Summary
Clare Balding continues her series exploring epic walks, by joining four women as they take their final training walk before they set off to complete the eighty-two mile Essex Way, in just three days. Rebecca Rose and her friends have been training since Christmas to walk from Epping to Harwich. They're walking in aid of a local charity close to their hearts, Essex and Herts Air Ambulance. Four years ago Rebecca's daughter Katy's fiancé was involved in an accident at work, he was treated and air lifted to a London hospital by the local air ambulance. Although he sadly died, the family remain very grateful that they attended, as they know he received the best possible care. Katy was pregnant at the time and grandson, Oscar will be there to encourage the walkers at the beginning and end of the walk.
Producer Lucy Lunt.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me. Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings. |
| 0:09.6 | I do love a village with character and that character can come from the buildings, it can come from the people or it can come from the animal life and just pausing to peer over this garden wall. |
| 0:20.4 | There's a duck pond down below |
| 0:21.8 | and as you would expect ducks geese there are dubs actually up on the roof of the pink cottage |
| 0:27.2 | and rather less common is an emu that is running very fast in circuits around the garden |
| 0:34.3 | this is the village of tollsbury in essex, right on the east coast of England, |
| 0:39.6 | just north of the Blackwater Estuary. If you carry on going east from here, you'd hit Clacton-on-Sea, |
| 0:45.2 | and it's got the most lovely old 16th century, some of them, cottages. And ahead of me, a group of |
| 0:51.2 | four women dressed in blue, green, pink and black raincoats because |
| 0:57.0 | we've been warned of showers. In fact, there are just a few flakes of snow coming down, which is |
| 1:01.0 | bizarre for spring. |
| 1:02.0 | So this is Becky, Jenny, Dye and Sandra. |
| 1:06.0 | And together you are undertaking a big challenge starting tomorrow. What are you doing? |
| 1:11.4 | We are walking the Essex Way from Epping to Harwich, 82 miles. |
| 1:18.2 | So three days of roughly 27 miles. |
| 1:22.1 | Did you not want to take it easier and do it over four days or five days? |
| 1:25.4 | We didn't have the time. |
| 1:26.5 | We can't take time off work. |
| 1:28.9 | So we've just got to cram it in. |
| 1:31.3 | So bank holiday was ideal, but obviously bank holiday weather's forecast. |
| 1:35.6 | Yes, as happens to me. |
| 1:36.9 | So you've been training hard for this, have you? |
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