Been a big week again for walking. On Monday we did 6 miles and on Thursday, Clare and I did 12 miles. The same route as last time, from my house to Castle Lane Tesco and back.
Was a lot warmer this time. We did it in 3 hours and 20 minutes, so knocked 5 minutes of the total time taken which is always a big yay. My legs still ached at the end of it, but I think we have acknowledged that if you walk 12 miles, it is going to hurt at the end of it lol
The train tickets arrived on Tuesday, so thats it, no backing out now, not that I would of course.
Then today I did just under four miles by myself. To be exact, 3.73 miles in a time of 1hr 5 mins and 5 seconds, so just under 22 miles in total.
This week we are upping the distance. Tomorrow we go for 14 miles!!!! Omg that sounds a bit scary, but then it did when we went to 12!. We will have walked over half the total distance when we complete tomorrow, so that is a moral booster in itself!
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
29 Miles Walked since Saturday 4th February.
God I am surprised my legs aren't yelling out in protest!
Saturday I did four miles
Sunday Clare and I did 7 miles
Monday Clare and I did 6 miles
and today we did.......
12 miles!!!!!
We walked to Bournemouth Tesco on Castle Lane and back in 3 hours 25 mins which I am really chuffed about.
We had one really bad mile at about 6 miles which was a twenty minute mile, but that was a run of one pedestrian crossing after another, but otherwise averaged 16 ish minute miles.
It was a lovely route and nice and flat so no horrible hills, but it was sooo cold. I think it was the equivilent of -5 out there today. My legs were so cold they were hurting without aching. The last mile was really painful, but better than I thought it would be
The thing that surprised me the most is the fact that I do not ache at all! I remember doing the small 5/6 mile walks at the start of this and being in agony at the end of it. I did have a really hot shower, but have no aches or pains at all now. I probably feel fitter than I have done in my life!
The huge milestone is though we are one mile of completing a half marathon, massive achievement!
We are allowing ourselves a week off next week as it is half term then doing another 12 before going for 14 eeekkkkk!
Saturday I did four miles
Sunday Clare and I did 7 miles
Monday Clare and I did 6 miles
and today we did.......
12 miles!!!!!
We walked to Bournemouth Tesco on Castle Lane and back in 3 hours 25 mins which I am really chuffed about.
We had one really bad mile at about 6 miles which was a twenty minute mile, but that was a run of one pedestrian crossing after another, but otherwise averaged 16 ish minute miles.
It was a lovely route and nice and flat so no horrible hills, but it was sooo cold. I think it was the equivilent of -5 out there today. My legs were so cold they were hurting without aching. The last mile was really painful, but better than I thought it would be
The thing that surprised me the most is the fact that I do not ache at all! I remember doing the small 5/6 mile walks at the start of this and being in agony at the end of it. I did have a really hot shower, but have no aches or pains at all now. I probably feel fitter than I have done in my life!
The huge milestone is though we are one mile of completing a half marathon, massive achievement!
We are allowing ourselves a week off next week as it is half term then doing another 12 before going for 14 eeekkkkk!
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Another 10 miles done!
We did another 10 miles on Wednesday 1st February! We did it in 2hrs 40 mins, knocking about a minute off of each mile!!!!
Did a gorgeous walk to Sandbanks Peninsula and back. The sun was out and although there was a slight chill in the air, it was beautiful.
It definitely felt easier this time. Maybe because there were not so many hilly sections, but more manageable. 10 miles was always my mental wall, so I am so happy to have got passed there.
We are walking 8 tomorrow (maybe with a stop for a cuppa), 5 on Monday and then Wednesday we are going for 12!!!!
We have worked out that 12 miles is to Castle Lane Tesco and back so should be nice and flat! Think those extra 2 miles are going to be bit of a challenge.
Apparently some people have said to not get so fixated on getting to 20 miles before the walk, but I think the nearer we can get to full distance the better!
Did a gorgeous walk to Sandbanks Peninsula and back. The sun was out and although there was a slight chill in the air, it was beautiful.
It definitely felt easier this time. Maybe because there were not so many hilly sections, but more manageable. 10 miles was always my mental wall, so I am so happy to have got passed there.
We are walking 8 tomorrow (maybe with a stop for a cuppa), 5 on Monday and then Wednesday we are going for 12!!!!
We have worked out that 12 miles is to Castle Lane Tesco and back so should be nice and flat! Think those extra 2 miles are going to be bit of a challenge.
Apparently some people have said to not get so fixated on getting to 20 miles before the walk, but I think the nearer we can get to full distance the better!
Friday, 27 January 2012
Yay We did 10 Miles!!
I am a couple of days late updating this, but we made the 10 miles!! OMG I am so proud of us.
We did it in 2 hrs 45 mins with an average of 17 ish minute miles which I think is really good.
The weather was a bit iffy. It had been raining first thing and there was a bit of heavy drizzle a couple of times, but it was nice and cool which helped a lot.
We walked from Claire house to Ashley Cross, then from there to Whitecliff, all the way along Baiter to the end of Poole Quay, then turned round and came home.
Coming back was great until 8 miles and I will confess the last couple of miles were hard due to a couple of uphill sections! 8 miles and then hills yaaayyyyy...not.
Surprisingly enough though, I don't feel like I walked 10 miles, or 15 miles over two days. I feel remarkably refreshed and non achy. Maybe my endurance levels are getting up or maybe I am a bit fitter than I gave myself credit for?
Anyway, we have 10 weeks to get to 20 miles and all I can say is bring it on! I feel really positive at the moment and really believe that we can do this!
We did it in 2 hrs 45 mins with an average of 17 ish minute miles which I think is really good.
The weather was a bit iffy. It had been raining first thing and there was a bit of heavy drizzle a couple of times, but it was nice and cool which helped a lot.
We walked from Claire house to Ashley Cross, then from there to Whitecliff, all the way along Baiter to the end of Poole Quay, then turned round and came home.
Coming back was great until 8 miles and I will confess the last couple of miles were hard due to a couple of uphill sections! 8 miles and then hills yaaayyyyy...not.
Surprisingly enough though, I don't feel like I walked 10 miles, or 15 miles over two days. I feel remarkably refreshed and non achy. Maybe my endurance levels are getting up or maybe I am a bit fitter than I gave myself credit for?
Anyway, we have 10 weeks to get to 20 miles and all I can say is bring it on! I feel really positive at the moment and really believe that we can do this!
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Two small Walks done, the big ones tomorrow!
Didn't see any point as putting these as two tiny posts so you can have one big one!
Did 5 miles on Friday 20th January and another 5 miles this morning. Was a bit trickier this morning as its the first one done in the rain really, although it did dry off towards the end.
5 miles is so easy, but it only takes an hour and a bit so don't need a huge gap in the day to do it.
Tomorrow is the big one though. 10 miles and its a mare of a route that is planned. Not so much focusing on time tomorrow, just doing the 10 miles. I have to say I am a bit nervous EEEKKKK!!
I have just worked out thought that we have covered 87.5 miles so far in training!! Thats massive lol
Did 5 miles on Friday 20th January and another 5 miles this morning. Was a bit trickier this morning as its the first one done in the rain really, although it did dry off towards the end.
5 miles is so easy, but it only takes an hour and a bit so don't need a huge gap in the day to do it.
Tomorrow is the big one though. 10 miles and its a mare of a route that is planned. Not so much focusing on time tomorrow, just doing the 10 miles. I have to say I am a bit nervous EEEKKKK!!
I have just worked out thought that we have covered 87.5 miles so far in training!! Thats massive lol
Monday, 16 January 2012
Two Walks In A Row And Theme Planned
Well I have done two walks in two days. Yesterday by myself I did four miles in 1 1/4 hours. Today we did 8 miles in two hours 15 mins. We didn't do the 10 miles planned as Clare had to get the gas men out. Hopefully we are going for the 10 miles next week, but planning to have a shorter route option in case it hurts too much lol.
I'm not worried though as we worked out that including the 5 mile plan we are doing on Wednesday, we will have done about 20 miles over the week which is pretty good going!
We have now also finalised our theme. The theme for the walk is "Rocking around the world" so we are going for the 50's Rockabilly look with a cherry red and black colour scheme.
We have on order from Ebay black neck scarves with red cherry's on. We are going to order some red tulle from Hong Kong to make the tutus out of and overlay them with cherry print fabric and then buying a pair of red and a pair of black leg warmers and each having one of each colour!! It's going to be soooo cool.
I am so excited now. It feels like it is all slowly coming together!
I'm not worried though as we worked out that including the 5 mile plan we are doing on Wednesday, we will have done about 20 miles over the week which is pretty good going!
We have now also finalised our theme. The theme for the walk is "Rocking around the world" so we are going for the 50's Rockabilly look with a cherry red and black colour scheme.
We have on order from Ebay black neck scarves with red cherry's on. We are going to order some red tulle from Hong Kong to make the tutus out of and overlay them with cherry print fabric and then buying a pair of red and a pair of black leg warmers and each having one of each colour!! It's going to be soooo cool.
I am so excited now. It feels like it is all slowly coming together!
Friday, 13 January 2012
Walk Number 9 and others planned
Distance 5 miles- Time..not so much worrying about this
Had a lovely 5 mile walk today. We had planned 10, but due to injury on Clare's part, decided to do two shorter walks. We therefore did 5 miles today and are doing the other 5 miles on Sunday.
We did it in about 1hr 20, but after reading advice on the Moonwalk blog about not getting obsessive about times, are not so much focusing on miles per minutes now.
It was a gorgeous day for it. Nice and sunny even though it started off fresh. 5 miles is very easy now though, still hate hills lol.
So are doing 5 miles on Sunday, then are going for 10 miles on Monday and another 5 the following Wednesday. Over the four sessions we will have done 20 miles!! Just need to merge them altogether now hehe.
Starting to find all the little hints and tips to get us through this, won't be long before we need to start planning stuff to take!!!
Had a lovely 5 mile walk today. We had planned 10, but due to injury on Clare's part, decided to do two shorter walks. We therefore did 5 miles today and are doing the other 5 miles on Sunday.
We did it in about 1hr 20, but after reading advice on the Moonwalk blog about not getting obsessive about times, are not so much focusing on miles per minutes now.
It was a gorgeous day for it. Nice and sunny even though it started off fresh. 5 miles is very easy now though, still hate hills lol.
So are doing 5 miles on Sunday, then are going for 10 miles on Monday and another 5 the following Wednesday. Over the four sessions we will have done 20 miles!! Just need to merge them altogether now hehe.
Starting to find all the little hints and tips to get us through this, won't be long before we need to start planning stuff to take!!!
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