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Idle mums step out on 'bra' walk
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They may go under the name Idle Mums but these women are proving they are anything but.
The nine mums, who formed a group because they all have children who attend Idle Primary School, are pounding the streets and the tow path of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal in preparation for a 26.3-mile charity walk to raise money for breast cancer research.
They decided to enter the London Playtex MoonWalk after a mum at the school was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Another also lost her mother to breast cancer.
One of the mums taking part, Karen Hammonds, 43, of Coppice View, Idle, said: "It made us realise that it could have been any one of us and we thought this would be the perfect thing to do."
The mums are not taking their mission lightly either - they have been in formal training to make sure they are up to the task.
They started off doing a 20-minute mile but are now down to a 15-minute mile. Today they were planning a 20-mile walk to test their pace.
"We have been practising now for the last ten weeks and have covered over 170 miles in over 40-odd hours of walking," said Karen.
"We expect the walk will take us around seven to eight hours to complete at the pace we have been doing."
The event takes place on Saturday, May 17 and will see 15,000 bra-clad women setting off at midnight from Hyde Park and walking 26.3 miles under the light of the moon.
Walk the Walk is the grant-making health charity behind the famous MoonWalk events which take place across the world. To date the charity has raised in excess of £35 million for vital breast cancer causes.
Another Idle mum Helen Thomas added: "We are doing it because we have a friend at school who was diagnosed last year with breast cancer. And my mum died in 1999 - she was 61.
"She will be very much in my thoughts - she will be spurring me on."
To support the mums visit their website at www.bmycharity.com /V2/idlemumsandco
e-mail: claire.lomax
@telegraphandargus.co.uk
3:20am Monday 5th May 2008
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