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June 15, 2021
We are thrown a lifeline, then I suffer a blow!!! So what has a picture of the side entrance to Spire Hospital Portsmouth that heads this post got to do with the IOW Challenge Walk 2021??? you may well wonder. In part 3 I wrote about how worried I was with the coronavirus restrictions imposing […]
January 18, 2021
Coronavirus Update The state of affairs : January 2021 I had always intended this posting (Part 3) to have detailed the practical training plan that my daughter and I have been following since October last year. I can say that we did achieve our first target for the walking training which was to have completed […]
January 8, 2021
The Challenges. Why am I doing this? Why oh why on Earth am I doing this very loooooooooooong walk? Is it because I want people to think of me as some sort of Superman if I complete the challenge? Am I trying to prove something to myself?..that I can still do today what I could […]
December 21, 2020
Introduction This walk is scheduled for the weekend of May 2/3, 2021. I will be walking it with my daughter. It is one of a series of ‘Ultra – Challenge’ events that are held in a normal year in various parts of England. It is a walk of 106 km (almost 66 miles). The objective […]