From the NWUK Community
By Nordic Walking New Forest at
It was great to get out before breakfast every morning on our recent trip to Costa Adeje in Tenerife! It’s a popular time for exercise along the promenade and I was interested to see so many Nordic walkers out! Of course there were all sorts of styles – mainly people swinging from the elbow instead
By Nordic Walking Watford at
ALL EXERCISE HABITS ARE GOOD, RIGHT? Making exercise a regular part of your routine or “habit” is key to being successful in the pursuit of fitness. And it takes time for something to become a habit – that action or behaviour that we do automatically and regularly, without consciously thinking about doing it. Your brain
By Nordic Walking Watford at
NEW YEAR WALK PROGRAMME I am currently working on putting together our WALK PROGRAMME for the first few weeks of January 2022, as well as some of our key dates throughout the year. As always we will have some fabulous special events, challenges, and weekends away coming up throughout the year so do watch
By Nordic Walking Watford at
STATS FOR OCTOBER October has been full of glorious Autumn days – crunching through leaves on our woodland walks, it kicked off with ouR fabulous CHESS VALLEY CHALLENGE and finished with some spooky goings-on in the East Lane Cemetary We had a total of 91 of you enjoying walks with us throughout OCTOBER and 6
By Nordic Walking New Forest at
We had a great 9 mile walk along the Itchen Way yesterday! The weather couldn’t have been better – warm and sunny – a half way stop for Steve’s home made sausage rolls and a superb lunch afterwards at the Wykeham Arms in Winchester! We did have some laughs along the way and all managed
By Nordic Walking Watford at
Walking together with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone the light
By Nordic Walking Watford at
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives Brene Brown, a well-known social scientist and research professor at the University of Houston, has spent the last two decades studying vulnerability, shame, courage and empathy. She tells a story about a village where the women would regularly go down to the river to wash their
By Nordic Walking Watford at
WALK 1000 MILES Our #walk1000miles team are still going strong and our accumulative total up to the end of October now stands at…. 31,943 MILES That is the equivalent of 1,219 marathons! The marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896. The distance did not become standardized until 1921. More than 800
By Nordic Walking New Forest at
A beautiful Workout Walk from Whitefield Moor today – the sun shone, we had a lovely breeze and got a good workout on the hills!
By Nordic Walking Watford at
By Nordic Walking New Forest at
So Team Test completed the last leg on Friday – all 18.5 miles – what an achievement – 44 miles ++ in total! They started the walk with some unfortunately heavy showers – luckily everyone had the right gear – and once they’d dried off in the wind, it was a lovely day! The most
By Janneke Gorzeman at
Autumn has definitely started with rain, wind and cooler temperatures, this also brings back the mud. Be prepared for this, it might be slippery during the walk. But we still can have sunny weather, so please carry a small backpack or bum bag and bring some water. Photos from recent walks: on top of Musden Low,