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A Comedy Of Errors!!

Trail Walker training with Duck!
Well we started off an hour later than we/I had planned which was OK as we expected about 8hrs so still time to get home for hubby to leave for work.

Problem 1 - Leon had lent my his 201 .... I put it on the charger but couldn't work out how to take it off! Doh! So returned to my clumpy Timex.
Problem 2 - GPS watch battery dying meant the display went so ended up with just a watch :-(

The 1st section of the walk was great! The Ivanhoe Way is very clearly marked and the path was good. No real problems or excitement until we did a complete circle at about 13m! This added about 1m.

After that the next section (up to about 17m) was again uneventful but we looked at the time and map and started to think of going home.

That's when the fun started! We followed the path and ended up in a different place to expected! Found where we were and carried on. Passed a restored windmill and across a few fields ... yet somehow that windmill was always in sight! We were doing a loop again!

Back on track and again confident we knew where we were ... heading for Packington. We soon realised that Packington was a different village! Whoops again we were going wrong! Again we hadn't noticed us going wrong!

By this time hubby was on the phone stropping ... the casserole was apparently burnt and we were past caring!

All in all we had fun we covered 26.2m and were out for 10.5hrs. We now know that we are not navigating too!

Best of all both of us can walk today!

Today as with Friday night/Saturday wa spent at the cavern ... V-rap is wonderful! Bless her!

Comments

fraggle said…
ooh another marathon under your belt :o)

well done
7:53 PM, May 01, 2006
Leon said…
[digs out compass and puts on navigation head]

OK - that's sorted now
:o)

Glad you guys are still in one piece....


....... and managed to get to the Cavern too!!!!

;o)
9:45 PM, May 01, 2006
b-z said…
doing well pix
9:58 AM, May 02, 2006
Evil Pixie said…
fanks benzie ... it has had less effect on my than my last walk which is good!
11:31 AM, May 02, 2006
beanz said…
well done pix - but this getting lost seems to be a habit - please leave navigation to someone else at TW!!!
6:51 PM, May 02, 2006
womble said…
Perhaps you need a training session on using the kit?

a) how to unplug garmin from charger
b) how to use garmin to cross-check with map
c) how to navigate if all technology fails....

A damn fine effort though!!!! 26 miles is 26 miles.
10:10 PM, May 02, 2006
Evil Pixie said…
hehe womble!
Leon did show me how to use it just not how to take it off the charger! Had 13hrs charge too! Bugger!
And my solution is leave all navigation to the people with expensive gadgets! So that'll be Leon and Cdk!
I'll be sticking to roads I know now!
Until the next bank holiday when it will be time for Duck to get us lost!
10:12 PM, May 02, 2006
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