Walking Practice

This weekend I decided it was about time I did some walking and donned my walking boots in preparation for the 3 Peaks.

My mum is a keen walker so today I thought it would be nice to join her, being Mother's Day and all that, on a little walk around Guildford. We set off from our house (right infront of Pewley Downs) and headed back over the downs towards Shere. As our challenge involves a few steep hills (!!!) we climbed up to St. Martha's church which has a lovely view over a little village called Chilworth.

Top of St. Martha's hill overlooking Chilworth

Then we dropped back down and picked up a footpath and then had an even steeper climb up to Newlands Corner - a lovely view point and where hundreds of bikers on a Sunday meet up.  It is also a popular spot for walkers, picnic goers, runners etc so there were plenty of people around when we got there. There is a Visitors Centre and a cafe - perfect opportunity for a pit stop (not that we really needed it); cup of tea and a flapjack.

Newlands Corner Visitors Centre and Cafe (apparently the chips are amazing)

View from Newlands Corner over the downs

Having consulted the OS map, we decided to take a different route home and having dodged flying gold balls as we crossed Merrow Golf Club, we reached home in record time having covered 7 miles in under 3 hours (including our rest stop).

Next walk 10 miles I think, today's walk was a nice start but not challenging at all! Back to the running this week as well, need to keep the training at a steady pace now otherwise I won't be looking forward to the 20th May.

Until next time...