Week commencing 26th February, 2017

Nordic Walking week commencing 27th February, 2017

Hi Nordic Walkers,

Well done to all those walkers who braved the weather on Thursday.  Rachel was a star leading the group while I was in Ireland.  Also thanks always to Gordon for covering classes on Tuesday for me and Denise and Sheelagh for helping out too.  I’m so lucky to have you all fill in when needed.

NORDIC SNIPPING!
Tomorrow at Noon we are meeting at the Hub in Ampthill with our gardening gloves and secateurs/shears to improve some of our paths that have become overgrown with thorny bits etc. If you’d like to join us, please come along!  Cuppa for all volunteers at the end!

Our New Walk is starting this Wednesday and as many Gentle Plus and Moderate Walkers have shown interest, we will open this up to both paces.  This is a trial class that will run for four weeks to see if there is enough interest. Therefore this will be a Booking Class so please text or email me if you wish to attend.  Yipee! This class is £5.

Our Gentle Plus classes are growing and the paces in this group have split into three sections which makes it harder to manage for me and my walk leaders, so this week we will try the faster Gentle Plus Walkers in the Moderate class.  All this means is that a lot of you have improved your fitness  levels and your pace has increased to spread the group out.  This is a good thing!  But Don’t panic, with my trusty whistle, no one will be left behind!

NORDIC WALKING CLASS COSTS:

All evening classes – £5
Moderate & Gentle Plus – £5 or £4 if you have your own Poles
Moderate Plus & Gentle – £5
Long Distance and Pop Up walks costs dependent on Distance.
Private Sessions: £12.50

SPEED GRADING KEY:

1 = Moderate Plus (for the faster Nordic Walker, optional Hill running)

2 = Moderate (yet challenging)

3 = Gentle Plus (smidge slower than Moderate yet invigorating)

4 = Gentle (marginally slower than G+ class but energizing)

5 = HIT Nordic (Nothing but Hills. Tough and exhilarating!)

*BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR ALL CLASSES MARKED BOLD BY 8PM THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WALK. THANKS.

THIS WEEK’S WALKS:

Monday 10am – Cranfield, Court Road, meeting in the Village Hall Car Park (2) & (3)
Tuesday 8:45am – Ampthill Park, West Car Park (1)* 
Tuesday 9am – Ampthill Park, West Car Park (4)*
Tuesday 10am – Ampthill Park, West car park (2) & (3)
Wednesday 12pm – Rowney Warrant, Sandy Lane, off the A600 near Shefford (2) & (3) – £5*
Thursday 10am – The Bedford Golf Club, Carnoustie Drive, Great Denham River Walk (2) & (3) Paws
Saturday 9am – Ampthill Park, West Car Park (4)*
Saturday 9:15am – Ampthill Park, West Car Park (1)*

Saturday 10am – Ampthill Park, West Car Park (& (3)

UPCOMING CHARITY WALKS

PARKINSON’S UK CHARITY WALK 2.5 & 5 mile – May 21st
You can register now for this walk as I just did it using the link below.  Put Walk2Fitness as your Team when filling it out. If you are getting sponsors for this walk but not sure how much,  just leave that section blank.  We can bring any money raised to the event to hand in on the day.
https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/content/walk-parkinsons-forest-marston-vale

FIVE PUB WALK DETAILS – 11.5 miles – 14th May
Details of this walk can be found here:http://www.overdaycentre.co.uk/events
Register on the link below for this walk. This is an open walking event for anyone, so friends and family are welcome: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_9afXtZgRRHR21hMTVGQXJsb3M/view.

For all the latest info go to www.walk2fitness.co.uk

Many thanks,
Elaine