{"id":1209,"date":"2020-07-19T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2020-07-19T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:54:00","slug":"knowing-our-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/07\/19\/knowing-our-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing our limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 95 of the End to End in 2019 continued along the Great Glen Way. The weather was better than the day before, the breakfast and sandwiches excellent. The route was lovely: a disused railway line for some of the way which was fairly easy going.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-747\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1901-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1901-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1901-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1901-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1901-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some folks express surprise when I say I&#8217;ve walked LEJOG. After all, carrying several surplus stones as I do, I don&#8217;t look the epitome of fitness. Maybe they imagine it&#8217;s some kind of ultra event for the super fit. I&#8217;d say, that depends on how you do it. But this section was no more difficult that a walk on the Longdendale Trail which also includes a disused railway line.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-748\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1939-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1939-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1939-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1939-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1939-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bridge of Oich is a place of three bridges, one of which, in the care of Historic Scotland, has a notice that says &#8216;Only 50 people allowed on the bridge at one time&#8217;. Perhaps it does get busy here and days of 50 people piling on the bridge in some sort of record attempt may have sometimes occurred. But not today. There were few people about and we were 48 short of the limit. I wonder if there was ever a party on the Bridge of Oich?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in 2020 in Longdendale I&#8217;m trying to get back up to walking fitness after my unscheduled stay in hospital now over a week ago. It&#8217;s easy to do the odd mile or two from our front, or back, door, and it&#8217;s quite easy to do anything up to 9 or 10 miles actually, but I&#8217;m a bit out of practice. So I set off for a morning walk , slowly. With lots of butterflies in the valley at the moment, that was fine as I could note them as I went along. It&#8217;s another 6 days before I&#8217;m allowed back into general circulation.<\/p>\n<p>This year has been a year of numbers: those who have caught the virus, those who have died, days in quarantine, days in ICU, metres of social distance, number of people in your bubble or your shop. Our world has certainly got smaller and we are in physical contact with far fewer people on a regular basis. Tomorrow is our 29th Wedding Anniversary: I am thankful.<\/p>\n<p>From last year&#8217;s blog,the remembered bible from Psalm 139<br \/>\n<i>You see me, whether I am working or resting and you know everything I do.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Even before I speak, you already know what I will say.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You have me in your eye,<br \/>\nyou hold me by the hand,<br \/>\nyou guide me through these steps,<br \/>\nyou nurture me in body and mind:<br \/>\nYou know my limits,<br \/>\nthe way my human frailty works.<br \/>\nKeep me mindful, caring and supportive,<br \/>\nthat others I meet may reach theirs<br \/>\nand together we can thrive.<br \/>\nJAL: 19.07.2020 in Longdendale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 95 of the End to End in 2019 continued along the Great Glen Way. The weather was better than the day before, the breakfast and sandwiches excellent. The route was lovely: a disused railway line for some of the way which was fairly easy going. Some folks express surprise when I say I&#8217;ve walked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/07\/19\/knowing-our-limits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knowing our limits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms","category-remembered-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}