Walking is simple. We are physically set up to perform what in reality has taken millions of years to perfect and what we now take for granted. Mobility, balance, gait, speed, direction awareness, multi sensory perception, fight or flight and health and leisure, some of the many areas to be explored when talking about walking. Walking is easy, so why do we make it complicated? Why do many of us in the developed world neglect our awareness about weight, diet…
Strange title for a walking blog perhaps? Remembering how to walk. Well surely walking is as easy as....well putting one foot in front of the other? Of course but today was a special day. It was the first long walk I have done since before the lockdown and the beginning of the pandemic crisis, where movement of any kind was curtailed, questioned and denied as a collective, personal and natural right. If you have ever seen cows who come to…
It’s hard, this job, working out where to walk for future clients. Believe that? No, I wouldn’t. A solo walk can be an introspective, selfish existence so one has to remember to have the critical eye, to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, so to speak which is, may I add, not to be recommended on a proper walk. I might for example not care so much about the steep terrain and mile after mile of mud and puddles but…