Da Rules

[faustus]

Ok, I had a chat with myself and decided my gaff, my rules, so -


On Long Distance Walks

These will be completed in the order that they are completed in, so I don't have to start at one end and don't have to walk the same direction, nor do I have to do specific routes in order if it's more convenient not to.

Whilst from the point of view of checking out public transport I will Have A Plan, the failure to reach town a or b is simply a walk postponed not a sign of weakness. If I'm in the middle of nowhere I am vulnerable, and more vulnerable if alone.

Whilst I will aim to follow the official route, deviations from this due to local conditions, weather, blockages, exhaustion, map reading errors etc do not mean I have to go back and do it again properly. Although if I choose to, that's my own lookout.

I am trying to get fit, but this is meant to be fun.

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Are you using an ipod? I can *only* manage long solitary walks with the help of audio books. Scenery and birds just don't do it for me.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I did between UoK and Whitstable and Reculver and Broadstairs, but not yesterday, although I had it with me. The combination of random weather and some tricky navigation meant it never came out.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

This sound like good rules!

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I was spending a long time looking for a bus that would get me close enough to the lighthouse north of Broadstairs where I cut a corner from the path (and then caught a bus because a) knackered b) needed to catch last bus home). I've missed a car park and a private estate. I think picking it up again at the harbour should not cause a sense of shame and failure which it was headed towards.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Sounds like you too are a graduate of the schoold of "Let me take my achievement and find a way to feel bad about it". Let us rejoice in everything that mitigates against that and points back to "Hey, I achieved stuff!"

[maryread.livejournal.com]

Fun is good. Mobility is a blessing.

I try to find something on my walk to take a cellphone photo of, and then post on FB, but usually I am too busy thinking. This and that. Sometimes obsessively. No music for me, but everyone gets to make their own rules. Maybe they're more like guidelines, little missy.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Yes, guidelines. Coz I want dem to be Da Rules except for when I break dem (ie I want Gravesend to Hastings in order even if I end up doing bits anyway).

I think music would have broken my concentration on the rather muddy steep hills on (indeed in) which I was in constant danger of going [thank you] over [you're welcome].