But nothing comes close to walking along the cycle path that we have traversed many times, passing familiar faces, with a set of walking poles. Alan and I thought we really needed to try the poles out before the day but couldn't bring ourselves to walk round Dunfermline with them. The cycle path seemed like a good idea, but the pair of us just looked like choppers - and uncoordinated choppers at that. A few jokey remarks, but mainly just a lot of very straight faces trying not to laugh.
During various stages of our two mile ordeal (we walked the rest of the 7 1/2 miles without them), we proclaimed that we had 'Found our Rhythm' but I looked it up in the dictionary later and can confirm that neither of us actually had. Ministry of Silly Walks, yes, Rhythm, no.
Having a handy utility belt on his bag, Alan offered to carry the poles home. Or as he is now called - Quick Draw McGraw.....
After something to eat, we decided to go out again, doing our agreed 10 mile walk round the outskirts of our fair town. The walk stimulates a diverse range of discussion topics which help take your mind off the walk.
- Will that woman be knitting in her front room watching the telly? (she wasn't this week!)
- Did you hear the one about the snake draped across the ford fiesta bonnet.
- Plans to finally open the mothballed Hyundai plant and achieve world domination involving the sale of carpets.
- Rumours of the new garden centre selling pints of lager!
Anyway, we completed the 10.3 miles in about 2 hrs 25mins, and we did the 9.5 miles in 2hrs 15mins. Pretty good going (especially considering I had a Chicken Bhuna, rice and nan bread in between!). But as noted in a previous post, my feet were aching by the time I got home. Fair play to the 1000 mile socks though, not one blister.
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