Walking with friends
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2013
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding explores the beautiful Longdendale Trail in Derbyshire, joining long -term friends, Tracey Standring and Christine Valentine. They explain the vital role walking has played in their lives, cementing their friendship and keeping them sane and healthy. They've been walking together for over a year now and they explore new places each week. Neither are keen or particularly competent map readers and Clare tries to convert them with her own expertise, although with a gale blowing along the valley, it's not all that easy. Producer Lucy Lunt.
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| 0:39.7 | This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Balding with another edition of ramblings. |
| 0:47.6 | For this series of ramblings, we are walking for self-improvement. So today I have come to Derbyshire, |
| 0:53.8 | to the edge of the Peak District, |
| 0:55.3 | a village called Hadfield |
| 0:56.5 | and I'm going to be walking |
| 0:57.9 | with Tracy Sandring |
| 0:59.4 | and Christine Valentine |
| 1:00.6 | who are lifelong friends |
| 1:03.4 | but even more friendly now |
| 1:05.7 | because of walking |
| 1:06.5 | because I guess you walk for friendship |
| 1:09.3 | and you walk for happiness. |
| 1:11.6 | Yes we do. |
| 1:12.9 | We started walking just over a year ago and we just really enjoy it now |
| 1:17.5 | and we enjoy the benefits we get from it, which obviously it does improve fitness. |
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