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Slow and steady all the way(s)!

5 GoodGymers made their way to help their local community in Liverpool.

  • Beth Hoskins
  • Pauline Harrison
  • Jo G
  • Ealing runner
  • Liam
 
Monday, 3rd of May 2021
 
Led by Jo G

Slow Ways https://beta.slowways.org/Allroutes is a new national network that launched at the end of April to provide pleasant and accessible walking (or running, or wheelchair) routes, away from busy main roads where possible, linking all the major settlements in the UK. The routes have been mapped out in theory, but it's important that they are reviewed to ensure they actually work in practice. Enter GoodGym Liverpool. Five of us reviewed five routes between us:

Beth had a lovely sunny walk from West Kirby to Hoylake in Merseyside (weshoy)...

Pauline and Liam joined forces to walk from Runcorn to Frodsham (runfro) in typical bank holiday Monday weather...

Ben (currently on loan to GoodGym Ealing) did a round trip run to review both routes linking Ealing Broadway to Chiswisk (ealchi one and ealchi two - see how the route names work yet?)...

and Jo covered Walton-on-the-Hill to Liverpool (livwal), taking in Goodison Park - the home of Everton Football Club - and GoodGym Liverpool's favourite viewpoint across the waterfront to the Welsh mountains from the top of Everton Park.

We all uploaded reviews to the Slow Ways website and hope they'll be useful to others following (literally) in our footsteps.

There's sure to be a Slow Ways route somewhere near you - why not check it out? GoodGym Liverpool will also be organising a Slow Ways walk/run as a group training session locally in the near future, so keep a look out for that too.

Report written by Jo G


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Ema Quinn
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Wednesday May 5th, 2021 16:02

fab!!

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