Sausage sandwich at the start and bacon butty at the finish

on Apr 20 in Uncategorized by

Today we held a photoshoot for pictures to go along with a press release I’m putting together for the Dales Walk (go here if you don’t know what I’m talking about).

The turnout was fairly impressive. It’s pretty hard to get ten people with busy schedules all to be in the same place at the same time. But as Meatloaf once so wisely said, seven out of ten ain’t bad.

So here we are then, working from left to right: Craig, me, Rich Basinder, Gav, Dave, Sandip, and Mushy.

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After we’d done taking photos we all trudged off on a training walk. All except Mushy and Rich that is who both had come up with feeble excuses as to why they couldn’t come (work and parents 25th wedding anniversary my arse).

The walk was supposed to be eight miles, but ended up being nine and a half due to Craig neglecting to look at a map before we set off. I had originally harbored vague ideas about turning round and setting back off again once we reached the end; thereby matching the 16 miles we have to walk on the first three days of our expedition. These lofty ambitions were pretty much cast aside during my eighth mile however, and had been thoroughly trampled into the dirt by the end of the ninth.

Still, we were going at a fair old pace; resting only for Sandip to move downwind so he could fart. When it comes to the walk itself we’ll be taking things a bit more easily with regular rest breaks, so we all went away feeling pretty optimistic about the adventure ahead.

But most importantly we all had a great time. And we agreed to a man that we need to get in some more communal hiking before the Dales Walk itself. How does Sunday 11th of May for another eight miler (but with a few more hills) sound?

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