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Month: November 2011

Walking the Sandstone Trail – Day 2

Walking the Sandstone Trail – Day 2

(Day 2’s progress is mostly shown on http://runkeeper.com/user/icottee/activity/57719716 with the final hour on http://runkeeper.com/user/icottee/activity/57755901 due to Runkeeper going odd). Day 2 was a very different day from day 1. The bright sunshine had gone and the day started wet and misty. However, my chance of having a proper breakfast for the first time in over a year cheered me up no end. We had less to walk on this day and we were taking things early so we didn’t actually…

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Walking the Sandstone Trail – Day 1

Walking the Sandstone Trail – Day 1

A while back I came across the Sandstone Trail – a 34 mile trail that starts in Frodsham and finishes in Whitchurch. http://sandstonetrail.co.uk/ has the full info. I’ve always liked the idea of long walks and having done various stages of it Hugo and I decided to take the whole thing in two days. [shashin type=”photo” id=”1,2,5″ size=”small” columns=”3″ order=”user” position=”center”] Our training and prep was pretty basic. Over the course of two or three months we slowly progressed from…

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