Today, I am experiencing an IVAN FACTOR of 1. Tomorrow it may reach 2 with the addition of some tiredness following the first of 3 night shifts. I received my December issue of Strider (the journal of the LDWA) in which I spotted news of a new walk around Wolverhampton. It’s called The Wolverhampton Ring…

Not a lot happening on the walking front apart from a circuitous 4 miler at work. GPS all over the shop ! Weekly total = 55 miles. I continued reading the fellrnr wiki and came across this interesting chart. It’s called the Ivan Scale of Perceived Suffering and is explained, in the wiki, as… “This…

At work so today’s walk was a few laps around the main building at work. I tracked the walk with Endomondo running on my phone, which was in my pocket. As I was walking around the previously measured 1/4 mile course, I noticed that Endomondo was claiming that I hadn’t walked as far as I…

Having too much time on my hands, I have been looking at my Endomondo statistics and discovered that since February 18th 2013, I have walked over 5,000 miles equating to a fifth of the Earth’s circumference!  I have also burnt around 800,000 calories – equivalent to 1559 burgers. However, I must have consumed more than…

For many years, I have been using a Garmin Forerunner 305. This device is a GPS receiver which enables me to track my walks (and occasional runs). The configurable interface displays lots of useful information about one’s workout, typically I display… Distance Traveled Time Taken Average Pace You can also display Lap Time, Lap Pace,…