My Walking year is over and I met my target .. TWICE!

Well the 10th April is my “End of Year” for walking and back when I got my HTC Desire and started using CardioTrainer I set myself a target of 500 miles walking for the following year. Even with me being “off the road” for 2 months after my motorcycle accident, I more than made up for the missing miles by having to walk to work during the depths of winter when The McDonaghs were effectively snowed in at the top of our hill.

I went through 500 miles a 5 weeks ago so I set a new revised target of 600 miles before 10th April, and I passed that second target on the 8th! However that now left me with a quandary, what will the target for 2011-12 be?

Hmmmmmm…..

I am tentatively setting that at 1000 miles!

That sounds awfully awfully far …

With that in mind I bought myself a new pair of Hiking books on Saturday, thanks Sister Janet your Birthday Pressie DID go to good use and it was all for me! 🙂

It being a Sunday today I set out on a bit of a dander, planning to do 15 miles along the coast from Portrush to the mouth of the River Bann (The Barmouth) via Portstewart and back. I used my new all aluminium Thermos Flask .. Excellent bit of kit, robust and it keeps 3 big cups of coffee warm for a big long Dander. I also used my new Solar charger and started with 100% phone battery and ended it with 99% after nearly 5 hours of mobile and GPS connection so that was a big #win #win 🙂 It was a gorgeous day, sunny, warm and not too hot. I managed the 15 miles without incident and the legs even the gammy one worked as expected.

Here are some of the piccies I took on the dander, [Click on the image to go to the Facebook gallery)

So only 985 miles to do and only 364 days to do it in 🙂