The best part of a 12 km trek which included much scrambling over rocky narrow paths, slip sliding on lots of wet autumnal leaves, and hauling up some pretty steep steps built into the side of sheer drop cliffs led me and my lovely young friend Lucy to one of the few waterfalls in the UK that you can actually walk behind. I woke up this morning aching in bits I didn't realize I still had, with a really gyppy left knee, but an amazing sense achievement as this is not and easy walk for people much younger and fitter than myself, but I still managed it even though part of the walk back to the car was done in the dark with only the help of our phone torches!
All I can say is well and thank God I took my walking poles with me😳🚶♀️😳
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I somehow missed this post, and just found it. What a brilliant walk! 12 k in the wilderness, with waterfalls!
I’m replying whilst I am lying early in the morning in a (too warm) hotel bedroom in London, having had a drinks-reception work event yesterday evening, which included a standing event for 3 hours and walking around another 5km. And my feet this morning feel it. I cannot believe how much they hurt, but if I had run 5k, they would have been ok.
Wish I had my walking sticks with me at the drinks-reception event! But I must look into how to get more “standing stamina”!
Anyway, your post cheered me up loads, and can’t wait to get to my normal routine, including walking and jogging through our beautiful nature. And that waterfall! I could do with one of those! It can cheer up any tired legs!
Thank you 🙏 My (longer) walking buddy, who is really bit of a surrogate daughter since she lost her Mam last year, is already planning the next one. If we get a good dry day, we plan to do Pen-y-Fan.......now that's a walk, but I'm pretty sure I can manage if I tread my own path at my own pace, and Lucy is great for letting me do just that.
I hear you about "standing stamina" 😟 I have so little of it since my last spinal surgery, and before truth be told, so it's something I could do with working on too. Perhaps I will dig out my old physio sheet that I folowed religiously after my last surgery, and served me well.
I'm OK to walk around all day, or dance all night, but have me standing immobile for more than 20 minutes or so and my back muscles really start to bitch, and soon after I can feel my poor old shattered, much operated upon, spine starting to shift about - a strange and sometimes quite painful experience 🥹
However, I'm still standing as Elton John once sang so well, and I am eternally grateful for all the small mercies I do have 👍🙏👍 Glad to hear I cheered you up, and here's hoping you are bacl to your usual, non-standing, life really soon 😀 I managed to dodge a day trip to the HoP last week for an awards event (lots of standing too!) and I'm glad I did - a 15 hour round trips from mid Wales to London and back are just beyond me now, and I was on annual leave too.
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What am I doing? 
5 km walks all week except today7km
Whats a brisk walking speed for us and using the Active10 App. 🚶♀️🚶
Is anyone still walking?
