Ewe Looking At Me
On Saturday, I decided to make the most of the snow and did an 18 mile Recce walk from Home to Salisbury. The is the Tyre-Pull Walk scheduled for Late January / early February and will probably start in Andover town centre and finish in Salisbury City Centre.
The purpose of the recce walk, was to have a look at the proposed route and get some idea on timings. The route can be seen here . This is not quite complete, as I had to turn my phone off because it was running out of battery!
Neil, who takes Nordic walking on Salisbury Plain at the weekends, put the route together, and gave me the grid references. I eventually managed to put these into my GPS, including finding the deliberate mistake! That in itself was a worthwhile exercise!
On the whole I had a successful walk, only taking one wrong turn, in Porton. I realised my mistake, and got myself back on track quite quickly. So I achieved at least three objectives with this walk. 1) I now know how to enter data into the GPS for a planned route. 2) I can use this data, with a map to navigate myself along said planned route (VERY important as I am responsible for Navigation in the Arctic!) 3) It’s a long way to pull a Tyre!
- Salisbury Cathedral
The sun never got out all day, so the light was particularly poor by the time I reached Salisbury. It was also very damp, in the air, and underfoot. So, John picked me up at Salisbury Rugby Club, a couple of miles from the City Centre. I think Neil and I need to look at the route, to see if it is possible to come in on the East side of the City, perhaps picking up the Clarendon Way.
I have rearranged my working hours slightly, and I am now managing to get two decent length walks in during the week. I also try to keep Wednesdays as ‘Walk to Work Wednesday!’ This allows me a) a fast walk (no dog!), b) to save money on petrol and c) to do a small bit towards saving the planet. The plan is to get one really long walk in at the w/e (over 10 miles!).
With the recent weather I have managed to get some great photos, particularly of Jack Frost at work.
You can see more photos on my Daily Blipfoto Journal.
Tommy also got me training outside last week. He had me interval training, pulling 18Kg Kettle Bells … I could feel that in my thighs for a few days!
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