By way of Little Britain

Lots to hear today. "Hello? I got your number on Google?" she said with confidence as crossed the road oblivious to the bicycles. "When you said you wuz goin on oliday I thought you wuz goin sumwhere nice." said one hi-viz jacket lying under a tree among several others. "Nah, just Itly mate!" replied the guy with his head pillowed on an empty water bottle. "Thanks mate" said the policeman hurrying down the tow-path on his bicycle.

It was a beautiful day on which to walk beside the Frays River through Frays Park and on to Fassnidge Park and then all the way down to Packet Boat Marina. Across on the Slough Spur of the Grand Union Canal and back up along the London Loop through Little Britain and beside the River Colne.

Just over 10 km and then up 5 stories in 32 seconds. OK, I admit that was a bit extreme but I'm beginning to enjoy the odd celebration my new found fitness.

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Little Britain

Over 10 km down the Grand Union Canal to the Packet Boat Marina, Little Britain and back. Just Bashful and I went out today. Lots of talk about maps, blogs, tax, pensions, walking, shin splits and sunburn among others. Fundraising was still on my mind having spent 30 minutes bullying people into buying raffle tickets to (perhaps not) fly with BA to Europe business class for two.

The areas we passed through ranged from canal quaint to urban blight, from used car storage to canal barge marinas, pretty bricked walls to razor wired metal pickets and duckling lakes to festering pools. The pools had car parts sticking up from the monimolimniotic ooze (some word that!).

Some 700 calories were burned walking at the fastest pace in the training so far. The trusty WalkMeter reports that we walked fast enough to cover the 100 km in less than 16 hours.

THANK YOU DARLENE!