Workout
Although I walk a lot, I wouldn’t say that I was fit. I have almost zero upper body strength. I can walk and walk but anything that involves the core…
2021
Redemption ?
After my failure at the RRR on Saturday, I have found something a little different to do as a bit of a morale booster. Next Tuesday, on Cannock Chase, there…
RRR 2021 (the wrong shoes)
On Friday afternoon, after doing the weekly shop and picking up a few extras for the walk, I set off up the M42 towards Rotherham grabbing my blue shoes from…
Tapering for the RRR
I’ve just got back from a restful few days up north in and around Harrogate. With the fifty mile Rowbotham’s Round Rotherham event this coming Saturday, I have only been…
Babbs Mill
As I’m officially on a taper week before next Saturday’s fifty miler around Rotherham, my long walk of the week would only need to be ten miles. I started early…
The Need for Speed
A couple of early starts over the last two days. A dark four miler locally on Tuesday before a couple of dog walks on my return. Then seven miles this…
Still in the middle of nowhere
I’ve just uploaded this week’s mileages to my Route 66 site only to discover that I am still in the middle of nowhere, which is in New Mexico. Fifteen hundred…
Woodgate Valley
As another Saturdays rolls around, it’s that time of week known as parkrun. To get my training mileage of eighteen miles in, I planned on dropping the car in Digbeth,…
To the Pub (widescreen)
Tuesday and I was working from home which meant that I was all done by four o’clock. My other half had agreed to pick me up from The Griffin at…
Middle of Nowhere
At the beginning of the year, I started a virtual walk across America following the old Route 66 from Chicago to L.A. All my walks are logged via a webpage…