{"id":507,"date":"2015-07-08T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerisinfield.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:00:55","slug":"prior-planning-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerisinfield.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/prior-planning-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior Planning &#038; Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than three weeks to go now. Three weeks from now I&#8217;ll be most the way through my fourth day.<\/p>\n<p>So, am I prepared? Not as much as I perhaps could be. Do I have time to do more preparation? Yes. So what do I need to do? Print maps, and walk. Walk a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the time I&#8217;m taking to walk the 200 miles, and at times, I&#8217;ve thought that perhaps it&#8217;s not challenging enough. I think about the times (perhaps a long time ago now) when I&#8217;ve walked between twenty and thirty miles in a day, and when I&#8217;ve walked twenty odd miles a few days on the trot (forgive the pun). However, that was a long time ago. It was when I didn&#8217;t weigh quite as much and it was when I was almost physically fit (almost). The last time I tried walking anywhere near this amount of miles, around fourteen miles a day, several days running (sorry) was plenty. It was more than plenty, actually. The day after I&#8217;d walked 100 miles in 7 days, I had to side-step up and down the stairs because my legs wouldn&#8217;t fully cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>So, I think that puts my mind at rest. It is a challenge, a suitable challenge. But, one has to move upward as well as forward with these things &#8211; perhaps after I&#8217;ve completed this challenge (and after I&#8217;ve become somewhat fitter as a result), I should look to the next one. 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