Lots of pics today

I have been meaning to walk the distance from Guildford to Godalming for ages and today I conquered it.

Godalming Navigation

6.3 miles / 10.1388672 km
Created 04.21.12 by training420

It was a beautiful day for it, considering it's been bucketing it down this week.  Hailstones arrived once I got home, so timed that well.
 My knees are giving me grief tonight, think it really is time for new trainers (aka sneakers, runners etc).  Though could be to do with the amount of mud I had to contend with.  Amelia was impressed to see it all up my legs when I got home - made me look hardcore!  Today's walk had me snapping pics quite a bit with all the things to see along the River Wey.

 This photo isn't zoomed in, I really was this close.  Frightening.

 St Catherine's Hill

Toying with technology

I haven't been blogging here much as I have been recording my walks on an app on my phone, mapmywalk. Have decided to ditch mapmywalk now, it sucks battery life and I can't take pictures on my walk while the app is recording.

So back to runwalkjog, which is much better.

Dapdune Wharf

3.1 miles / 4.9889664 km

Created 04.16.12 by training420

Finally got to walk along Dapdune Wharf, which is closed over Winter. It's so nice down there, must make sure we take Amelia for the egg hunt there next Easter. She would have loved to see the ducklings on the river this morning.

It's a beautiful day!

Sun shone all weekend, having too much fun in the sun to squeeze in a walk so made sure I fit in a quick one tonight. Beautiful balmy night, perfect for discovering new parts of Guildford. We have lived here for nearly 2 years and every walk I am discovering new things, areas I never even knew existed.

One thing is for sure, Guildford sure knows how to do hills!! Google Maps does not do them justice - I better have buns of steel by the end of this training.

I tried to stick to the main paths tonight as like everywhere, nice nights bring out weirdos. So I walked to all the primary schools I know in the town centre.

HT Primary Schools

2.8 miles / 4.5061632 km

Created 03.26.12 by training420

So rewarding to climb these big hills and be able to see all of Guildford. Below is a picture of dusk with Guildford Cathedral in the background.

Back on form!

Finally back to my old self and back into training. Because I have missed quite a bit I am trying to fit more cardio in during the week to get back on form. Yesterday was my longest walk so far, at nearly 7 miles.

Jacobs Well & Burpham

6.9 miles / 11.1044736 km

Created 03.17.12 by training420

The muscles behind my knees took a real beating, a nice walk around Alice Holt today sorted that out.

I love this country in March. It really does like to show off.



This walk would definitely take the cake for the stinkiest so I don't think I will do this one again. Cows and sheep really do stink. Amelia would have loved it though. The cows had long hair, which I'd never seen down South before.

Time for new trainers too.

£907.44 raised for Breast Cancer Care so far too, which is fantastic!

Sick of being sick now

No training going on and hasn't been for a while. I was really hanging out for a big walk on the weekend. A friend convinced me to call the out of hours doctors due to my symptoms. I am glad I listened to her.

Out of hours doc recommended a chest xray as he thought I might have had a cracked rib from coughing so much. Doctors at hospital suspected a clot in the lung as I was in so much pain. They all agreed there was a chest infection.

Long story short, stay in hospital required, medicated up to the eyeballs. I am eating healthily - probably not enough as my appetite has disappeared and am having to force myself to eat. Scales aren't really moving as I am not doing exercise, so that's annoying.

Still trying to do strength training, as long as it does not impact my right lung capacity.

Had organised all these fundraising activities at work, so I hope they are still going on while I am not there.

I miss training!

Soldiering on

As I said in my previous post, I have been ill. So I was busting a gut to get out and get back into training. With conjunctivitis in one eye and coughing up a lung, I wasn't hoping for much. 10 mins in the thought did cross my mind to go home, but I soldiered on.

It was a sunny winter's morning, 2 degrees so nice and crisp.

I was nearing home by the end and decided that the length of time seemed to be the same as my last walk, so for the fun of it (!) I kept going and threw some nasty hills in there for good measure. That's the great thing about Guildford, no shortage of hill training.

Merrow Downs & Pewley Hill

6.6 miles / 10.6216704 km

Created 02.19.12 by training420

Very hilly walk

As usual I took some pics along the way.

Merrow Downs - the first part of my walk

Bugs me when this happens! No way was I going to walk up there with no obvious footpaths. This is why I had to backtrack on myself twice on the map above.

The beautiful Pewley Downs. Amazes me that this is 5 mins out of the town centre of the biggest town in Surrey. It seems like proper countryside.

Little signs of Spring!

Our team has had a member pull out, but another member has replaced her. We have been busy thinking about fundraising ideas. As Easter is on the way a lot of it seems chocolate related which always helps people part with their cash!

Poorly :(

Training is very quiet as I am unwell. Main focus is on getting better and eating properly. Achieving well so far.

20 mile Pink Ribbonwalk - please donate!

Just Giving site all set up ready to go. There's a handy widget on the right hand side, please donate!

My team is walking 20 miles for Breast Cancer Care in June.

Walk Jog Run

In my last post I mentioned needing to get something to record my miles/k's. Ian has kindly recommended this fab site.

This was my route today.

Cathedral Walk

4.3 miles / 6.9201792 km

Created 02.11.12 by training420

Lots of downhill.

First Training Day

I walked 4 miles (6.5 kms) today - in this:

Oooh lovely, it says it is going to be sunny! Minus freaking 7, but sunny - gotta look at the positives. Looks like its going to be positively scorching by the end of the week.

As someone once said, there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad choice of clothing. So I was suitably attired for my first training day.

There weren't many out and about this morning, but I got to see bits of Guildford I had never seen on foot before.

The River Wey had steam coming off it, I'm sure there is some scientific explanation of that relating to the temperature etc.

This was an amazing sight, seeing the University of Surrey stag in the snow.

My distance is just a guesstimation, so I think I need to get some kind of monitor to record my distance and improve on times.

Background

I have agreed to be part of a team in the 2012 Pink Ribbonwalk to raise money for breast cancer. Our team is doing the 20 mile walk from Twickenham in Greater London. I agreed without realising how long 20 miles actually is.... 32 kms - eek!

The last time I did an organised event like this was the City to Surf in 2005, a 14km run. I managed that in 2hrs and 5 seconds. It was a bright winter's day in Sydney - we thought it was cold, that seems hysterical considering my first training day tomorrow is going to be -7.

As soon as I get the Just Giving details I will add it here.