Walking in the Peak District

Yesterday I went walking in the Peak District with the Ramblers, I had a great ride up there there was hardly any traffic which meant I was just able to cruise along at the speed limit rather than match what ever speed the traffic happens to be doing which I prefer.

In fact the only traffic I saw was about 100 bikers from a club called the Blue Knights who I tagged along with for about a 1 mile but they were only doing about 65 so in the end I pasted them, they were stretched out for about 1.5 miles, there were bikers from Scotland, England, France and Germany. I later found out that all the Blue Knights currently serving or retired police - hence the Blue I guess.

I arrived far to early so I drove around for a bit then watched went to find the car park and watched some movies on my iPod while I waited for the others to turn up.

I love the landscape of the Peak District, I think it's my favourite National Park in terms of how it looks although I think I prefer Dartmoor for the actually walking it offers.

When the rest of the Ramblers had turned up, we set off on what was suppose to be a 7 mile walk but ended up being 10 miles - although we didn't actually get lost every often and only had to backtrack once so I'm not sure where those extra 3 miles came from. It was very hot, especially on some of the climbs and I think the heat slowed us all down a lot, I think we averaged 2 mph following what was large a flat track.

The ride home was quite as good, lots of traffic and stiffling under by jacket but still enjoyable.

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