It's been a busy week at Bodilogix and the campaign surrounding the Hike for Health: No Cop Out Challenge! On Monday the Sarge and I were interviewed at the COGECO studio for the show Municipal Matters...thanks Mark and Dave. The interview will be shown I believe six different times this week so hopefully you can catch one of them. The Sarge was in good form...I think I said three words!
On Tuesday we had the official media launch for the Hike for Health...most of the organizing committee were on hand and we were able to get a group photo which was great. Thanks to Peggy (Northumberland News), Ted (Northumberland Today) Susan (The Breeze and Star) and the ladies from SNAP for showing up and reporting on our message! Without the help from our local media partners this fund raising would be futile! I would be remiss if I also didn't thank Ben for the BURD REPORT...he has kept a link to my site on his blog since we started!

Yesterday we went on our 30 k hike...ouch! Actually I mean...friggin ouch! The last 2 k were killing me! Also we had run out of water at the 20 k marker...felt like we were walking in the Sahara! I noticed all the water running off the farmers fields and I was debating how bad would it be to drink some of that...sure a little pesticide, acid rain and cow ploppings doesn't sound very thirst quenching right now but it came very close to that then!! The last 2 k had us walking up a washed out seasonal road...we were trying to jump from one dry area to the next which was usually not dry at all...sunk into the mud just below the ankles! Needless to say this part of the route will be changed for next Fridays hike. We were finally greeted at the end of the route by Tanya Earle who provided a ride back in to town but also all the water we could drink!

A special mention needs to be made of Chris Littlechild...it was his first hike with us and the damn guy was running up the hills during the last 2 k's! I would have thrown a rock at him if he hadn't just given me his last few droplets of water!

oh yeah...I lost the two pounds that I had gained last week. Hoping for a big loss next week!

We all lived to walk another day!
Big Dave out