Two Aussies and a Two seater bike named "Happier".
My wife Sharon and I, are Australians in our late 40's, and are excited to finally be visiting the IOM for the Parish Walk in 2024. This has been on our bucket list since becoming aware of the event in 2015, at, of all places, the USA centurion walk in Minneapolis. Shaz and I were never very athletic. But in our early 30's we realised we couldn't keep getting heavier and more unfit. Our diet and lifestyle needed change, and the easiest way for us to do that, was to start running. Shaz got good at that, and represented Australia 8 times at 24 Hour World Championships, Commonwealth Championships and Asian / Oceania Championships. In 2010, she was awared the title of World Female Ultra Athlete of the Year, by the International governing body, the International Association of Ultrarunners. Sharon's best is a few metres short of 225km of running in 24 hours (near enough to 140 miles). Of course the Parish walk isn't a run. But the background is important. Perhaps.