walk from Lincoln to Woodhall Spa
Beautiful day today. Tom and I set off from the house at about 9:10. It was a walk from Lincoln to Woodhall Spa. It started off cool but actually warmed up as we went along. I had taken a full camelback of water and it just about lasted the trip to Woodhall Spa.
Most of the walk was along the cycle path next to the River Witham. No Hills but today was all about it endurance and been able to walk the 18 miles. We stop for a break at approximately every hour And had lunch on a picnic bench at Bardney lock.
I took a few photographs but there were lots that I hadn’t been able to react quickly enough to And the phone probably wouldn’t have done a good job of recording them anyway. I’m thinking a heron landing, a couple of swans flying past. That sort of thing. Lots of swans along the way on the Water.
We finally made it to the Mall pub at approximately 4 o’clock. We had rung Anne and told her that we would be about an hour earlier than planned. I had built in some contingency to the time. And arrived at 4.30, Just in time for me to finish off a pint of Timothy Taylor’s landlord.
I did have a little problem with the RunKeeper software on the way. I accidentally stopped it once and then had to reset The phone because it was locked up I lost some of the data. This meant I don’t have a contiguous map and record for the whole day’s walk but it doesn’t matter, it’s not that important at this stage of the game. What does mean is that I have to think about how I can accurately record the coast to coast walk without having to faff around with a phone and losing data. The three separately recorded walks have fed into MyFitnessPal and recorded the fact that I burnt off 3000 calories today which is a good result.
At 18 miles today’s walk is still short of the longest day on the coast to coast but it is good progress. We just have to be able to string 12 of them together on consecutive days. It will be next Sunday before I can do another long walk due to work commitments this coming week plus picking Joe up from Newcastle University. The following weekend however we will be in Llanberis for a few days which should be a good opportunity for training, especially up the mountains.
We’re home now I’ve had a bath and a beef stew and am recovering on the settee in the TV room. Aches and pains but actually not as bad as I was on Thursday after my 12 mile walk. My biggest concern now Is my left foot. The toe next to my little toe is rubbing and getting blisters. the clearly is not quite enough room down there. The real nuisance is that there is plenty of room for my big toe which is the biggest in there and the one you would think that would be the limiting factor for whether a shoe fits or not but reality is the problem is that smaller toe.
I’m going to see what GoOutdoors people may have to say – recommendations re stretching the boot for example. Timpson at Tesco may be able to help but I suspect I may have to buy a second pair of boots another size up to accommodate the foot. Expensive but there may not be another way around it.
Stay tuned…
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