Henry Coopers’ Walking Blog – First month of challenge 2016 completed

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Henry Cooper is walking 2016 km in the year 2016!

Henry is walking 2016 km in the year 2016, to raise some funds for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance. 

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Hello again.

Being an accountant, I suppose it is pretty obvious that I like figures/targets etc.  My lovely wife Catherine has said that my figure has improved quite nicely, after all of the walking that I have done over the last couple of years – I haven’t had the courage to explain to her that this wasn’t the sort of figures I had in mind!

I have got so into my walking (some might say obsessed!), that I needed a new challenge, hence the 2016 km in 2016 idea.  So, here come some of the figures that I was talking about:

  • 2016 km in a year is just over 38 km a week or just short of a marathon distance
  • I will therefore walk 48 marathon distances in the year
  • This should burn off about 130000 calories over the year!
  • I will walk (as the crow flies), roughly as far as Buckingham to Sicily

So – how am I doing so far?  I’m quite pleased to say that I have managed:

  • 343km
  • 8.1666 marathon distances
  • As far as Buckingham to Carlisle (as the crow flies)
  • 23000 calories
  • 17% of target distance
  • 2 sets of plasters for my little toes!

So – overall, a very pleasing start.  I’ll tell you about some of my exploits in another blog soon.

Bye for now.