Think I must be mad by lesleychev

 I have just completed my first organised walk 30km in just over 7 hours.

Although not blogging I've still been plodding along with my training.

The last two weekends have been busy volunteering with two local Race for Life's.  All good training as your on you feet for 8 hours a time and it involved 3 days of races.

I can't believe how much I've come on in the past few weeks.  Not long ago 6 miles would have been a long walk and on Monday I left the house saying I was going to stretch my legs then went to the canal turned left and not right and walked almost 6 miles and still felt good when I got home.

Tuesday is my speed night when I walk before slimming world weigh in. Managed 3 miles in 48 minutes thats 15.32 min/mile wow!!!

Thursday was a shortish 4.5 miles with a friend whose not long started walking.

Saturday was spent hunting for a hydration pack for back pack and some other bits and pieces in town that I've been putting off for ages.

So this morning. I was up at 6.30am left the house at 7.30 and think I left the start tent at 8.10am although the organiser then kept me chatting for another 15 minutes in the first field. Had a choice of 10k, 20k, 30k or 40k.  Had been umming and aahing over whether to do the 20 or 30k routes but with the weather men promising a cooler day opted for the 30k.

To start with it was slow going.  I'm not great at walking and reading instructions at the same time not helped by the fact that I need my glasses to walk but not to read   After about 30 minutes of seeing no-one two gents caught me up.  I was stood in the middle of a field of cows at the time trying to locate the correct gate out!! (I hate cows they really freak me out) Anyway luckily both gents had done the walk before so they took me under their wing and two of us stuck together for the rest of the route. The other Gent had chosed the shorter 20k walk but we did see him again along the way.  It was a very pleasant walk about 50/50 lanes and fields and tracks. Some of the fields had huge cracks in where its been so dry and in other places the tarmac was meltin on the road.  Not many pics taken as phone ran out of memory but will try and add the few I got.  Quite a few ups, some a bit tougher than others with the obvious downs which really tested the old knees.

All in all a very pleasant (HOT) day and something I plan to attempt again next year hopefully it will be the 40k though

Now i'm just trying to keep my legs moving and refuel my body.

Happy running, walking or resting.