Jenny drove us to her sister Brenda's house for a training walk on Friday. Two of the biggest dogs I have ever seen welcomed us (Newfoundlands), Brenda supplied a welcome cup of coffee and soon we were off. A short walk from her house to the country park which offered well laid out paths for the most part and well worn tracks for the rest.
There are a number of wildlife areas, woods and Ingrebourne River with the promise of bluebells in May, trees just coming to life after the long cold winter months and birds singing. A perfect gem on the edge of Essex and London.
There were a number of people out walking their dogs and for the most part the sun came along too!
We spent most of the walk discussing walking and walking gear (well what else), and what we might expect on the Hadrian's Wall walk. Unfortunately there are no hills.... well perhaps a small hillock or two, however, we were out and walking and that can't be bad.
We had switched the gps on at the beginning of the walk to establish how far we will have walked at the end of the day, and to our surprise we had notched up just under 9 miles, although we did leave the country park and did a loop out round by the hospital to extend it as much as we could.
After a refreshing cup of tea at Brenda's and a quick kiss from the two big hounds (whether you wanted it or not), Jenny and I made haste to Lakeside and a visit to Decathlon the sports store. We shouldn't have done that, there were loads of things that we couldn't live without!
A slow drive back up to Suffolk, as we managed to join the Friday night rush hour.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment