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Brighton & Hove Nordic Walking Club | Ashdown Forest Nordic Walking Club | Multi-Activity Outdoor Trails Network
Summer 2008
Club membership is open, and free, to people, who successfully complete a full course with Nordic Walking for Health. Fortnightly weekday fitness walks in/close to the city and 6 weekly half-day weekend walks in Sussex countryside combined with a pub or café are offered. Motivational, fun & sociable!
Nordic Walking for Health is actively involved in the Brighton & Hove TAKEPART International Festival of Sport (a London Olympics 2012 Legacy project) and has promoted Nordic walking at the 2008 and 2009 Summer events.
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| Finishing a Course on the Seven Sisters and becoming new club members - Spring 2009 |
A bit of fun at the end of a Universities' Course - Summer 2009 |
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| Meeting the Mayor
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TAKEPART Festival 2008 |
Club members at the Nordic Walking Stall - TAKEPART Festival Launch 2008 |
Spring/Summer 2010
NEWS FLASH !!!
Booking is now open for taster sessions and new courses in the Ashdown Forest for people interested in forming a local Nordic Walking Group to be run by Global Adventurer in Forest Row.
Contact Nordic Walking for Health on 07813 524587 or peter@nordicwalkingforhealth.co.uk for detail.
Autumn 2009
Global Adventurer in Forest Row is teaming up with Nordic Walking for Health to establish the Ashdown Forest Nordic Walking Club. Taster sessions will be offered, if you want to have a go. Then, you can sign up for a full course and, once successfully completed, join the new club and enjoy Nordic walking in and around the forest on a regular basis in the company of others.
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| Learning downhill |
Spring 2009
Nordic Walking for Health is very ambitious in the long term about Nordic walking: let's make Brighton & Hove the first Nordic Walking City in the UK, so that visitors to our attractive city are more likely than not to see people Nordic walking along our seafront promenade and undercliff path or in one of our many parks!
If you or your organisation is interested in seeing the proposal outlined below become a reality, join the network of supporters by emailing peter@nordicwalkingforhealth.co.uk
A Multi-Activity Outdoor Trails Network would be a trail network of maintained, 'information-rich' paths and tracks, specifically designed for outdoor activities/sports that is purpose-made for people seeking to improve their health, fitness and well-being and/or sports performance.
Proposal Aim
To establish a network of outdoor trails fit for participating in physical activities that provide effective exercise.
Proposal Objectives
- To promote wider and sustained participation in effective outdoor exercise among the local, resident population
- To promote public access to the South Downs National Park, especially among underrepresented groups
- To make the local area even more attractive to visitors and tourists by offering a choice of outdoor exercise
- To enable specific 'sedentary' target groups to become more active through walking-based exercise
- To provide a 'stepping stone' for such people to move on to other effective forms of exercise
- To increase membership of related local sports clubs
- To facilitate rehabilitation of individuals recovering from illness or injury - or living with specific conditions responsive to such activity - through effective and safe exercise on 'fit for purpose' trail surfaces
- To resource major local employers with exercise programmes for managing stress and musculoskeletal problems among employees
- To provide limited local employment opportunities
- To increase public awareness of local and global environmental issues.
Key Features
- Open access - accessible to all
- Safe for all
- Stop-free - no need to stop for directions to allow for timed exercise
- Professionally planned - 'fit for purpose'
- Way-marked and informing - signs and notices with maps, trail descriptions, health & fitness guidance and information about the locality, e.g. flora & fauna, local businesses, all linked to web and paper-based sources
- Easy to read signposting - international signage to facilitate quick & easy understanding of the nature of the trail, e.g. distance, terrain, time, level of difficulty
- Vandal-proof signs - robust & durable.
The idea is based on the inspiring model and concept of Nordic Sports Fitness Parks™.
These are well-established, for example, in Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic.
Relevant activities and sports include:
- Nordic Walking, Running & Blading
- Natural Walking
- Roller Blading & Skike
- Cross-country Running
- Cycling & Mountain Biking
- Community Rehabilitation following illness and injury.
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