I have been back home for 3 full days now, nearly all that time has been spent with my feet up, literally. I have hardly been able to walk since finishing the challenge. I will hopefully be seeing a doctor tomorrow to find out what's wrong, possibly a sprained right ankle but i will see... While sitting about I've uploaded the photos to picasaweb and along with captions, I've manually set the location of each photo (5 hours for that). There's a few YouTube videos uploaded
TGO Challenge – Day 11
I was up at 4, after some coco pops and dried milk and covering my feet with duct tape I set off at 5am. I noticed that another challenger had turned up during the night. I walked down the road to where it looked like there was a bridge shown on the map, once by the river side there was no bridge just two cables going across and some sort of scientific testing gear. I thought about shimmying across but thought better of it. A ford
TGO Challenge – Day 10
It was another long day in terms of distance, 17-18 miles from Ballater to Tarfside and walked over Mount Keen (a Munro). The day started with Bacon Sandwiches which Phil cooked in the hostel, we left at about 8:15. Shortly after starting to climb out of Ballater, the rain started. The weather wasn't sure what to do, this is the worst kind when walking. Constantly putting jackets on and off. The walk was over moorland today and parts of it where signposted, but later heather
TGO Challenge – Day 9
I'm gonna keep this post short because I'm tired. It was another early start with a quick call at the supermarket in Braemar for an ice cream for Breakfast. Even early in the morning it was hot. Today myself and Phil walked from Braemar to Ballater, while most challengers took the day off. Our route I'm guessing was about 18 miles which we did in about 6 hours. The going was mainly on roads and some hard packed forestry tracks, I hate roads. We walked through
TGO Challenge – Day 8
Today we set off at 6:30 from our Derry Lodge wildcamp with the aim of getting to Braemar early for Breakfast in the Old Bakery. There were 9 miles of track and road walking to cover the get there, Phil was on a mission to get there for his 12 piece TGO special breakfast. The walking was fairly uneventful and boring until reaching Marr Lodge, which is a huge building which I guess the Laird for the Marr estate would have lived. I believe it