I appear to have returned to running early in 2015 culminating in running the Coventry Half in a time of 1:52.
I continued with the running for a while (including a few parkruns – getting down to 23:54) until recurring pain in my right knee forced me back to walking.
In 2015, I purchased my kevwalks.co.uk domain name and pointed it at my blog.
I had commented, back in 2014, that it was difficult to fit in any walks when I was on shift. Then I came up with a brilliant idea – walk AT work.
The perimeter was a quarter of a mile so four laps would give me a mile.
Most shifts I could do twelve or sixteen laps. I was always available should any thing break out and this arrangement worked very well.
With the walking improving, I decided to have a stab at the LDWA hundred in 2016 down in Dorset. As I qualifier, I chose the familiar Rowbothams Round Rotherham which I completed in twelve hours and seven seconds.
With the qualifier under my belt, I applied for the hundred and was accepted on my Birthday (28th November).
Gear-wise, I swapped my phone for the Memory Map TX4, a ruggedised android handset. This unit was quite handy with mapping, camera etc but I did upgrade the imaging side of things with a new compact camera for Christmas.
I had been using an increasingly ancient Garmin Forerunner but my good lady wife bought me a shiny new GPS watch (Forerunner 230) for my birthday to which I could add a chest heart rate monitor.
I had been using endomondo to record all my excursions since 2010 (running back then) but was becoming a little disillusioned with the platform so with my new watch connecting directly to Garmin Connect, I began running that and endo in parallel.