On your walk today..

[NorthernDave]

We have a dog and used to enjoy long walks - parts of the routes I do on mid week evenings on the hybrid now, much longer on a weekend up in the dales (the Washburn Valley was a favourite), but he's a teenager now and unfortunately he's happy with a pootle round the block now. Even the mile or so to the Co-op and back for a paper is enough to have him sleeping for the rest of the day...
I try and walk at least a mile every day in my lunch break, usually around Halifax town centre, or wider afield if I have chance. Gives me the chance to look up and enjoy the Victorian and Edwardian architecture. They don't make 'em like that any more...

 

[Diggs]

OK OK so it wasn't strictly today but I've been on holiday*, this from a walk to a secluded bay from our hotel in Ibiza.

*Plus - wish me luck, first ride tomorrow in over a fortnight, post two weeks of all-inclusive eating and drinking.

 

[Katherine]

OK OK so it wasn't strictly today but I've been on holiday*, this from a walk to a secluded bay from our hotel in Ibiza.

*Plus - wish me luck, first ride tomorrow in over a fortnight, post two weeks of all-inclusive eating and drinking.
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That will be me next week after a fortnight of indulgence, not all walked off on my daily beach walks.

I'm sure you'll enjoy your ride.

 

[Katherine]

Well it was only a matter of time!
For all the walks you do : between rides, for leisure, for rehab, for exercise, for fitness, with friends and family, on your own, for pleasure, for business or whatever other reason you're off the bike and you want to share.

So, on my walk today, I :
strode along the beach at Marazion with an incoming tide,
collected too many stones that caught my eye that I just had to pick up,
was awed by the speed and jumps of the kite surfers,
savoured the foaming, rolling, crashing waves as they rose up the beach,
watched lots of birds feeding at the water's edge,
got rained and blown on,
felt glad to be alive, I wouldn't want to be on holiday anywhere else!


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What about you?

I can't believe I missed off dog walking on the list, it's the most obvious one!

 

[gavgav]

I double summited in The Rhinogs yesterday. Y Llethr and Diffws, with some ridge walking for good measure. Great fun, but my legs and feet are killing today! Surprising how many different muscles are used when walking, compared to cycling.

 

[summerdays]

A group of us finished the Cotswolds Way at the weekend (just 10 miles this leg), but my legs are still complaining!

 

[Gravity Aided]

About 1/2 to 3/4 mile walks every day, as I walk to the end of our block and back about 4 times per day, 3 times on workdays. Max and Heidi need to keep up on the local dog news. Now that the weather is getting to be more suitable, we may have some longer distance trips as well.

 

[Dave7]

4 miles around the golf course. It would have been 3 1/2 if I had hit some straight shots .
It was quite cold at 09.00 but nice and warm by 11.30.

 

[Piemaster]

I had a walk down the river Esk a couple of weeks ago.

 

[numbnuts]

On my walk yesterday I found a dead deer reported it to the council, well it gives them something to do

 

[tyred]

Sliabh Liag today. Supposedly the highest sea cliffs in Europe and walking along a ledge 1,900 odd feet above the sea isn't nice when you have a bad head for heights...

 

[numbnuts]

On my walk today I found some chestnuts, looks like I'll be stuffing something next week

 

[swee'pea99]

The beach in front of the Riu Garopa is fabulous, warm Atlantic waves crashing in, albeit safely, a lot of fun. A walk for 5 minutes takes you to a huge sand dune, maybe 30 or 40ft high, over that then we found ourselves on a near deserted beach, turquoise waters, white surf, and 1/4 mile or so of wide wide beach with 2, yes 2 couples on it and we were one of them. 3 hours in the 30 degree sun that by the way never leaves you sweating here, playing in the sea, soaking up the rays. A further walk along over volcanic black rocks rounded by probably millions of years, a jet black crab scurried around, a dead fish with a parrot like beak in the sand, quite a few birds like turnstones scurrying to and fro at the edge of the surf , a sea bird spooked up by us, two locals who have a makeshift shelter made of those black rocks fishing...over another 1/2 mile to another...deserted beach.
Then 4 people had the temerity to join us on OUR beach (google riu garopa beach, the first photo does it justice)
People just dont want to explore, walk circa 1 mile and you find fabulous beaches with hardly a soul on them.On the way back, two raptor type birds lazily circling over the dunes that slowly become that barren Mars like landscape that Sal island is for the most part, a real mix of endless yellow sand, turquoise seas, white surf...and as the locals say...nooo stress
Yesterday....a one and a half hour walk the other way to Santa Maria along the beach with the same kind of views, an hour meander round town then a half hour walk back by road.
Gotta walk off some of that excess food and beer

Peterborough sounds a lot nicer than I'd imagined.

 

[stearman65]

Southport Botanic Gardens was carpeted with autumn leaves today, with youngsters scrabbling around for the chestnuts left behind by other foragers. The animals in the mini zoo had that air of approaching winter. Had my usual rum & raisin at the cafe. Summers memories fading.

 

[tyred]

Day 2- a loop from Glencolumbkille to Port along the coastal path and back via the road. Think it's in excess of 30KM. A bit wet at times.

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