After the euphoria of the Thames Path Challenge and my first RRR, I neglected my blogging until picking it back up in October of 2014.
In the interim, both Sue (my other half) and I changed jobs.
Firstly, I moved to work at a data centre in Redditch which was a bit too far away to walk to and from work every day (although I did walk home a few times). I was also working twelve hour shift both days and nights leaving me with many days off.
Sue moved to Moseley, in Birmingham, which was about ten miles from home – a route that I walked many times.
Event-wise, I walked the Birmingham Canal Canter (26 miles) and the Cotswold Challenge (25 miles) and a return to Rotherham (50 miles).
Training walks included the aforementioned Redditch to Home and all fifteen hills of The Malverns.
A lot of my walks where either to/from Moseley or I’d park up in Knowle or Balsall Common for a canalside walk on the way to/from work.
For a change of scenery, I was lucky to be sent on a course from work down to the South coast in the town of Emsworth. My evening, post-course, walks took me to, among other places, Hayling Island and Thorney Island (which isn’t a real island anymore).
Reading back through my blogs of late 2014, I was bemoaning the lack of time during my early shifts for any proper walks but as the shift pattern was something like four earlies, four off, three earlies, three nights, five off there was plenty of free days.