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The Capital Ring: not just a walk in the park

January 20th, 2008
Posted by kristy in: uk

The Capital Ring is a strategic walking circuit through London’s parks and wilderness and on Saturday Stacey and I ventured out to see what it’s all about!

The walk is around 125km long and divided into manageable chunks. We checked out Walk 6 from Wimbledon Park to Richmond, even passing the spot where Elisabeth Beresford sat to write The Wombles of Wimbledon Common. Impressive huh? Not really. I’ve no idea who EB or The Wombles are, which led Stacey to proclaim loudly: “Kristy, where’s your kid brain?!”

The walk was very pleasant, despite the mud. Aaah, the mud. While locals strode by in their sensible wellingtons, I pussyfooted about in sneakers. I wanted something comfortable since we were walking more than 11kms but forgot that my sneakers have a maze of air holes on the underside to give more bounce or something. When I got home it was a maze not of air but of mud, grass and stones that took forever to remove (with the aid of kebab skewers).

It’s a good thing that all that fresh air and scenery was worth the effort!

5 comments

#1 Michelle January 20th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

Sounds like a great healthy Saturday afternoon activity! I’m not sure I had heard of The Wombles either until someone was talking to me about Wimbledon Common. Btw, I wonder what makes a walking circuit ‘strategic’ Mr Wikipedia?!

KJ, I notice that you and I both chose to update the blogs while the boys were away. We must have felt a sense of responsibility!

#2 kj January 21st, 2008 at 9:43 am

Definitely a sense of responsibility! There’d be trouble if he came home and there’d been no updates!

I think it the word ‘strategic’ could probably be replaced with ‘official’ or something… There are markers all along the route, and books on it etc.

I just looked up askoxford and strategic can refer to a weapon for use against industrial areas… maybe the Ring is planned to keep industrial development at bay? Too much of a stretch?

#3 Stac January 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm

Or perhaps it was strategically designed (it does go through most of London’s borough and green spaces – that must have taken some strategy).

#4 Shelley January 26th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

Perhaps you could try the greenwich part of the circut? I hear there are some roman ruins there…

#5 shelley January 26th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

Sorry about the spelling error… i blame the background distractions. G and J are playing slaps???