Midday Mooch
A few weeks back I was booking a training course. The company we booked with, up the road from us in Wimborne, were doing something that caught my eye: the midday mile.
They mentioned a range of benefits – reducing stress, anxiety and fatigue, improving mood, promoting good mental health and wellbeing. I often spend the majority of my lunchbreak walking anyway, but there are those in the team who don’t. So, mainly to wind them up, I suggested that we adopt the midday mile.
I was expecting the idea to get shot down in fairly short order – but to my surprise there was some enthusiasm. We get an hour’s lunchbreak so we’re able to cover something like 3 miles every time we go out, and in total so far we’ve meandered nearly 30 miles around Wimborne and its surrounds. We've found places that we didn't know existed, and we're still discovering new footpaths and new routes. There's even some kind of rating system that revolves around how good the weather is and how many bridges we go across, but no-one seems to know the exact details.
And because we are who we are, the Freshleaf Midday Mile/Meander/Mooch now has its own website, currently just mapping, but soon to have statistics, a photo gallery and more.
