Training Walk: down by the canal
I went for a walk again yesterday - third day in a row- and waited to write about it in case saying how fine I felt somehow cosmically jinxed the whole thing and caused me to wake up with rigor mortis or something this morning. I did not, and I'm walking around (indoors) quite comfortably today, and I feel really quite smug.
Yesterday's walk was not entirely fine, though. I like canal towpaths, which is good because I'll be walking along quite a few miles of them over the summer, because they are flat and often well-maintained and often cycle routes and because I essentially really like ducks and swans and moorhens and coots, even if I can never remember how to tell the difference between the latter two. So I was quite happy striding off along this flat, smooth, well-maintained slightly gravelly path between the old canal and the river Severn. But the soles of my feet started to ache around mile four, and by eleven-and-a-half miles I would have really, really liked to stop walking - it is possible that walking over 50 miles in three days is a little excessive. However I kept going, hitting 55 miles in three days in total. The last three miles were made a bit easier by the fact that I knew I was being picked up in the car to go for tea and cake with my Mum, so I marched through the last bit. The big problem came when I had to get out of the car again...
The weather was nice, dry and not too warm, the sun came out for the last few hours, I was done before 4pm, and I saw lambs and swans and ducks and ducklings and calves and lots and lots of other non-water-based birds, and at the end of it all was a lemon cake.
And the next time I do anything that's as stupid, I'll have been doing LEJOG for 10 days and will be making my way towards a bank holiday weekend with one of my very best friends, and once again a canal towpath will feature large.
Boot cost per mile: £0.79
Distance walked: 17.15 miles
Time by Naismith: don't know, didn't work it out
Actual time taken: 5h15 (average speed 3.26mph)
Yesterday's walk was not entirely fine, though. I like canal towpaths, which is good because I'll be walking along quite a few miles of them over the summer, because they are flat and often well-maintained and often cycle routes and because I essentially really like ducks and swans and moorhens and coots, even if I can never remember how to tell the difference between the latter two. So I was quite happy striding off along this flat, smooth, well-maintained slightly gravelly path between the old canal and the river Severn. But the soles of my feet started to ache around mile four, and by eleven-and-a-half miles I would have really, really liked to stop walking - it is possible that walking over 50 miles in three days is a little excessive. However I kept going, hitting 55 miles in three days in total. The last three miles were made a bit easier by the fact that I knew I was being picked up in the car to go for tea and cake with my Mum, so I marched through the last bit. The big problem came when I had to get out of the car again...
The weather was nice, dry and not too warm, the sun came out for the last few hours, I was done before 4pm, and I saw lambs and swans and ducks and ducklings and calves and lots and lots of other non-water-based birds, and at the end of it all was a lemon cake.
And the next time I do anything that's as stupid, I'll have been doing LEJOG for 10 days and will be making my way towards a bank holiday weekend with one of my very best friends, and once again a canal towpath will feature large.
Boot cost per mile: £0.79
Distance walked: 17.15 miles
Time by Naismith: don't know, didn't work it out
Actual time taken: 5h15 (average speed 3.26mph)
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