Search canberratimes: Search in: Reclaiming life, many steps at a time Megan Doherty Lily Troupe, a social worker from Calvary Hospital, will walk about 15km from Forde to work at Bruce for Walk to Work Day tomorrow. Photo: Melissa Adams There's walking to work. And then there's trekking almost 15km from the front door to the desk. Social worker Lily Troupe intends to use tomorrow's Walk to Work Day to step out the 14.8km from her home in Forde to her workplace, the Calvary Public Hospital at Bruce, taking mostly off-road options to get there. She'll leave about 4.30am to ensure she gets to work by 7.30am, in time for a shower so she can be at her desk by 8.30am. Ms Troupe plans to leave home at 4.30am to ensure she is showered and at her desk by 8.30. Photo: Melissa Adams Luckily her daughter Andriana, 19, also works at the hospital, as a ward clerk. Advertisement "So she can drive me home on Friday afternoon - with a sore bum," Ms Troupe said, with a laugh. The epic walk is just another chapter in Ms Troupe's journey to lose weight and reclaim her life. It's also a precursor to a walkathon she is helping to stage on November 10 from Calvary John James Hospital in Deakin to Calvary's Public Hospital in Bruce, raising money to ship equipment to the Kintambo Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "One of our doctors is from that area and he studied