So far our training walks have never been further than 13 miles, but yesterday we pushed it a bit and went for 20 miles (32km) - almost one-third of the trailwalker distance.
The last few miles were hard, I think we all had blisters of some sort (damn you “1000 mile socks”!). The thought of […]

Got a few blisters on last weeks walk, mainly due to poor choice of socks. For tomorrow’s 18 mile training walk I am prepared, having discovered the wonder of 1000-Mile Socks! These babies have an inner sock which moves with your foot and a thicker outer which moves with your shoes. The result is blister […]

I am out walking solo today, 11 miles around baldock. It is also the first test of my software to blog live en route!

Now that I have this team blog looking good I’ve started to point people at it. If you’re new to blogs and want to keep track of what we’re doing, I recommend using Google Reader to track this and any other blogs you’re interested in. To subscribe to updates from this blog, try this link
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Today we completed about 21km around the Ridgeway and Ashridge as a complete team for the first time. This was also the first training walk to feature some hills too. To add to the realism, we had a 10km checkpoint marked off to see what our speed was like over hilly terrain. The result? 2hrs […]