Handbag walking suddenly got more ambitious
V announces ‘She’s got a face on!
And I have, for V has said that we’re going to do the Dales Way! ‘It’s 82 miles’ I squeak, the pitch heading for the place where I can only be heard by dogs.
In the last mind mapping session* we said that we would work towards a longer walk, something more ambitious, which we’d do over a few days. In my head this meant about 30 miles in total, probably about 8-10 miles a day**. But this week, in the Independent, there’s an article about this walk, which goes from Ilkley to Windermere.
The plan has always been to stay in nice B&Bs along the route, and to use the company that transport your luggage between overnight stays. No rucksacks for us.
We’ve pencilled in a date to have a short trial – a two day walk, and one overnight stay. With our diaries being so busy it’s going to take a while to plan in anything longer, so at least I have a bit of respite. But still, 82 miles!!
*Yes, I know I still have to update mine
**we’re managing 5 miles pretty easily in an afternoon, and are only just getting back into ‘training’
Labels: walking
posted by Val @ 5:42 PM
3 Comments:
Can it be noted that I can't get past the fact that there's a company to carry bags for you! ;-)
It's 78 miles according to some books, that 4 miles might make all the difference.
Myself and nine others are doing the walk for charity in july of this year. i really need to start thinking about getting fit for it.
Sorry, forgot to say. You can see out preparations here
http://www.daleswalk.com
(I would offer to send you one of our sponsorship forms so you could do it for our charity, but that might be a little cheeky)
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