Hello Ladies! The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer is only 10 days away! What should you be doing from now until then?
1. Keep up with your training, but remember to decrease your training as it gets closer. If you have not done much in the way of training, go on a 15-30 minute walk each day to get your muscles moving and to break in all of your walking gear and shoes!
2. Stay hydrated in the days leading up to the walk.
3. Avoid drinking alcohol and caffeine, if you can.
4. Don't change your diet in the 10 days up to the event, especially during the final week. Although you should try to eat less protein and more carbohydrates.
5. Check the packing list in the Participant Guide that Avon gives you and on this blog and make sure you have everything you need.
6. Have some stories in mind to tell one another - we have 39.3 miles to chat!
7. Stretch and take care of yourself - we don't want any injuries before (or during or after) the walk!
8. The night before the walk, eat a meal high in carbohydrates and get a good night's rest - we have to be at Solider Field by 6:00 a.m. on the Saturday of the walk.
Can't wait for us all to cross the finish line!
Jen
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Volume 10 - Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Training Tips
Hello Ladies!
Many of you have asked about what you should have with you on the walk. About.com: Walking published a great article and I have added some things to it:
1. Pack - Decide what kind of pack you want to carry with you - last year Anna had a small backpack and Kristine and I had little running type fanny packs (not as nerdy as they sound). Remember that Avon has snacks and first aid at every other rest stop and you will not want to carry a lot for 39 miles.
2. Water Bottle - you need a wide mouth water bottle so you can refill it easily at each rest stop. It is best to strap on your water bottle or put it in your fanny pack or backpack rather than carrying it in your hand, as a pound of water in your hand can strain your shoulder, elbow, and wrist.
3. ID.
4. Tissues - whether it's your nose dripping, your eyes watering, or no toilet paper in the restroom, you are likely to need a tissue along the walk.
5. Money - just in case you need to stop and buy something along the walk route.
6. Cell Phone - but remember that we cannot use cell phones or ipods on the walk - but it may be nice to have the cell phone just in case we get separated.
7. Lip Balm & Sunscreen - I think they have this at some of the rest stations, but may be best if at least one of us has this.
8. Extra socks - we changed our socks at lunchtime and tossed our old ones. Remember - you need non-cotton, wicking socks!
9. Body glide and mole skin - they have mole skin at the first aid stations, but we stopped a few times to reapply body glide on our feet so we wouldn't get blisters and mole skin where blisters had started to form.
10. Medications - I brought my inhaler, just in case. We also carried ibuprofen with us - but they did have this at the rest stations.
Keep up your training!
Jen
Many of you have asked about what you should have with you on the walk. About.com: Walking published a great article and I have added some things to it:
1. Pack - Decide what kind of pack you want to carry with you - last year Anna had a small backpack and Kristine and I had little running type fanny packs (not as nerdy as they sound). Remember that Avon has snacks and first aid at every other rest stop and you will not want to carry a lot for 39 miles.
2. Water Bottle - you need a wide mouth water bottle so you can refill it easily at each rest stop. It is best to strap on your water bottle or put it in your fanny pack or backpack rather than carrying it in your hand, as a pound of water in your hand can strain your shoulder, elbow, and wrist.
3. ID.
4. Tissues - whether it's your nose dripping, your eyes watering, or no toilet paper in the restroom, you are likely to need a tissue along the walk.
5. Money - just in case you need to stop and buy something along the walk route.
6. Cell Phone - but remember that we cannot use cell phones or ipods on the walk - but it may be nice to have the cell phone just in case we get separated.
7. Lip Balm & Sunscreen - I think they have this at some of the rest stations, but may be best if at least one of us has this.
8. Extra socks - we changed our socks at lunchtime and tossed our old ones. Remember - you need non-cotton, wicking socks!
9. Body glide and mole skin - they have mole skin at the first aid stations, but we stopped a few times to reapply body glide on our feet so we wouldn't get blisters and mole skin where blisters had started to form.
10. Medications - I brought my inhaler, just in case. We also carried ibuprofen with us - but they did have this at the rest stations.
Keep up your training!
Jen
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