Training Walk: Dolforwyn Castle
Today I walked with my Mum from my parents' house to the ruins of Dolforwyn Castle, which like most castles sits at the top of a steep climb. I wish I could say we reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap, but realistically it was more of a trudge with Mum following me. The first primroses aren't out yet but the woods were sprinkled with snowdrops in their little clumps, and as well as the calf born at the farm we saw a few lambs out in the fields already.
I spent a reasonable amount of the walk checking how slowly we seemed to be walking on my tracking app and accusing Mum of slowing me down- but when we got back and I noted we'd still been almost an hour quicker than the route planners anticipated, we put our route through Naismith's rule and established we took a grand 1 minute 47 seconds longer than that would predict. I feel this bodes well for my ability to predict how long my stages will take me once I've actually plotted route!
Blister count: 3, all healed, none new
Boot cost per mile: £5.07
I spent a reasonable amount of the walk checking how slowly we seemed to be walking on my tracking app and accusing Mum of slowing me down- but when we got back and I noted we'd still been almost an hour quicker than the route planners anticipated, we put our route through Naismith's rule and established we took a grand 1 minute 47 seconds longer than that would predict. I feel this bodes well for my ability to predict how long my stages will take me once I've actually plotted route!
Blister count: 3, all healed, none new
Boot cost per mile: £5.07
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