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Time is for challenges and challengers. Enjoy the countryside. Take a break and enjoy it
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Well said !!
Especially on a circuitous route you already know where you'll end up (ie where you started) - but on any walk its the walk itself which is the destination not the end point. The entire walk is there to be enjoyed.
If you walk too quickly, chances are you'll miss so much. Sometimes when I'm out I'll try to track an animal by reading the land, where it placed its feet, moved grasses, snapped twigs, scraped the ground. Other times I'll sit perfectly still and watch the wildlife around me - cheeky squirrels and curious bog owls.
Thats why I rarely walk with folk who charge off like its a selection test for the Royal Marines !! They miss so much, they may as well walk around a city