It’s only twelve days now until our walk and my hopes of becoming super fit and loosing four stone in weight are fast diminishing. I could still do it though, all I need to do is start a gruelling exercise regime and go on a crash diet.
I’ll start Monday.
I’m planning on another big [...] Read more »
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A trip to the Dales
Hats what I’m talking about
There are now twenty seven days left until we set off on our walk. Twenty seven days. That’s about 648 hours, or 38,880 minutes. Hey, that doesn’t sound quite so close now. Maybe breaking it down even further will make me feel better.
2,332,800 seconds.
23,328,000,000,000,000,000 nanoseconds.
OK, maybe that’s taking things too far.
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Planning logistics
Oli, Dave, Kerry and I had a planning meeting for the Dales Walk last weekend. If you’re really interested you can see what we discussed here, but it’s rather dull.
Oli sent me some photos that he had taken during the meeting, and his captions amused me somewhat so I thought I’d share.
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“I’m a very sweaty man”
Have you ever disclosed that you once got sacked for sweating too much live on air? I have.
Yesterday Neil and I went on BBC Radio Leeds in order to promote The Joseph Salmon Trust and the sponsored walk I am doing in aid of it. I’m aware that going on local radio for [...]
Is it me, or is that a 16 mile long hill?
Cobbling together various bits of information I’ve found from around the net I’ve put together a graphical representation of the 78 mile walk I’ll be doing for charity in July:
That second day looks a little unpleasant.
Donations are starting to come in from various places. Last weekend Sandip and I went around Huddersfield asking various [...] Read more »
And all without a sherpa
Despite putting in a fair bit of training for the Dales Walk my natural laziness has meant I’ve avoided hiking up too many hills. Kerry and the kids absence is a perfect opportunity to get a bit of walking done, and so yesterday I decided it was time for me to tackle a few [...] Read more »
Three men contemplate a dying fish
We walked thirteen miles today up and down the canal from Huddersfield to Marsden and back again. Thirteen miles! And it was extremely hot – around 23°C (that’s 74°F for people who can’t understand proper temperatures yet). I was sweating so much I would have been drier if it had been raining.
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Fame at last
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner printed a story about our walk yesterday. They even published the photo (although they had to crop round my head as it was too big for the page).
It was interesting to see what they used out of the press release I wrote and what they didn’t. They missed [...] Read more »
Guest Post Thursday: Me
I’m not here today, I’m guest posting over at Rattling the Kettle where I am rattling my charity tin.
On the subject of the charity, I found this video entitled The Dales Walk in 60 seconds the other day. If only it were that easy.
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These boots are made for walking
Today I got a new pair of walking boots. Here’s a picture of them:
OK, maybe not; but they might as well be. You see, my new boots are blue.
When I posted the photo of the Dales Walk team last week Phil commented that he thought that we all looked a little drab. [...] Read more »
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