Today was the day for my 12 mile walk. Realised I have to cut back on the alcohol, again!!! at least until the Moonwalk is done. Honest I'm not an alcoholic, but I'm really realising the effect alcohol has on the body now that I'm in training for the Moonwalk. Had far too much to drink on Friday night again and so my body was still feeling very lethargic and bloated first thing this morning.....
However, by 12.30 pm I decided to go for it. What lovely weather for a 12 mile walk.... All was going well until about 2 miles from home I became desperate for the loo!!!, probably another effect of too much alcohol, or perhaps I shouldn't have had that extra cup of tea!!! I was still a good mile away from the scheduled loo stop in Sainsbury's so I decided to do a short detour into the local park, where I remembered there was some toilets near the cafe, but then horror - the loos had been closed!!!! Oh no what should I do??? Well what I decided to do was phone my daughter to take me home, which luckily she did. Not sure how I'm going to cope with the loo situation on the night .... I'm sure it's more psychological than anything else, as soon as I start walking I need to go!!!!
Anyway, it was about 2 pm when I got back on route, my daughter dropped me off where I'd made the detour and off I went again.. I carried on, stopped at Sainsbury's and bought sweeties - and continued on the planned route. Next stop was at a friend's house at about the 7 mile mark, again for a toilet stop. I was here about 20 mins, well you can't just pee and go!!!! Next stop was at about 9.5 mile mark, again at another friends for loo stop, didn't really need to go but thought I should as I had the chance, again about another 20 mins stop. Time was now getting on and I had bbq'd fish waiting for me at a neighbours house, so I decided to shave just a little bit off my walk because the the time. When I got home I checked the stop watch - which showed 3 hours 20 mins actual walking time. Even though I had actually been out for about 4 and half to 5 hours....
I got showered, and went to my friends for a lovely meal and a small glass of wine - well two but that's all!
Having checked the actual mileage on map my run I find that I did 11 miles and I'm very happy with that - still felt that I could have walked more, which is just as well really!!!!
Feel slightly achy now, but I'm going to give my feet a nice relaxing pedicure in a mo...
Next walk scheduled for Tuesday, when I plan to walk the 6 miles to work.
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I did a 10 mile walk last week after a night on the pop and felt like I'd been run over. Did 12 miles yesterday (haven't blogged it yet) and felt so much better. Alcohol is off the menu at weekends for the next few weeks, it's unbelievable the difference it makes isn't it!
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