A walk from Indooroopilly to The Gap

Last Sunday, I decided to walk to church from home. According to the route Google Maps suggested, it would take about 2 hours 27 minutes to cover the 11.3km from Indooroopilly to The Gap, so I left home at 6am, expecting to reach church at 8:30am.

Would you believe it, I made it to church at 8:05am! Either I walk faster than I realise, or the route was shorter than Google Maps estimated (I'm going for the latter). A few years ago, I could have run that distance quite easily, but not anymore. Walking, however, is a totally different story. I'm not sure if it's just me, but walking the 11.3km ended up really refreshing! I even brought a 400ml waterbottle with me which I didn't need at all during the trip! Weird hey. It was a nice time in the day to walk though, with the sun out but not too hot yet.

And because I could, I took geotagged photos with my n82 along the way, which I imported onto Google Maps. The cool is that it shows you the route I took too. Have a look (click on the blue markers to display the photo I took at that point).


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The only cons of the long walk was my ending up quite tired later in the day, and aches on the next day. But I'm considering doing this more regularly. It's a pretty simple way to exercise. Having said that, if I hadn't had my mp3 player along the way, I would have gotten pretty bored walking for 2 hours. On my playlist that Sunday was:

• Hillsong United - My best friend
• A sermon by Rev David Jones
• A sermon by Pastor John Piper

And then I got to hear another sermon by my minister, Chris Perona :p Which, may I add, was excellent, and 100% definitely worth listening to. It was on the bible and slavery, based on Ephesians 6:5-9. Visit here to download the sermon as an mp3 or a mov file.