Ive finished! Ive walked 1200 miles in 7 weeks and 4 days! Ive walked along roads, through fields, along rivers, over moors and over mountains. Ive had all sorts of weather from scortching hot to bitterly cold, gale winds, fog, thunder and lightening, but on the whole I think Ive been very lucky with the weather! Its been very hard mentally and physically at times but also very enjoyable and life enhancing. The wildlife and scenery have been amazing and I was even lucky enough to see an otter and just yesterday a seal. I will continue with the blog during my recovery time in Orkney as I know some people are interested to see the amazing sights of these islands. My thanks to everyone that has followed my blog for your encouragement and your generous donations to Naomis House Childrens Hopsice. It gives me great pleasure to know my efforts will help to support such a worthy cause.


LEJOG - Lands End John O Groats

Thanks for visiting my blog... This expedition has been two months in the planning and training and will hopefully be two months in the execution. I will endeavour to entertain you with a few tales and interesting pictures of my trip as I travel the length of Great Britain in my Lejog challenge... so please call back and send me messages of support to boost my tired legs!

I am collecting sponsorship for Naomi's House childrens hospice. Naomis house provides support and respite care to people under the age of 18 who are unlikely to live in to adulthood. They have two facilities in Hampshire costing 45 million per year to run, serving sick children in seven counties. They are 93% funded by charitable donations.

You can sponsor my trek at http://www.justgiving.com/Malcolm-Woodford

Saturday 8 May 2010

Day one... Well it was always going to be an eventful day wasn't it!
The good: I've started! I don't have any new blisters yet, The coach
was on time, The sun came out briefly, Watching the surfers, looking
at the beautiful scenery and the nice newzealanders I shared dinner
with (hi hope your enjoying your hols)
The not so good: it rained a fair bit, my knees still haven't
recovered fully from last weekends training, I got almost no sleep on
the coach down here last night.
The disasterous: I accidentally deleted the ordnance survey 1:50000
map of the entire Uk from my phone last night while fiddling with
iTunes but didn't realise until this morning... Aaaarrrgh! Yes I did
have a few minutes of huffy at lands end this morning. In true project
management fashion and thanks to my good friend Sebatien there is a
recovery plan in place though so I should have them again at Bristol.
Until then it's ten days of road walking using an AA road atlas! At
least I'll make good time I suppose even if it's not so pleasant as
the intended route.

Please let there be no problems on day 2!

Daily stats:
Start - Lands End
Finish - Saint Ives
Mileage - 20
Hours - 11am to 7.30pm
Sleeping - Saint Ives travellers and surfers bunk house £14.40

That's all folks ;-)

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