Our Training Blog
June 9th 2024
Just 2 hours west of Newbury the most magnificent scenery awaits. Today was our most testing hike where we took on the Horseshoe trek at Pen Y Fan. Beautiful only comes close to the landscape, it is absolutely stunning with rolling mountains and valleys as far as the eye can see, and we were very lucky that we could see for miles and miles.
Although Andy P and Amanda had to miss this one, the team spirits were bolstered with Bex (NSK Volunteer) and Harry (Simon’s son) coming along for the 9.5 mile walk. Have a look at our video to see how we got on…
We will be updating our training adventures as we approach the 6th July - more to come here very soon!
May 6th 2024
May bank holiday Monday - it was a damp and soggy day and we’d agreed to meet at The Clere School in Burghclere at 6pm for a hike that Terry had mapped out on AllTrials, a great phone app with zillions of footpaths etc.
We took the opportunity on this first ‘real’ training hike to record our launch video which you can see below, we wil be doing more of these as we go!
The 8 mile loop gave us a chance to try out some new kit (mainly Simon’s trip to a store for rucksack, waterproof trousers and head torch!) and also see how our fitness was getting up Beacon Hill.
With 2 months to go we’ve got a fair bit of training yet to do but the walk was great fun. As volunteers we see each other almost every week but rarely have time to actually get to know each other so the 3 hour hike whizzed by as we passed the time chatting and questioning Terry if he was lost!
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Saturday 6th July 2024