Only a few to go now!

There are only a few days left till "the big day"! I will be entering this years GMFR less prepared than either of the two previous times.


A holiday in Woodbridge (Suffolk) did provide quite a lot of "walking around", particularly on the firs Sunday, when we spent the whole day wandering around the town, getting to know the place - well worth it too, I'd say - and in fact we probably did clock up quite a few miles - some of it up and down hills; the tale told about Suffolk (and Norfolk too) that it is "very flat" is, in my experience, far from true. The rest of the holiday was just tourist sight seeing walking - around sites such as Sutton Hoo (very interesting!), Snape Maltings, Orford, Aldeburgh and Framlingham; no serious cross country walking or anything though. Our after dinner perambulations on the last Friday did attract the attention of the Town Pastors though - they must have been having a quiet night to take an interest in 4 middle aged blokes who had downed a quarter bottle of wine each with a meal. I wonder if they ever get an invasion of "girls" from neighbouring Essex who need help negotiating the streets with the legendary white stillies after an excess of alcopops, or whether that's not only stereotyping the populace of the Eastern Counties, but street pastors too!


Returning from the holiday with (despite the superb weather) a really heavy cold - the type that goes right through your body with every possible symptom you can think of, pretends to go away, then returns again...and again.... has not been very conducive to getting out and about over the bank holiday weekend (not to mention the appalling cold and wet Sunday!), but today, I did manage a two hour walk along the canal up to Wednesbury and back via the streets. The hard surface walking is good practice for next Sunday's walk, though the course in Sutton involves rather more gradients. Feet hurting from the first few steps didn't actually get any worse, but not much better either - I think its going to be tough this year! Felt done in by the end of today's walk and I'm evidently showing the effects in my movements around the house. The sponsorship is encouraging though, and I know the atmosphere and the people of Sutton will be too on the day!