Best wishes to GARYQQQ

MAXALLY

He will also be tweeting his walk.

@GaryLQ

MAXALLY

Our favorite walking milkman from the forum is off on his hikes again. He is doing a 630 mile coastal walk this time around.

I hope some of the regs, or even newbies, can use this thread to send him messages of luck/encouragement etc.

His blog is here....

The walking milkman is back

macapaca

Is it sponsored for charity? 

A link to donate?

Glenelg

Good luck Gary.  A mere dawdle compared to LEJOG!!!

unknown_username

Good luck Gary. Let me know when you're passing through Plymouth and I'll have a chiropodist on stand-by.

SoLack

Good luck Gary have an eggsellent time

MP33

Turning pts into 1k ( pretty soon ) and walking 600 miles. 

You don,t do things by halfs - GL ( You passing through Bpool ) 

Ps - Good luck with the weather

FLASHJONNY

good luck gary

waller02

Good luck Gary

FCHD

The South West Coast Path is a very popular challenge, I know of several people who are partway through it - most do it in weekend chunks, and not necessarily in any straight-forward order. I've only done a bit of it (and ran a section of a few miles going west from Westward Ho!, it is bloomin' hard work.

Good luck Gary with the venture.

Slykllist

Good luck Gary, should be a great experience

DTWBANDIT

   Good Luck Gary

david666

Best of luck gary, hope you 'run good'

DivsDreams

GOOD LUCK GARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GaryQQQ

Thanks very much to Maxally for starting this and all who have posted, your words of encouragement and support are very much appreciated.

Those of you following my £0 to £1,000 challenge may have been wondering why volume has been low for the last 3 or 4 months. Well now you know; I've been in training for this.

I had a tough first day yesterday, successfully covering around 30 hilly miles despite storm force winds and heavy rain, my blog will be updated shortly. I've decided to take a rest day today and will continue walking on Tuesday.

Blog entry; http://garyswcoastpath.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/day-1-september-15th-2013-south-haven.html

This time it's a leisure walk, not a charity event like the End-to-End was. However if anybody feels the urge to make a donation my Just Giving walking page is still live, a Google search for 'Just Giving Thewalkingmilkman' will find it for you, proceeds go to MacMillan Cancer Support.

Tikay10

A wonderful thing to do - well done Gary, & good luck with the "walk". Some walk, that.....

Rich_Poor

Well a nice leisurely Sunday stroll takes a lot of beating!!!

Enjoy your well earned rest today

Hope the weather is kind and you have lots or run good (walk good) :-)

Good luck.

tim452

coastal walking is probably the hardest as there are no straight and very few flat stretches which on occasions make the progress seem slow, so all the very best of luck and i'm sure you've got a good poker book for the rest periods also i hope that the september weather is kind to you. tim

tim452

coastal walking is probably the hardest as there are no straight and very few flat stretches which on occasions make the progress seem slow, so all the very best of luck and i'm sure you've got a good poker book for the rest periods also i hope that the september weather is kind to you. tim

unknown_username

Best of Luck Gary

cenachav

Good luck with the stroll

harding10

He must be walking through my farm at some point later today or first thing tomorrow. Unfortunately the coast path isn't visible from where I'm working today or I'd pop out and say hello.

MAXALLY

Many happy returns today young man

Cheers.

harding10

Give that man a medal! Walking round Portland this afternoon in those storms must have been miserable.

I've always thought someone should blow up the end of Chesil beach and turn Portland into the English Alcatraz. Nobody would ever swim to escape with those tides.

harding10

The first picture on day 3 taken of the Fleet lagoon and Abbotsbury swannery is taken from a couple of hundred yards west of our hill fields. I did go up and try to meet Mr Q on his way through but was probably on the hill a bit too early, several walkers going east but couldn't see any going west.

HITMAN_RV

GL Gary!!

Wow, another Great Achievment this..... Ignore the Blisters, Tuff it Out!!

I will check you Blogs !

unknown_username

All the best fella.

"break a leg"!!! Well, maybe not, but you know what i mean.......

unknown_username

have a safe journey Gary gl m8

GaryQQQ

Cheers guys, thanks very much. I'm now back in Exmouth with the first leg of my journey completed, a tough yet spectacular 120 mile route. Total ascents/descents in those 5 days came to 7,600 metres according to my GPS tracker, that's the equivalent of going up and down Ben Nevis 5 times from sea level.

That's a great part of the world you live in harding10, Abbotsbury is an unspoilt gem.

harding10

It's not a bad spot Gary. I'm about a mile east of Abbotsbury, and just to the north of the coast path. Although I can't see the actual village from here I've looked out at St Catherine's Chapel on it's hill all my life and never get tired of that view.

Looks as though you went along the beach west of Abbotsbury, but the view from the top of Abbotsbury hill looking back to the east over the chapel, the Fleet and Chesil beach across to Portland is stunning. Best place to view Portland is always from a distance.

GaryQQQ

In Response to Re: Best wishes to GARYQQQ:

It's not a bad spot Gary. I'm about a mile east of Abbotsbury, and just to the north of the coast path. Although I can't see the actual village from here I've looked out at St Catherine's Chapel on it's hill all my life and never get tired of that view. Looks as though you went along the beach west of Abbotsbury, but the view from the top of Abbotsbury hill looking back to the east over the chapel, the Fleet and Chesil beach across to Portland is stunning. Best place to view Portland is always from a distance.
Posted by harding10

I know what you mean about Portland lol, it's still a fascinating place none-the-less.

On the way back to Weymouth, where we were staying, we caught the magnificent views across Chesil Beach and Portland from the road to the east of Abbotsbury. St. Catherines Chapel is a fine sight indeed being in such a prominent location.