Yes I know the title is a bit outlandish but then read on and you’ll see why.
After the success of October’s walk over the Nick of Pendle to the Pendle Hill summit and back again I was flushed with success and decided to organise another walking forum meet-up and opted for two old favourites – Whernside and Ingleborough.
It’s something of a badly kept secret that at times I have had problems in this area – getting all excited about doing the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge in May 2010 was a definite downfall as I failed to prepare for what a challenge walking in this environment could be. Regardless, I posted a meet-up on the walking forum and then duly, mostly forgot about it as I messed about temporarily moving homes, staying in hotels, trips to London…that sort of thing!
The meet got nearer and I got a quite nasty bout of gastroenteritis … then a cold and those dear reader are the reasons proffered as to why I once again failed to do any training for what is essentially a tough walk.
The morning of Sunday the 9th of March arrived and as usual I reached the start off destination a full fifty five minutes early – there will be a time when I don’t get to the start way ahead of us …it just has not happened yet!
Test post!