{"id":309,"date":"2005-06-22T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T12:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2005-06-22T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T12:33:20","slug":"thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who sponsored me. A venerable mixture of work colleagues, <em>Who<\/em> fans, LibDems and assorted friends took the total raised to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkforlife.co.uk\/willh\">over \u00a3250<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The walk itself was a bit of a trial. In principle, walking 10km should have taken me under two hours and been quite relaxing. Three factors mitigated against this though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walking with over 4,500 other people, at the speed of the slowest.<\/li>\n<li>Carrying my rucksack.<\/li>\n<li>Wearing black as the temperature reached 33&#176;C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the plus side, we did finish in the end (two-and-three-quarter hours after starting), at which point we took our rewards &#8211; a copy of <em>Heat<\/em>, a drink and three Bourbon biscuits &#8211; and retired to Jubilee Gardens by the London Eye.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/danandi.jpg\" alt=\"Dan and I on the south bank\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although I look cheerful in the photo, my legs were killing me. They&#8217;re much better now although still a bit painful. But, hey, it&#8217;s for charity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who sponsored me. 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