April 2026 Coast to Coast prep

 I've had a frustrating year so far with regardsto walking / hiking due to the tendonitis injury on my right foot. I came back from the last walk with Rowan and Ben with a sore heel and outside of foot. I mad an appointment with a doctor in Belper (NHS doc but this was paid treatment), and for the last few months I have been doing daily stretches and wearing insoles with a wedge on the outside right of my right foot. It is still painful but I have started doing some training walks to get 'match fit'. I have the option of a steroid injection, and I nee to make a decision before 5th May.

Monday 6th April Shining Cliff woods / Cromford canal

Parked at Ambergate and followed normal route anti-clockwise.

6 miles . 2 hours 40 minutes. Ascent 637ft

Friday 10th April Shipley Park 

Down Bell lane and loop back round past the visitor centre

5 miles. 1 hour 40 minutes. Ascent 321ft

Saturday 11th April Horsley Castle

Normal route - Smalley -Woodside - Horsley - Coxbench - Horsley Castle - Brackley Gate - Woodside - Smalley.

7 Miles. 2 Hours 22 minutes. Ascent 808ft.

Sunday 12th April. Shipley Park

6 miles. 2hours 12 minutes. Ascent 525 ft

Tuesday 14th April. Woodside - Shipley Park

10 Miles. 3hours 45 mins. Ascent 758 ft

Wednesday April 15. Shipley Park

With Jess.

4.5 miles. 1 hour 42 mins. Ascent 312

Thursday 16th April Shining Cliff Woods Crich

9.7 Miles. 4 Hours 12 minutes. Ascent 1478 ft.

Saturday 18th April Stainsby common - Shipley Park

6.7 miles. 2hour 26 mins. Ascent 460 ft.

Tuesday 21st April Horsley Castle - Shipley Park

10.2 Miles. 3 Hours 51 mins. Ascent 1089 ft

Friday 24th April Sawley Loop with Rowan

7.3 miles. 2 hours 32 mins. Ascent 131 ft.

28th April Chatsworth Birchen Edge Gibbet Moor

11.4 miles. 4hour 44 mins. Ascent 1506 ft.

29th April Shipley Park

8 Miles. 2 Hour 48 mins. Ascent 640 ft

Steve taken ill - having to take some days out of prep to travel to Yeovil Hospital,

Sunday 3rd May Horsley Castle - Shipley Park

8.8 miles. 3hours 33 mins. ascent 829 ft.

Monday 4th May Kedleston 

3.1 miles. 1 Hour 14 mins. Ascent 217 ft

Tuesday 5th May . steroid injection - followed by 2 zero days

May 8th Shipley Park

5 miles 315ft elevation 1 Hour 46 Minutes

May 9th Woodside - Shipley Park

8.7 Miles. 3Hours 25 Minutes 695 ft Ascent

May 12th Mam Tor - Rushup Edge - South Head - Brown Knoll - Rushup Edge

10.3 Miles.4hours 20 Mins. Ascent 1719ft

May 13th Shipley Park

4.68 Miles. 1 Hour 27 Mins Ascent 328 ft

May 14th. Sawley - Trent Lock

3 Miles . 1 Hour 4 mins Ascent 67ft

May 15th Shipley Park

3.52 Miles . 1hour 10 Mins Ascent 264 ft

May 15th Sawley  - Trent Lock - River Trent

7.7 Miles. "hour 53 Mins. Ascent 90 ft