have no video to post. But the good news is that we’ll have a double whammy of footage to show tomorrow!!
His twitterings have been few and far between today due to the limited mobile reception in the Dales. In fact I’ve not had word from the walkers since lunchtime today when Dan texted:

Stopped for lunch after doing six miles. Only ten more to do today. Bugger

I know today was going to be a tough old slog for the gang as it was 17 miles or so of uphill struggle…..maybe they’re still walking now!! I guess we’ll have to wait until the tapes come rolling in to find out!!

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My Feet Hurt

Neil — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:56:11 +0000

Right, now that I have control of Dan’s blog and while he’s away…I can let you into a few secrets about him……on second thoughts he knows far too much about me..!
Hopefully by this time tomorrow we should have received their first piece of video which will be posted on itvlocal.com/yorkshire – for those in the UK… and on youtube.com/thejosephsalmontrust for everyone else. It should also appear here too!

I know Dan has thanked everyone for sponsoring him and his team, but I wanted to say thank you too. For myself and Rachael the past three and a bit years have been extremely difficult. Launching the charity has been our way of trying to offer a small amount of help to other parents in a similar situation and also to keep Joseph’s name alive. I find it hard to express how grateful I am for all the support that we have received. So, thank you for everyone that has sponsored Dan and co. and for the kind words that have been written on blogs around the world. We try and read them all.

Today, I thought that I would list the twitterings of Dan on Day One. Here goes.

We’re off!
The problem with taking photo’s is that every time you stop to take one all the other buggers leave you behind.
We’ve stopped for lunch. Or at least half of us have. We all got separated about five miles back and the faster four have powered ahead.
There’s a search helicopter above us. Thank’s for the concern but I don’t think we’re at that stage yet.
Bloody bastard hills.
Finally caught up with the super fast group. Only to find they have been filling the video tape with ‘interesting facts’ i am very very … ..
We’ve done the first day. Seventeen miles down and far to many left to go. My feet hurt.

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