Are there any walkers here

[ColinJ]

I seem to get fitter from cycling i.e. I recover much quicker now after climbing up a big hill but I just dont seem to get any thinner.

The 5:2 fasting thing is just waiting for you, Phil!

I had a 10:0 break on holiday, but am going back to my 5:2 regime now, starting today.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

The 5:2 fasting thing is just waiting for you, Phil!

I had a 10:0 break on holiday, but am going back to my 5:2 regime now, starting today.

Nah I dont do diets and stuff as I cant be bothered to keep them up and the weight will always come back once you stop.

I am slowly changing what I eat permanently so I don't have to think about if I can keep doing it.

For instance over the past few years I have given up junk food (e.g. mcdonalds, buger king, kfc etc havent been near the places in nearly 7 years) although I did go though a stage when I going into Subways and getting a Foot Long sandwich but I have knocked that on the head now.

I don't drink soft drinks coke etc unless there is absolutely no other choice but given the choice I drink water. I am currently trying to get rid of my urges for sugar as in chocolate etc and replacing that with things like nuts and dried bananas and that seems to be working well now, also I have started eating more eggs on a daily basis. My weight had dropped slightly but what has changed is my body shape, clothes that did look tight now look baggy and I can just tell that I am getting leaner and I feel much fitter as well and other people have said things as they have noticed as well.

What I have to do now is make sure no one buys me any chocolate for xmas as that always does for me and I just pig out until it is all gone

 

[phil_hg_uk]

As someone else said. I think you reach a plateau if you just do the one kind of exercise. I also think age plays a part as well. The older we get, the harder it is to lose weight anyway.

Yes you could be right, the only time I ever lost weight cycling was when I went on a diet that I had no hope of keeping up so once winter kicked in up went the weight again.

Also I can do walking whenever I want without having to set aside time for getting ready etc, sometimes I will go and see a customer in a village outside of town and afterwards go for a walk for a couple of hours in the countryside while I am there I just make sure my waling boots are in the boot of my car.

 

[mrbikerboy73]

I try and get up the Lake District once a year for some walking although I'd love to do some cycling up there. Lots of it is impossible to cycle but I was impressed to see a bunch of MTBers at the top of Helvellyn!

 

[brand]

The 5:2 diet is not meant to be short term but a permanent change to your eating habits. It has long term benefits. There is even some evidence of reduced occurrence of dementia. But mainly increased life expectancy with reduced illnesses. So I can drink to my hearts content... and liver! Must go in the middle of starting some elderberry wine and I have to bottle another 2 gallons of honey cider use my gym and cycle to the pub. Have to leave early to see if I can pick some Sloes for my Sloe Gin....maybe just maybe the 5:2 diet isn't that good.

 

[brand]

I did a 100k once near Ramsbottom it had to be done in less than 24 hours. Overnight non stop, although there was a tea break at a few checkpoints. Routes are not marked it is map reading all the way. About 30-40 kilometres in you find your mate for the rest of the walk/jog someone going at the same speed as you. Boots no good, trainers only.
During the night we couldn't find a footpath ended up doing an extra 4 or 5 kilometres a bit annoying!
Finished with a decent time to spare. But after sitting down having sandwichs and tea I found the walk to the bus stop about 400 yards away agony. My mate for the night stopped in his car to say good bye and I asked for a lift to the bus stop. It was a Sunday so buses infrequent. My intentions were bus to Bury train or Metro (cannot remember which) followed by second bus. Sat there for a while pain in my legs getting worse.....called taxi expensive but I think was going to struggle with all the waiting for public transport. The taxi driver carried everything in to my house for me but refused to carry me! Did 50k about month latter,easy peasy!
Each of the walking clubs (each county has one) that do these events take it in turn to do 100 milers. Never did one as never joined one of the clubs so never got the info but the Ramsbottom event organisers send me an email every few years when the event is on....erhh no thanks.

Just got an email about another long walk/run it turns out the second easy peasy one was not 50k but 50 miles (80k) I think I will decline. If any one else is interested;

http://hmarston.co.uk/rhac/trail/rrr.htm

 

[333]

Recently came back from the Alps and combined early AM cycling (climbs) with afternoon walking, thoroughly enjoyed it even though many times I was on the verge of collapsing in a heap of exhausted ruin. The funny part is that the guide books around the Alps list many of these walks as "family walks" but many are also well over 33% in places with little beneath you to stop you if you slide, fall etc. Absolute killer, but stunning in every sense of the word both on the bike and foot. I can't wait to go back

EDIT: How do I post pics on here and I'll put some up of our walks if you like.

 

[sunrise65]

I have always enjoyed walking and throughout life have gone mainly with friends or by myself. Finding myself back in the Dales where I grew up last year I went out everyday due to having to walk family dog. This was great for getting exercise as I HAD to go out however unpleasant in winter! Since then I have built up to 5miles a day and a rather brisk pace as am on relatively easy tracks. I was going out first thing but then switched to afternoons as couldn't be arsed to get up in the mornings after family dog returned home. I am now thinking of going back to morning walk and then going out on bike in afternoon. I have also thought about walking clubs to help socialise a bit but its hard finding one that is close enough and fits my needs.

As for diets etc I don't do them as I know I can't stick to them and like phil_hg_uk I have changed my long term view of food to make it more achievable to lose weight and keep it off, cutting down on wheat has helped but I love bread and pasta too much to ever get rid of them completely. So far I have lost 3 1/2 stone and more to go but walking has definitely done it for me. I have just reached the point where I want to have something different and something I can go further with hence getting bike out of the shed and joining CC

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Ex-walker/hiker/mountaineer here as well... ex- because I fear that my bad leg (where the dog redesigned it) will never allow me to get back out walking long distance again... Still struggling to manage 4 miles a day with the issues the leg presents, but here are a handful of my pictures of old. But we always used to go away (camping) at Christmas and New Year and would seek out snow and the likes whenever we could. Some of our best memories (film and not scanned in) are from holidays were the temps have dropped down to -15C or lower... wonderful.

Scotland and 1 from Ireland. The very first and last being taken on the same day (Christmas Day 2005). the middle one being the same area as the first & last (my childhood playground) and taken back in 1992, the 4th being from Ireland, around Christmas (Kilkenny area). the 2nd is the only day I ever saw a 'glory' whilst out mountaineering - Bridge of Orchy hills looking over Rannoch Moor.

 

[welsh dragon]

Ex-walker/hiker/mountaineer here as well... ex- because I fear that my bad leg (where the dog redesigned it) will never allow me to get back out walking long distance again... Still struggling to manage 4 miles a day with the issues the leg presents, but here are a handful of my pictures of old. But we always used to go away (camping) at Christmas and New Year and would seek out snow and the likes whenever we could. Some of our best memories (film and not scanned in) are from holidays were the temps have dropped down to -15C or lower... wonderful.

Scotland and 1 from Ireland. The very first and last being taken on the same day (Christmas Day 2005). the middle one being the same area as the first & last (my childhood playground) and taken back in 1992, the 4th being from Ireland, around Christmas (Kilkenny area).

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Beautiful photos. Thanks

 

[cnb]

Yep keen walker here..Based in the North East..So easy ish travel times to the lakes,Yorkshire moors,Dales and lovely Northumberland..Retired now so walk most days when not on the bike or running..Pretty active old git..Sometimes walk around the local country park where i seem to be the only one that's learned to walk without at least one dog..

 

[cnb]

Lovely pics and looks like a nice place to camp..Well done on completing the Munros...

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I've always been mostly a cyclist but I enjoy walking too, these days mostly in the Pentlands straight from home or around Speyside/Cairngorms on my regular holidays there. Best walking memory of recent years was sat with my wife having lunch on the path to Ben Macdui overlooking the Lairig Ghru watching a golden eagle glide past below us. Magic

 

[SpokeyDokey]

One of my favourite mountain walk photo's - not because it is very 'mountainy' but because of the memories it brings back.

This was taken close to the summit of Ill Crag (via Cockly Pike Ridge) on the Scafell Massif.

It was taken about 14 miles into a 21 mile walk with well over 7000' ascent/descent - on a blistering hot day.

My dog lived until he was 12 years and 1 week old and this pic' was taken I week after his 6th birthday - when I look at it I remember all the fantastic days we had in the mountains together and I always think that at the moment this was pic' was taken he was almost exactly halfway through his life. For whatever reason, I find it very poignant.

Despite the very long day he refused to get in the car at the end of the hike as he was hell bent on carrying on! Me? I was knackered!

 

[BrumJim]

I get one walking weekend a year, usually in the Lake District. Had a corker this year just a few weeks ago. Weather was almost perfect, company was good, and I got in some good climbing.
Stayed in Wastwater Youth Hostel (beautiful location, lovely YH), and on Saturday did the horseshoe over Yewbarrow, Red Pike, Steeple, Pillar, Black Sail Pass, Kirk Fell, and then a great pint.
Sunday was part way up Ska Fell, but had to turn back early so I got home in time to put little one to bed.
Sorry - no photos at the moment.