SATURDAY 3rd & SUNDAY 4th June 2006
A glourious day, we now know where we're going!
STRIDING SUMMARY
Route: Winchester to Owslebury to Bishop's Waltham to Southwick to Portsmouth to Surbiton (by train) to Richmond to Wimbledon.
Distance: Somewhere between 65-70km
Nightstriders present: Aimee, Alice, Ben, Ian
Weather: Sunny and hot
Synopsis: A 30 hour training extravaganza with a much needed nap in the middle.
Kilometre:0.01km Time: 07.40am Location: Winchester Station Description: Apparently the bigger your bag...........the more stuff you can carry
Kilometre: 0.11km Time: 07.42am Location: Winchester Station Description: Believe it or not Ben carried Aimee for the first 2km
Kilometre: 0.4km Time: 07.51am Location: Winchester Cathedral Description: Do you ever get the feeling we have been here before?
Kilometre: 0.68km Time: 08.06am Location: River Itchen Description: Somethings make getting up at five in the morning worth it
Kilometre: 1.6km Time: 08.22am Location: St Catherine's Hill Description: Not even a 250 year old fallen Oak can stop the Nightstriders
Kilometre: 2.95km Time: 08.35am Location: Twyford Down Description: Ben looks on in disgust as a squirrel makes off with a bite of his jaffa cake
Kilometre: 5.1km Time: 09.09am Location: Hazeley Down Description: It was a hot day, luckily the wise cows of Winchester reminded us of the importance to keep hydrated
Kilometre: 5.2km Time:09.09am Location: Hazely Road Description: Six months into the nightstrider experience, new artistic ideas are thin on the ground
 6.3km Time: 09.22am Location: Mare Lane Description: Aimee and Ben audition for Tony Christie's new video
Kilometre: 8.1km Time: 09.52am Location: Lower Baybridge Description: Thats not what its says, look again
Kilometre: 8.4km Time: 09.57am Location: Baybridge Description: There must be someone walking around with just a sock on one foot!
Kilometre: 8.9km Time: 10.06am Location: Baybridge Lane Description:This dog was rather smelly but very effectionate, for no reason in particular we decided to call him Ben
Kilometre: 9.5km Time: 10.14am Location: Austin's Copse Description: Although Ben managed to carry Aimee in his bag, his ambitious attempt to give Ian a lift proved unsucessful
Kilometre: 10.2km Time: 10.26am Location: Roughay farm Description: Aimee reinacts the ancient wilderbeest charge
Kilometre: 10.21km Time: 10.28am Location: Roughay Farm Description: Unfortunately Red had beaten us to it and there was no ticket to Mexico burried at the base of the tree
Kilometre: 10.72km Time: 10.38am Location: White Hill Description: We really were on the path of a very careless walker
Kilometre: 10.95km Time: 10.43am Location: Upham Description: Aimee tries to convince another beast to decapitate itself with barb wire
Kilometre: 13.2km Time: 11.28am Location: Lower Upham Description: A 2 for the price of 1 new version of a popular favourite - Where's Wally?
Kilometre: 14.1km Time: 11.47am Location: Meadow View Description: Ian and Ben struggle through the 6 feet tall grass
Kilometre: 14.5km Time: 11.56am Location: Newtown Description: Aimee uses her cow hypnosis skills to convince a field full of cows to follow us
Kilometre: 14.6km Time: 12.00am Location: Newtown Description: Ian's entry for best nightstrider picture
Kilometre: 16km Time: 12.46pm Location: Bishop's Waltham Description: Ben secures essential water supplies from Hampshire's top eatery
Kilometre: 19.54km Time: 13.23pm Location: Swanmore Description: As the heat of the day hit us Ben calls on the spirit of the A-Team to push him forward
Kilometre: 20.72km Time: 13.37pm Location: The lakes Description: Luckily we had a plumb line to keep us on the straight and narow
Kilometre: 25.31km Time: 14.37pm Location: Kingsmead Description: Nightstriders laugh in the face of danger
Kilometre:25.38km Time:14.39pm Location: River Meon Description:Aimee 'volunteers' to go first
Kilometre:38.7km Time:17.27pm Location: Pitymoor Copice Description:Ben's misfortune of spilling his drink is enough to coax the camera out of Ian's pocket. Apologies for lack of pictures for previous 3 hours but it was hot and we walking a long way and nobody could think of anything amusing to do
Kilometre:39.2km Time:18.05pm Location: Widely Description:Even the old trusted shadow shot was met with little enthusiasm
Kilometre:39.5km Time:18.18pm Location: Outskirts of Portsmouth Description:How much we long to see this sign on the 23rd July
Kilometre:39.51km Time:18.19km Location: James Callagham Drive Description:Ben uses his stick to point out the Spinacker tower way in the distance
Kilometre:42.89km Time:19.11pm Location: An alternative world Description:We take a wrong turn and end up in the cartoon version of Portsmouth
Kilometre:43.21km Time:19.18pm Location: Portsmouth Creek Description:We smell the scent of the end plus a few other rather dodgy odours
Kilometre:48.3km Time:20.33pm Location: Spinacker Tower Description:After 12.5 hours of walking we reach our destination
Kilometre:48.3km Time:21.03pm Location: Train back to Surbiton Description:Under rule 7.2 subsection 8K all nightstriders must tape foam to foot
Kilometre:53.78km Time:10.22am (sunday) Location: Kingston Description: Dragon boat racing for those not comitted enough to be a nightstrider
Kilometre:58.68 Time:11.56am (sunday) Location: Richmond Description:A heron - we were quite tired on sunday
Kilometre:61.27km Time:12.56pm (sunday) Location: Richmond Hill Description:As ian left to mop up his burst blister, alice at a moments notice dropped what she was doing to bring some much needed energy to the team
Kilometre:63.72km Time:13.14pm (sunday) Location: Richmond Park Description:I'm not sure if thats what Mary Poppins had in mind
Kilometre:68.23km Time:14.07pm (sunday) Location: Wimbledon Description:And still the animals come
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