The Walking Blog
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Fear of heights on Lundy Island
How to visit Lundy and have a holiday that is physically and mentally refreshing, rather than draining, and allows for a level of challenge and adventure pitched to avoid both boredom and terror?
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Tips for choosing a challenge event.
Choosing the right event can make all the difference between a great day and a frustating slog that doesn’t achieve your goals. So what should you look for?
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Our year’s foraging
It’s been a great year for foraging but, as always, it’s the stuff you don’t manage to do that sticks in the mind.
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Barefoot hiking
How effective is a spot of barefoot hiking in toughening up the feet and preventing injuries in advance of a big event? Possibly more than you could ever imagine…
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Spring foraging: Elderflowerade
With spring bursting out all over it’s a fine time to be picking up the foraging again with a big simmering pan full of elderflowerade.
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Orienteering
The nice thing about being in the recovery period after a race is you can be an awful lot freer about what exercise you take. In this case it was a run around a fixed orienteering course in Stevenage.
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Letchworth’s Greenway Challenge: The race is run
Well. We did it. A little over two weeks ago now, but it’s taken that long to sink in fully. We’ve now competed in a half-marathon and haven’t been put off running for life by so doing.
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The big walk
I only found out very recently that it’s considered perfectly normal to walk (as opposed to running) a marathon distance, something that a sizeable group of people do quite regularly, taking part in a plethora of events around Britain that welcome walking entrants.
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Therfield Heath: Looking at a golf course in a different light
Sunday morning, and we’re feeling like we could really do with a lie-in, having run 10 miles the previous day. Unfortunately, we know that to have one would mean missing out on an event that we’re quite keen to go to – a guided walk organised by Hertfordshire’s Countryside Management Service around Therfield Heath, near…
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100 Days Challenge – completed!
We did it. 100 continuous days of intentional movement, of at least 30 minutes every day, starting on January 1 and finishing on April 10.
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Celebrate Our Forests Day in Hitch Wood, north Hertfordshire
Yesterday was Celebrate Our Forests Day – part of a national campaign to preserve the UK’s forest estate in public ownership. We thought we’d join in with a visit to one of our nicest local woods, Hitch Wood. The idea of the day was to get people out and about in their local forest or…
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Why do we run?
Here’s a great talk on the topic of running. Running is a big subject here at the moment since we’re currently three months off attempting the inaugural half-marathon in the town next to ours.