Tag: walking
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Why I Quit Walking and Cycling in 2026
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe reason I quit walking and cycling, this year is the same. I don’t feel safe because of road works that aim to seperate cars from cyclists, without addressing the key issue of traffic density. Highlight: I cycled 2700km, ran 945km, hiked 89km and walked 890km this year. A year earlier I…
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The Value of Rural Walks
Reading Time: 4 minutesSome series, like Last of the Summer Wine, follow people going on local walks and getting up to mischief. We often hear of people that love to go for walks on the weekend. The issue, as traffic density increases is that the local walks that were along quiet roads are now along…
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Walking Along a Dry Lake Bed in the Vallée De Joux
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNormally there is water where I walked yesterday. At first I walked along the stones, where it was dry. After a moment I decided to take off my shoes and begin to walk through the mud and sediment. In so doing my feet sank as deep as my ankles. The mud…
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Quality of Walking Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an ideal world, we step out of our home and we go for a walk, like they did in The Last of the Summer Wine, and we socialise, and see local people. During the pandemic we could step out of the house, and go for a walk, without worrying about traffic,…
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The Value of Sporty Redundancy
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years, and years, I loved to rock climb, explore via ferrata, hike and more but as soon as Autumn came and people went indoors the social calendar dried up until the next spring. With cycling, to a large degree you have the same issue. As soon as the nights shorten, or…
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The Cancelled Saturday Plan Rain
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning you might have noticed quite particular. Yesterday it was drizzling. This meant that we could go for a run, despite the rain, and end, still dry. This morning however a bike ride was cancelled, or maybe even several. The reason is that it was wetting rain, or “heavy rain” as…
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The Calm Week
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor two or three weeks I was afraid of overdoing it, and then the bad weather came, and public holidays, and suddenly I’m resting more than I expected to. Yesterday would have been an exhausting ride if it had taken place, but due to fresh snow, wind and rain it was cancelled.…
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A Bridge Too Far
Reading Time: 5 minutesYesterday I walked to a Coop shop in Nyon by foot, to shop for a day. Rather than taking the car I chose to walk down from Eysins, across the narrow, really dangerous road and bridge to get to the other side. Along the way I saw two dog walkers question whether…
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Why I Switched Away From Minimalist Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the pandemic I would walk from one and a half hours per day every single day of the week for months. In that time I believe that my feet swelled, making normal shoes more and more uncomfortable to wear. To be more specific. I found that the top of my foot,…
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On group Activities that Challenge Me Physically
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo days in a row I participated in activities that pushed me physically. On sunday it was a 60km ride with 900m of climbing and a 25km/h wind and the next day it was a 9.4km walk which is pushing my endurance further than usual. I found myself thinking that I should…