WalkFit Alton

03/11/2024

Five years!!! Woooohoooo... just renewed my licence, so here's to the next five years! 🥰🥰🥰

16/05/2023

We'll be joining the gang from Dementia-friendly Alton at the Walk for Peace at Hogmoor Inclosure this Saturday.

Come and join us or spare a few pennies to help support the incredible work they do ❤️🙏❤️ x

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08/10/2022

What a beautiful day for Alton's Walking Festival Scavenger Hunt! Huge congratulations to the Seager Señorita's for claiming the highest number of alphabet items and for some pretty ingenious interpretations!

Giant "well dones" also to Anna's Anacondas as the most worthy opponents, only just being pipped to the post for the top spot! Stickers all round!!!

Thank you to Chimene for being our brilliant backmarker and I look forward to seeing some of your beautiful Found Art Creations ❤ x

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07/10/2022

Open to walkers too!! A generous cut off time makes this a great opportunity to challenge your walking pace and earn a MEDAL!! 😍

Don’t forget The Chawton Challenge takes place this Sunday! This is an amazing opportunity to run around the picturesque grounds of Chawton House.

🌳 Free 1k & 2k kids races.
🌳 5k & 10k distances
🌳 Entries on the day available
🌳 Refreshments
🌳 Family fun activities
🌳 Reduced entry tickets to Chawton House

Join us for some great cross-country and help raise funds for Cardiac Rehabs 25th Anniversary and a difibrillator for Chawton House.

07/10/2022

STICKERS!!! Getting ready for tomorrow's Alton's Walking Festival Family Scavenger Hunt!!

Still a few spaces if you fancy coming out for a free challenge with your little ones 🥰🥰🥰

04/10/2022

What a beautiful day for a Wellbeing Walk in the parklands of Chawton House. Day one of Alton's Walking Festival and we were one of four diverse walks taking place today.

We walked along fields and pathways, paused to reflect among the trees, shared poems, kicked leaves, were guided by sheep and talked with new friends ❤

I was blessed to have a wonderful group who wandered, shared and tolerated my need to cuddle every large tree 🌳

Thanks also to Kaylie who stepped in as our last minute back walker to ensure we were all super safe on our adventure 🙏

Have fun on your walks this week everyone!

29/09/2022

A race open to Walkers!

In the week that parkrun launches its parkwalk initiative to welcome and support walkers, Alton Runners is opening its Chawton House Challenge race to walkers too!

Next Sunday (9th October), Chawton House and Cardiac Rehab team up with Alton Runners to raise funds towards a vital defibrillator for Chawton House by hosting a beautiful trail race - and US WALKERS can join them and earn a MEDAL for our efforts!

The cut off for the 5k route is a generous 80 minutes, which is a good walking pace and even the 10k is within reach for the brisk walkers, allowing you 115 minutes to cross the finish line and claim your MEDAL (did I mention the medal?!)

Join me and some of the WalkFit gang in the beautiful surroundings of Chawton grounds.

The link to booking is below but there's also plenty of information in the flyer (I took piccies and attached them here... apologies if they're a bit wonky!) 🥰

https://altonrunners.activetrainingworld.com/tc-events/chawton-house-challenge/ #1605722223986-6431a9f3-19f5361f-c787e997-372b

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28/09/2022

Come and join me with your little ones... a nice and gentle walk with lots of things to find along the way 🥰

We hope you are looking forward to the Autumn Walking Festival 2022. We are excited to say we are fully booked on 15 of the walks but still have some places available on the remaining 9. Please go to https://bookwhen.com/altonwalkingfestival for the full list of walks available.

Todays featured walk, ideal for families is:

WALK 20 Holybourne Ponds Scavenger Walk
SATURDAY 8th OCTOBER - 1.00pm to 2:30 pm

Join George for a fun scavenger hunt for children/families or for those who are young at heart! We will be taking a leisurely stroll across the fields and paths from Anstey Park to Holybourne ponds and back again. Along the way, you will be challenged to find and collect things beginning with each letter of the alphabet - and there may be prizes involved! Will you choose to work as a family team or go solo and try to beat the rest?

A few rules apply:
• No bugs/insects or animals of any kind
• No picking flowers that aren’t growing in plentiful supplies
• All items must fit in the envelope provided!

Pace of walk: Gentle (a leisurely stroll with regular stops for little legs and interesting finds)
Terrain of walk: Easy (flat with country lanes, pavements, fields and footpaths. No stiles)

Walk suitability: All welcome. Single pushchair friendly.

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17/09/2022

Please join me in wishing our incredible WalkFitters, Dione and Karen a huge amount of fun, sandwiches, energy and headtorch battery life as they set out this morning to tackle the LDWA's Three Forests 54 mile challenge!

They have 23 hours to complete the beautiful route so will be hiking overnight, which is a challenge all of its own.

They are raising funds for Dementia-friendly Alton, which many of us know as an incredible local community resource. So, if you can afford to support them with a donation, you know every penny will be used to support folks living with Dementia and their families.

And if you cannot afford to right now, then that's fine too - perhaps you can send them oodles of energy and love to keep their spirits up and their legs moving late into the night 🥰

Help Dione Watson raise money to support Dementia Friendly Hampshire

06/09/2022

I will never get tired of this view. We are so so so lucky to have this on our doorstep and I feel blessed to watch the seasons change with fellow WalkFitters ❤