tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post6044124433801399917..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: That's What I Call a Walk...Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-78836498391908687212009-12-04T18:05:59.286+00:002009-12-04T18:05:59.286+00:00Peter, you do have to be comfortable with your own...Peter, you do have to be comfortable with your own thoughts to be a runner or walker, which not many people seem to be these days. Do your sons also spend very much time with earbuds in?<br /><br />Nige, are you aware of the walking exploits of Will Self?<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/c2fj8p<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yzm3y3zSuttonhttp://www.marginnotes.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-43202079330629471252009-12-02T15:01:42.259+00:002009-12-02T15:01:42.259+00:00Marathons Peter, Marathons, or even half marathons...Marathons Peter, Marathons, or even half marathons, very convivial, clubby, a hoot.<br />Try the New York, will have to be next year, it's just happened. Whilst running through the Hispanic areas don't accept water, normally laced with Tequila.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-51565524079643373572009-12-02T14:17:48.119+00:002009-12-02T14:17:48.119+00:00I have two sons in whom I am well pleased. The el...I have two sons in whom I am well pleased. The elder was a tubby in school, but became a fitness fanatic and triathlon runner in his late teens. Now in his mid-twenties, he actually ran for Canada in Oz earlier this year. The younger, now sixteen, has become a very accomplished and serious (ball) hockey player who has been invited to join adult leagues. As their parents have no athletic background beyond pick-up games, I consider them both to be proofs that neither nature nor nurture tells the whole story.<br /><br />I attend the elder's races and coach in the younger's league and I have become facinated by the cultural differences between these grueling solitary pursuits and team sports. The ethos's and spectators couldn't be more different. Running/walking is actually quite a bore and is marked by non-stop hype from fellow runners and fans designed to do nothing more than get them to the end of the hell. When I once asked my son whether he actually enjoyed his running, he looked at me as if I was out of my mind. Enjoyment plays no part in it whatsoever, and one gets the impression occasionally that it simply wouldn't do to be having too much fun. It's all about overcoming pain. Spectators don't form friendships born of post-race beers together. Unsuprisingly, it the sport of choice for neurotics, moralistic prigs and fans who consider a mid-race snack of pita and hummus to be the highlight of the event. It's really not all that surprising that the heyday of its popularity was the Victorian era or that Scandinavia's favourite spectator sport is cross-country skiing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-88790623729114195172009-12-02T09:30:08.827+00:002009-12-02T09:30:08.827+00:00Fantastic stuff! I love the chap who wears his opp...Fantastic stuff! I love the chap who wears his opponents down "with a relentless dog-trot".Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-90232923972926900662009-12-01T20:57:12.758+00:002009-12-01T20:57:12.758+00:00That's walking Malty, that's walking...That's walking Malty, that's walking...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-75396054529686085202009-12-01T20:12:30.584+00:002009-12-01T20:12:30.584+00:00All done in hobnail boots and thorn proof tweed, n...All done in hobnail boots and thorn proof tweed, no satnav or Gortex.<br /><a href="http://www.rheinsteig.de/index.php?id=3&L=1" rel="nofollow">this</a> is Europe's latest, Bonn to Wiesbaden, 325 kilometers taking in one of the continents most picturesque river valleys, I suspect that I will be volunteered for it next summer.<br /><br />Britains best is still the walk from Loch Maree to Dundonell via the Shenevall bothy and <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nafirchlis.co.uk/image/hills/hills112.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nafirchlis.co.uk/anteal.htm&h=300&w=400&sz=14&tbnid=myvwcR72wFm09M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAn%2BTeallach&hl=en&usg=__x0ZghnPZs_aBdrfUgdG2T1NfuVs=&ei=jXcVS9LTJNKMjAfFxd2PBg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&ved=0CBUQ9QEwBA" rel="nofollow">An Teallach</a> (the forge) thirty years ago it was truly the last mainland wilderness walk then some bright spark wrote an article, wilderness no more but still a life enhancing experience, easily done in 2 days.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.com