The new edition of Country Walking – official magazine of #walk1000miles – has plans for you. Big plans! (On sale from 30 Jan)
Say yes to the world of opportunities to make memories, experience wonder and feel fulfilment walking offers you this year. If not you, who? If not now, when?
What people who sit and wait for life to impress them don’t understand is that you have to meet it half-way. Getting outside the well-worn grooves of your life – even a little bit – is when new things happen and days take courses fresh and memorable. But it’s hard to exit a groove, because there’s a big part of our brain that loves predictability and hates risk – likes knowing what we’re going to get from any outlay of time and effort; is strongly opposed to being eaten by sabre-toothed tigers. Needless to say most of the risks are outdated or overstated, most of the rewards undervalued or unimagined.
Most of us need a nudge.
Which is where the new decade and this new edition of County Walking come in. 2020 is the perfect chance to begin afresh – to start walking in the direction of a life more as you’d like it to be, rather than as past experience directs it. And our proposals for new walking projects are here to help you along the way. Some are modest, others ambitious, all promise to be memorable – and each could be the start of something that helps define a brilliant new decade spent more alive to the incredible, the beautiful and the touching all around us. There’s nothing better than walking at doing that. And there’s no better time to start. Make it your mission!
