I will soon set out again on the Big Walk which this time takes me from Northwich in Cheshire to Windermere in the Lake District, a journey of 95 miles. With this in mind I have started my long distance training again and yesterday did a very hilly circular walk of 21 miles from Seaton via Sidmouth, to Southleigh and back to Seaton. The weather started of sunny but very windy and the threat of showers was never far away. As I reached Branscombe the first of the heavy showers started and I quickly slipped on my waterproof jacket. Soon it was all over and the warm moist smell of water vapour drifted up from the road as the sun broke through the cloud. I stopped for some lunch at the half way point in the Blue Ball inn. The steep climb out of Harcombe into the woods really tested out my fitness and I stopped at the top to look at the beauty of the woodland and get my breath back
. On the miles of loney lanes back to Southleigh a group of about 40 pheasants ran ahead of me in the road not having the confidence to flit over the hedge. I eventually lost them after half a mile as a gateway into a field gave them a opportunity to escape.
Returning via Holyford wood I had to climb over a wind blown tree before leaving the wood. At the edge of the wood I saw a young fox who looked at me before disappearing into the bracken.
Today my legs are a bit stiff after the 21 hilly miles but not tomorrow they will be fine again.
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