Our second team walk is planned for 8 March. We’ll be a man down as some lucky git will be elsewhere frolicking in the snow. We’re aiming for a few extra kilometres this time, somewhere between 15 and 20 - depending how lost we get and if we have to rescue any fake ducks.
The route [...]
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…here are some of my top tips for avoiding friction blisters, in no particular order:
Zinc oxide tape - if you know you rub in a certain place, tape it before you start. If you start to feel a bit of a rub, tape it before it turns into a blister.
Break new boots/shoes in slowly - [...]
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Music is a beautiful thing. Mix with walking and you have a powerful combo that can temporarily take away your blister pain, make an uphill slog pass in an instant or help you eek out that last drop of energy that you didn’t know you had.
Pondering this while walking home, I thought I’d share my (current) top 5 [...]
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Team walk 1 was a circular walk from Saunderton Station to, er, Saunderton Station. We started out, with varying levels of enthusiasm, at 9 am on a beautiful clear and frosty Sunday morning. We had GPS (but Nick hadn’t downloaded the map) and no OS map, just an excessively detailed guide book that somehow had the [...]
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Two and a half marathons and an ascent as high as Ben Nevis in 30 hours or less? Are we mad – quite possibly? Here’s where our Trailwalker story begins.
Once upon a time, there were four pairs of feet. Two were blissfully ignorant and two should’ve known better. The should’ve known betters seduced the blissfully [...]
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