Get On, Clip In, Fall Off

Can I go now, please?

One of the problems with deciding to embark on some lengthy project like, say, walking 2000km is that once you've finally decided to do it you want to start now. Of course, it's completely impractical to do so - life being what it is today you can't just walk out of your front door and leave everything behind to do something like this - but still, sometimes it's tempting.

Anyway, there's still lots of planning to be done, and I need to get myself into slightly better shape in order to experience as little pain as possible during the first few weeks as my legs adapt to the pounding. I guess I should keep telling myself this.

However, I do now have the route planned out at 1:50000 scale courtesy of the excellent Tracklogs digital mapping software, with which I've been able to divide the distance into 50 stages. Most of these stages are a day long, but there are a few long-distance ones such as the crossing of Exmoor and the northern Highlands which will either be enormously long days or broken into more than one day's walking.

Until I can do any of that, though, I need to survive another three months of seriously itchy feet.