December Totals

Monthly Average : 6,961 steps
Best Day : 16,035 - Saturday 19th December

Saturday 19th December included a walk around Reading to take in the Christmas lights (including the new cycle bridge) and to go to the Winter Extravaganza.

November Totals

Monthly Average : 8,132 steps
Best Day : 16,743 steps - Saturday 14th November

Saturday 14th November was the first day of a weekend away to Portishead and Clevedon via the National Trust house at Tyntesfield

October Totals

Monthly Average : 9,370 steps
Best Day : 19,049 - Saturday 17th October

Saturday 17th October was my walk past Ikea and along Linear Park, as detailed here.

IKEA and Linear Park

I wanted a walk which went past Ikea as I wanted to see how the building is going.  I came up with this, including the Linear Walk in Calcot.

The route - courtesy of Google Maps Timeline

September Totals

Monthly Average : 8,947 steps
Best Day : 13,396 - Tuesday 22nd September

Tuesday 22nd September appears to have been a normal day at work !

August Totals

All Green !
Monthly Average : 10,026 steps
Best Day : 24,646 - Saturday 8th August

A low monthly average for an all green month, but I was on holiday and thus able to make sure each day was green.  Saturday 8th August was a reverse (and shorter) version of one of my earlier training walks, as detailed here.

Thames Path - Goring to Pangbourne (and home).

The Summer holidays were nearly over, so on my 'Walking Saturday' I got dropped off in Goring to walk home along the Thames Path.  Interestingly, the Thames Path doesn't go alongside the Thames for about half the distance.

Once I got to Pangbourne, I headed off home.

The Route in Google Earth

Tesco Thames Walk

I wanted to do the reverse of the stretch of Training Walk #3 which went along the north side of the Thames.  However I wanted to save a little bit of effort, so I got dropped a little closer to the Thames of at Tescos .

My Route in Google Earth

July Totals

Monthly Average : 8,429 steps
Best Day : 17,552 - Saturday 11th July

Saturday 11th July was an open day at Harwell.  It involved a lot of walking around the site and looking at science stuff !

June Totals

Monthly Average : 8,099 steps
Best Day : 15,756 - Wednesday 24th June

June was a poor month, but I managed a bit of walking on the last day of Beat the Street - as detailed here.

Last 'Beat The Street' walk of 2015

Before I knew it, it was the last day of Beat the Street 2015.  I'd left it too late in the evening to do a mammoth walk like 2014, but I tried to visit as many boxes as I could before it got too late.

My route in Google Earth

May Totals

All Green !
Monthly Average : 12,857 steps
Best Day : 26,052 - Wednesday 27th May

May included lots of long walks around West Bay, including my longest on Wednesday 27th May, as detailed here.

South West Coast Path - Eype Mouth to Seatown (and back)

Our plan to drive to Seatown and walk back to West Bay was thwarted by a traffic jam on the A35.  So we parked at Eype Mouth and I did a there-and-back walk to Seatown while Val walked back to West Bay, a repeat of Sunday evening's walk.

The route - courtesy of Google Maps Timeline

South West Coast Path - Burton Mere to West Bay (with loop)

This was meant to be a figure of 8 walk from one of the National Trust leaflets, but as Val's knee played up, she drove back after completing the first (longer) loop, so I took the opportunity to walk all the way back to West Bay.

The route - Courtesy of Google Maps Timeline

South West Coast Path - Eype Mouth to West Bay

On the first full day of our West Bay holiday, we were keen to explore.  This walk was a quick there-and-back over the hill from West Bay to Eype Mouth.

The Route in Google Maps

April Totals

Monthly Average : 8,117 steps
Best Day : 16,290 - Thursday 30th April

A lot of April went unrecorded, including a lot of walking in Scotland  Of the days I had my step counter, Thursday 30th April was best.  For reasons not currently remembered, I spent some of the day out by Royal Berks hospital.

Tobermory and Aros Park

We had one full day on Mull and wanted to fit in both walking and exploring the whole island by car - so the walking had to fit into a morning.  We set off from our B&B and walked down to Aros Park.  Each waterfall we passed was bigger than the previous one and we ended up taking a side path to see the largest one before looping the lake and heading for home.

Our Route in Google Earth

Three Walks around Iona - South, High & North

After several days of travel both to and through the Scottish Inner Hebrides, this was our first chance to walk.  Iona isn't big, so I was determined to walk it all !

Fitting it all in amongst exploring the town and abbey wasn't easy, so we didn't quite manage to explore every beach I'd hoped, but over three walks during the day, we reached the southernmost point, (very nearly) the northernmost point, as well as the highest point on Iona.

Our 1st Walk - to the South of the Island

Our 2nd Walk - to the highest point on the island

Our 3rd Walk - to the North point of the island.

March Totals

Monthly Average : 8,017 steps
Best Day : 37,864 - Saturday 21st March

Saturday 21st March was another training walk - this time 15.9 miles - as detailed here.

Purley - GLuG Walk #2

This was a Saturday afternoon walk with one of our Church Children's groups called 'GLuG'.

Our route in Google Earth

About 3.1 miles.

Training Walk #3

Again I couldn't join the main group on their training walk, so I did a slightly modified version of my own.

I started close to Tilehurst Station & went west towards Pangbourne, picking up the Thames Path at Purley.  Cross the river to Whitechurch and back east along the north of the Thames towards Reading, picking up a small part of the Chiltern Way Southern Extension at Mapledurham.  Cross the river again at Reading Lock and back west along the Thames Paths .

It was advertised as 15 miles.  I ended up doing 15.9 miles.  It took me 5h 10mins (4h 51mins excluding rest stops) .  I then walked back home, adding 1.2 miles in 27 mins.

My Route in Google Earth

Selsey Bill

A short walk as we had my parents with us.  We repeated a favorite walk - along the coast in a loop at the tip of Selsey Bill.  Afterwards we popped along to Bognor Regis.

Our walk in Google Earth

February Totals

Monthly Average : 9,377 steps
Best Day : 26,060 - Saturday 21st February

Saturday 21st February was a Training walk along the Thames and out to the Pigeon Tower as detailed here

Training Walk #2

I couldn't make the 2nd training walk on the same day as everyone else, so I did it a couple of weeks later.

The second walk was published as 10 miles long.  However I lost the official route early on and had to do it from memory.  I missed out an up and down hill loop as I knew that the main group had also missed it out.

In the end my half-remembered walk was 10.2 miles which I did on 3 hours 30 minutes (that's 2.9 mph).  

My route in Google Earth

January Totals

Monthly Average : 8,155 steps
Best Day : 24,675 - Saturday 31st January

Saturday 31st was the first day of a weekend away at Christchurch.  We did a long evening walk from the Travel Lodge to the coast, back & forth along the coast, and back to the hotel.

Training Walk #1

My workplace are planning to enter a group into the Thames Path Challenge this coming September.. They're putting on a number of training walks, so I joined them with a vague idea that I might do part of the Challenge.

This first walk published as 6 miles long, but I measured it at 5.6, which we managed in 1 hour 45 minutes (that's 3.2 mph).  With walking there and back, that made  8.5 miles before noon !

The route in Google Earth