Eight Days Until the Rail Trail Walk Begins

I did the home - town - Mt Cargill - Upper Junction Road - Home circuit. I left home at 6am and did the 20km loop at 9.50am.

Timimgs - Logan Park 1 hout, Halfway up Mt Cargill Road 2 hours, Near bottom of Upper Junction Road = 3 hours

No serious aches and pains. However it is now only 8 days until I start the Rail Trail.

Roof Painting

Since school finished on 21 December at lunchtime I have been consumed with painting the roof. The first two days included water blasting and painting on one coat. On the 3rd day I only managed 2 hours as the rain came. This meant no walking on the three painting days.

On Christmas Day we went to Vic and Trudy's for lunch. For tea we went to Shirley's with friends. Denise and I decided to leave the car in Helena Street. We taxied home costing $27.

On Boxing Day I left St Leonards to walk and get my car. The 11kms took 1 hr and 50 mins.

Leith Valley Walks

1. Yesterday the Caversham Harrier's Walking Group met at Woodhaugh Gardens at 1pm on a very hot day (24 degrees). 8 of us walked through the gardens, via Ross Creek and around the McGoun Dam. FRom there it was all down hill to our starting point. The distance was around 12km.

2. Today I met Craig at Woodhaugh Gardens. We walked up Malvern Street, Patmos Avenue, crossed the motorway bridge onto Pinehill Road. We turned left at the shop and did a winding road to North Road coming out at Buccleugh Street. We did the short walk back to our strting point. It was a muggy day taking about 1 hour 5o mins. It was a slower walk so we probably covered 10km.

Grandchildren in Christchurch

Denise and I took Daneka and Shayla to Christchurch for the weekend to see Nadine. I stayed withLyn as there was not enough room at Nadine's. On Saturday morning I walked from Lyn's to Nadines which as a 8km walk.

On Sunday morning I drove to Hagley Park and walked around Hagley Park North. It took an hour to do the approx. 6km walk.

Rail Trail Necessities to take

• Plasters
• Suntan lotion
• Vaseline
• Panadol
• Sunglasses
• Electric Shaver
• Creative Zen mp3 player inc power adaptor
• Cellphone
• Torch
• Camera incl charged batteries
• Dictophone
• Notebook, pencil, pen

Clothing

• School brimmed sunhat
• Shorts (1) or (2)
• Socks (10)
• trainers
• underclothing (6) plus boxer shorts
• t-shirts (6)
• sweatshirt (1)
• blue nylon parka

Personal

• Toothbrush and tothpaste
• towel
• cake of soap
• shampoo (small bottle)