We all made an effort with fancy dress of tutus, tiaras and glitter, on arrival there was merchandise to purchase to further add to your fancy dress. The only rule seemed to be that it HAD to be pink! Diane made an incredible effort topping her outfit off with flashing noodle hair!
The atmosphere at the University was great with opportunities to have your photo taken with a cuddly character or your face painted and hair styled. Music was playing and room buzzed with excitement as 1200 ladies prepared for the 15 mile challenge.
Soon it was time for our safety briefing and warm up before setting out from the start line, the glorious sunshine and warmth of the day made a lovely warm, dry evening which was perfect for walking. Our route took us all over Plymouth with wonderful marshals helping us along by directing, assisting, encouraging, handing out bottles of water and most importantly sweets! The walk most definitely wouldn’t be possible without these wonderful people.
We crossed the finish line at 2.20am finishing our walk in 4 hours 20 minutes, again the atmosphere at the finish line was fantastic, marshals and organisers who had now been standing outside for hours welcomed us in with cheers and celebrations, we were each awarded with a medal and better still a ticket for a slice of pizza which Dominoes had kindly donated for each participant.
The evening was enjoyed by all, 2451 ladies took part in the various walk distances (there was a 7 or 3 mile option too) and an amazing £200,000 is estimated to have been raised in total. Here at the practice we raised over £900 for the charity so a huge thank you goes to all our friends, family and lovely patients who sponsored us and also to the organisers of the event for doing such a fantastic job making the evening enjoyable for all and raising a tremendous amount of money for the charity.
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