The Wrekin and The Ercall

Distance: 8.24 km (5.12 mi)
Time: 2 hours
Average speed: 4.12 km/h (2.56 mph)
Time to trig point: 32 minutes 42 seconds

Beautiful morning. Some clouds away to the north and east but none over the Wrekin itself.

In anticipation of nicer weather I'd been looking for a better way of carrying water around. Normally I have a litre bottle in my backpack, but I wanted something I could carry around outside the backpack and also when I didn't have the backpack at all. I tried a 0.75 l bottle with a hook to attach to my belt but that just bounced around at my waist and tended to pull my trousers down. I ended up holding on to it all the time. Instead I've gone for a bladder-and-hose thing I can drink from without taking the backpack off, and just carrying the 0.75 l bottle when I don't have the backpack.

Shiny

My brand new car. Now I have to get used to worrying about my vehicle again, it was nice being able to leave a delapidated old thing in the street.

Updates

I've been doing the odd walk without blogging it. There has been a couple of Sunday morning walks on the Chase, a walk from Rugeley to Stafford along the canals and one more sponsored walk.

The sponsored walk was on the 11th this month, organised by and starting/ending at work. Along the Trent and Mersey to Handsacre, then by road to Hill Ridware, across fields to Colton, the Staffordshire way back to the canal, then back to the factory for 10 miles. There were about 22 walkers and 3 runners. We all finished and all enjoyed it, although Matt (who was one of the runners) said he couldn't walk properly before Monday.