A Change Of Direction

I was chatting with a friend of mine yesterday and she said she was going out for a route march as it's something she has gotten into, so I did some thinking last night and came up with a decision, apart from people with obvious (and I'm not trying to take the piss) disabilities, what easier exercise is there than walking.

So last night I went on the Walk, Jog, Run, website and looked at some routes that others had set up for my area, I found around 20 different walks for my area and some even looked straight forward, however seeing as I'm going to be starting out from scratch I sat down and worked out a basic route which takes me on a 2.26 mile more or less square circuit, with a slight dent leaning to the left before I'm back on track again.

This morning I was up bright and early with my boy, looked out the window and thought "it looks cold out there" However, unperturbed (god only knows how unperturbed popped into my head) I threw on some warm clothes, and a bobble hat (I am bald after all)  and bravely I headed out, said brrrrr and headed back in again.

No, seriously, I stepped outside into the lovely bracing air and I was off and running, well technically, walking really as I'm not that fit.

So I set off at a gait that is my usual walking pace, up to the top of the hill, turn right and I keep on going straight until I turn another corner, and then another corner and a few more thrown in for good measure, and the finally I turned that last corner and I can see my house from the bottom of the hill I started on.

Hooray, I made it back in one piece.

My first brisk walk into oblivion, sorry I mean healthiness took me 32 minutes door to door, at an average speed of 4.2 MPH and a walking pace of a 14 minute mile.

I'm going to stick to this route for the next two weeks to see if I can improve on my pace, after that I've set up a new route of 3.7 miles, after that, I'm going to work out different routes that will take me on longer and longer walks which should hopefully see me walking a 10 mile route.