Walk this way

Slough Town F.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Over the last few days I've been consciously making an effort to walk more. When the weather has allowed I've used my lunch break as an opportunity to go for a stroll, stretch the legs and get my feet used to walking. Two months into the diet and I've undoubtedly neglected the exercise element while focusing on weightloss, but that is about to change.

In April I will be undertaking a 15 mile walk with a number of friends and acquaintances. My local team (Slough Town Football Club) have a supporters-led end of season sponsored walk and I'll be making the relatively short trip to North Greenford Utd. I say relatively short as previous years have included some frankly ridiculous jaunts to Worthing and Sutton Coldfield.

The club have very kindly adopted the Shine Charity as one of their nominated charities for the walk, presenting me with an opportunity to raise some money for a charity that has become very close to my heart. I'm feeling pretty inspired by the efforts of my brother-in-law who ran the Silverstone Half Marathon at the weekend wearing a Shine vest in honour of his nephew. I'm certainly not ready to be running anywhere any time soon but it remains in my plans to do something along those lines later in the year. The walk will do nicely though as a starting point enabling me to focus my mind on exercise without having to kill myself while still carrying excess lbs.

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