Last Wednesday most of our teams were able to take the day off work and headed down/up/across towards the Test Valley for the first of our Training Walks.

After a slight delay arranging cars at either end of the route, we left St Mary Bourne only 20 minutes behind schedule at 10:20. We did better than the GPS (which had some issues before we'd even got a sweat on) so we weren't able to keep tabs on exactly how far we covered, but according to the maps it should have been around 13 miles. Despite the route being way-marked, there were a few times when we weren't quite sure which unmarked track to follow!

We were accompanied on the day by Baxter, the lovable lab. He kept us all on track, although he's not used to such long walks, in fact his longest walk up until this point was about a quarter of a mile. He kept going 'til the end (luckily) even though he had no idea where we were going or how long it would take (he wasn't alone on that one!).

The weather turn out nice (again!) and we got to see some great North Hampshire country-side along the way. We arrived in Stockbridge spot on 5 hours for a well earned drink! All in all, better even than a day at our office!

See how we got on right here: