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Virtual Challenge - Europe from top to bottom!

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Northerner said:
Well done! Sounds like a lovely walk Ally 🙂
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It was and it wasn't, it didn't rain but it was cold and very windy. Blew all they cobwebs away.

I've decided I'm going to ignore the pain in my hips and knee and just get out there and do it, so I clocked up another 4 miles yesterday walking out at Culloden. I don't know if it's helping anything or not, but I'm going to keep on with it.
 
AlisonM said:
It was and it wasn't, it didn't rain but it was cold and very windy. Blew all they cobwebs away.

I've decided I'm going to ignore the pain in my hips and knee and just get out there and do it, so I clocked up another 4 miles yesterday walking out at Culloden. I don't know if it's helping anything or not, but I'm going to keep on with it.
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Excellent! I hope that it doesn't cause you too much pain and problems 🙂 My dad took me to Culloden in 1975 🙂
 
Yet more distance on the pedometer for me:

2085
3369
6340
6492
7415
3808
5797
6583
5319
4378
 
Great stuff Mark, I'll do a progress report later today to see how much farther down Europe we've got! 🙂 No running for me today, too flippin' 'ot! 😱
 
Not sure how you would add this, but does moving 1000kg of building stone and wood over a distance of 37m count?

The builders merchant couldn't get the delivery near the house so I ended up manually transferring it.
 
Mark T said:
Not sure how you would add this, but does moving 1000kg of building stone and wood over a distance of 37m count?

The builders merchant couldn't get the delivery near the house so I ended up manually transferring it.
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It certainly does count! That would have done wonders for your levels, I imagine! 🙂
 
Another 22k for me, including some on the shore of Lake Garda on holiday last week!
 
rhall92380 said:
Another 22k for me, including some on the shore of Lake Garda on holiday last week!
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Wonderful Richard! Whereabouts on Lake Garda were you? I stayed in Limone once, and visited Malcesine and Riva del Garda - really beautiful 🙂
 
Northerner said:
Wonderful Richard! Whereabouts on Lake Garda were you? I stayed in Limone once, and visited Malcesine and Riva del Garda - really beautiful 🙂
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Stayed in Garda. It has a nice promenade to Bardolino and beyond - ideal for a run before breakfast.

Also visited Malcesina, Riva, Sirmeone - and Gardaland for some great white knuckle rides!

Also had excursions to Venice and the Dolomites - the coach took us over 6000 feet up into the South Tyrol, and stopped and Bolzano where there is an exhibition about Otzi, the man found preserved in the ice for 5000 years - the science and mysteries are facinating.

Have to agree the lake and surrounding mountains are really beautiful - highly recommended.
Richard
 
Does this count?.. One hor of walking on Monday to find the Birmingham canal and a pub because I insisted that I could only take my tablets with an alcoholic drink:D (the cosmopolitan cocktail was lovely)

Then another hour of walking on Tuesday on the hunt to find champagne in Selfridges:mad because again that was the only way I could have my tablets::D

Today no alcohol hunts😱 but a one hour walk with Susie:D
 
AJLang said:
Does this count?.. One hor of walking on Monday to find the Birmingham canal and a pub because I insisted that I could only take my tablets with an alcoholic drink (the cosmopolitan cocktail was lovely)

Then another hour of walking on Tuesday on the hunt to find champagne in Selfridges because again that was the only way I could have my tablets::D

Today no alcohol hunts😱 but a one hour walk with Susie:D
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Go on then, since it was purely for medicinal reasons! :D
 
Northerner said:
Go on then, since it was purely for medicinal reasons! :D
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. Makes me tempted to go on a pub crawl to see if that will be counted:D. But guess I'm too old for those now:(. Glad to report another three 50 minute Susie walks to add to the total🙂
 
A few more pedometer logs from me

5453
11188
5070
3695
7346
7881
6616
6360

So how far have we got now?
 
Virtual Tour(Real )

Hi i have iust done a Bridges tour of the uk. The Tyne,Tweed,Firth of Forth,Mersey,Severn,Thames,Humber & Tees in three days ! 1200mile on motorbike park at one end and then walked across & back. Was up first morning at 3 with engine in my head going. Had lie in next morn till 6 from Keswick. And on the last day from Egham was up at 5 and on Tower Bridge at 7.05 on a sunday morn. Home at 6.30 that night(near Newcastle). Ask me if was tired ? Bgs where hard to keep right sitting on bike for hours then walking some realy impresive Bridges (had a couple of 2s on a evening when i was trying to calm things down but felt on top of the world ! raising more than ?1000 for diabetes uk) Does that count ! Love the talk from everybod.
 
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HOBIE said:
Hi i have iust done a Bridges tour of the uk. The Tyne,Tweed,Firth of Forth,Mersey,Severn,Thames,Humber & Tees in three days ! 1200mile on motorbike park at one end and then walked across & back. Was up first morning at 3 with engine in my head going. Had lie in next morn till 6 from Keswick. And on the last day from Egham was up at 5 and on Tower Bridge at 7.05 on a sunday morn. Home at 6.30 that night(near Newcastle). Ask me if was tired ? Bgs where hard to keep right sitting on bike for hours then walking some realy impresive Bridges (had a couple of 2s on a evening when i was trying to calm things down but felt on top of the world ! rising more than ?1000 for diabetes uk) Does that count ! Love the talk from everybod.
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It most definitely counts Hobie, what a great and original challenge - well done on raising so much money 🙂 Using my mysterious formula I'll translate the bridge walking, plus an element for all the travelling and long days into miles along our virtual tour 🙂
 
Well done everyone! We've now done a further 258k on our journey and gone from Diekirch in Luxembourg to the summit of Mont Donon in France, via Liverdun! 🙂

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Liverdun:
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MontDonon (reconstructed Roman Temple):
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I did a five mile walk yesterday after work, it wasn't actually raining so I had no choice but to get out there.
 
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