Walking
Sarnia Walking Club hold events throughout the year for men and women.
The annual church-to-church competition, where competitors have to touch each parish church in a 19.4 mile race is a special Guernsey event attracting world class competitors. This race has been walked for well over 70 years, although if you believe the Guppy cartoons, its more like 7,000 years.
Guernsey competitors also compete in the Commonwealth Games.
Read more about this topic: Sport In Guernsey
Famous quotes containing the word walking:
“And early in the morning he came walking toward them on the sea.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 14:25.
“The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand:
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
“If this were only cleared away,”
They said, “it would be grand!”
“If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year,
Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
“That they could get it clear?”
“I doubt it,” said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)