Category: Races and challenges
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Letchworth’s Greenway Challenge: The race is run
Well. We did it. A little over two weeks ago now, but it’s taken that long to sink in fully. We’ve now competed in a half-marathon and haven’t been put off running for life by so doing.
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The big walk
I only found out very recently that it’s considered perfectly normal to walk (as opposed to running) a marathon distance, something that a sizeable group of people do quite regularly, taking part in a plethora of events around Britain that welcome walking entrants.
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Therfield Heath: Looking at a golf course in a different light
Sunday morning, and we’re feeling like we could really do with a lie-in, having run 10 miles the previous day. Unfortunately, we know that to have one would mean missing out on an event that we’re quite keen to go to – a guided walk organised by Hertfordshire’s Countryside Management Service around Therfield Heath, near…
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The Chiltern Hundred
This is the story of a challenge that is quite different from, say, walking the South West Coast Path or some other long-distance trail. Nevertheless, it needs planning, persistence and ingenuity as well as the ability to complete a walk of around 26 miles, although that can be sub-divided into three shorter sections if you…