Cossall Walk

Yesterday we embarked on a smaller walk - Walk 3 in Broxtowe Borough Council. The walk is based around Cossall, Awsworth and the disused Nottingham Canal. I picked a shorter walk this week as I knew a few people were on holiday and would be gutted to miss a longer walk in Derbyshire.

However I decided to run to the starting point to meet the other walkers there to give myself a mini practice for the Isle of Wight Challenge in August where I will be running and walking half the Island. So I did the 5km to the starting point in a steady 22 minutes 53 seconds, a quick change into some different walking clothes then off we went.

 

We thought we were following the correct route, we had followed the instructions "correctly" and the next little path wasn't exactly easy to walk along.  Having just re-read the route and looked on the map we actually did follow it correctly through the bushes but we then missed the turning we needed thanks to so much foliage covering the stile we needed.

The bit of grey right in the middle is Lee making his way out.

 

I can't say it was easy walking through that, I think a good set of pruners were needed, but we managed it eventually with only a few branches swinging back into the person behinds face. Having just looked back at the route this was the correct route! However we went wrong just after this as the buses baffled us and the foliage was covering the stile we required.

It only took us a few minutes to get back on track knowing the local area. So a quick walk up Awsworth Lane and we were on the correct route again. It's not getting lost it's taking a detour, something we manage to do most walks.

The route back was really easy to follow with some really nice views over the local area. Cossall Church looked lovely as we approached it. We then bumped into Will.i.am and Sir Tom Jones thanks to Cossall Scarecrows it was a slightly surreal moment on the walk. It wasn't long until we had re-joined the Canal and were heading back to the cars. Once again it had been a really enjoyable walk with great company and some randomness thrown in too. For more photos visit my Instagram account.

Overall the walk took us 2 hours 42 minutes and was 10.25km long. That takes the years total up to 116km (72 miles). It's only just the start of June so there's time yet to reach 200 miles by the end of the year especially if I drop in Rutland Water with a huge 26 miles one weekend.

I'm doing this for Cancer Research UK so hopefully walking can help save lives too please visit - www.justgiving.com/adamfretwellpt