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The joy of a familiar walk

A few weeks ago Graham and I were out walking and I mentioned that I favoured repeating familiar walks, while he favoured new and exciting adventures. Since then I’ve been lucky enough to do lots of new walks which I’ve greatly enjoyed, but I still love familiar walks.  On Monday...

There’s something special about exercise

As I crested the first peak on my laboured ascent of Cat Bells I noticed two red specks in the distance approaching the scramble to the peak.  I continued upwards at q pretty good pace (pain free today) and they didn’t seem to be moving very fast.  Eventually at the...