Sutton parkrun – take two

Saturday morning so how about a parkrun ? My training schedule says twelve miles for today but a parkrun is only 3.1. A bit of maths reveals that I’ll have to walk a further nine miles at some point today. At 06:13, I left the car and proceeded to Sutton Park for a circuit of…

Planning

With the Bullock Smithy pencilled in for September and a few other events, including Charnwood, Corvedale and the Across Wales walk also on the agenda, I thought that it must be time to draw up some sort of training plan. Adapting a plan that I’ve used before I’ve got all my walks sorted from now…

Jan 30 – Blogging

Not totally happy with the blogging platform that I’ve used for years (on and off) I have been experimenting with a few alternatives. One of the most popular is WordPress but when using the free, bundled hosting, certain things don’t work, namely my endomondo totals which I want to be displayed on the top of…

Jan 29 – Where's the snow ?

The day started with the usual bus ride to Saltley and a two mile walk along the canal into work. Listening to the weather at lunchtime I was warned of impending snow – that’d make a nice walk home ! At around 16:30 I dressed ready for the anticipated snowstorm, stepped outside and was instantly…