37 Miles!

As hoped we upped our training last weekend and managed to do 3 days of back to back walking in practice, building up from 10 miles on the first day, 15 on the second and back down to 12 on the third making it a total of 37 miles in 3 days! I have to admit the last mile on the second day was a bit of a killer and made me think why are we doing this...however despite the aches and pains we did carry on to do 12 miles the next day and it was worth it, not only did we not ache as much as I thought, (apart from really bad pain from my ankle which I now have a lump on my bone, which I not sure if it was due to the walking or if it was already there and I made it worse, just need to re-adjust how I tie my boots next time to see if it fixes the problem), we was left at the end of the 3 days feeling really positive and although know it will be a real challenge, it is do-able! And as a bonus the last day was really nice, sun came out and a lovely walk to boot! We also saw over the 3 days several large birds of prey...not sure what they were, 2 hares and 2 groups of young stags just to make the weekend complete.