A short post about the Long Distance Walkers Association or LDWA.
According to the LDWA website …
The LDWA is an association of people with the common interest of walking long distances in rural, mountainous or moorland areas. We are also a national governing body for Rambling recognised by Sport England.
The LDWA, which I joined back in 2013, organises, amongst other things, two types of walk.
There is the more casual Group Walks which are free to take part in and are rather informal walks with similarly minded walkers.
Then there are the Challenge Walks.
Copy and pasting from the LDWA website (LINK) …
A Challenge Event can be either rural or urban, mostly on public footpaths and other public rights of way, frequently across open fields or on forestry tracks, riverside paths, hills and moorland, avoiding tarmac as much as possible.
The challenge is to the individual and is NOT a race. The distances include at least one option over 20 miles. Participants completing a walk of more than 50 miles qualify to enter the LDWA’s ‘flagship’ Event, The Hundred. Held over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend in a different part of the country each year, with a limit of 500 participants, the challenge is to walk a hundred miles in less than 48 hours.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d signed up for the LDWA Birmingham Canal Canter (LINK). This is a challenge event covering either eighteen or twenty six miles which must be completed within ten hours.
I have also signed up to a social walk, in February, starting near Coventry and covering some twenty miles (LINK)