I use an app on my iPhone for tracking my walks called MotionX-GPS ( gps.motionx.com ). Similar to endomondo ( and many others ) but it has a much better voice and can save my walk data to Dropbox and send an email to my account. With sufficient battery power ( I’ve ordered TWO 10,000mAh external…

Not a great deal to report but now the ‘proper’ sponsor forms are in circulation are at work, I have had a few promises and a real five pound note. Hopefully the money should start rolling in and before the walk so that I can pass that all important £200 mark. By signing up to…

What a glorious evening for a walk. After walking to work ( 4.5 miles ) and back ( 7 miles ) I drove to The Griffin, arriving at 6:45 for a 7 o’clock start. All in all, there were twelve of us as we left the car park and started a two hour ramble around…

I was approached, at work today, and asked if I had a ‘proper’ sponsorship form as there were a number of workers who wanted to donate to the cause but weren’t too happy about doing it on line.I found a form on the macmillan site and have customised it with brief details of the challenge….

Trawling the internet for training articles, I stumbled upon the Centurions1911 website ( www.centurions1911.org.uk ). These centurions are not the be confused with my running club – Centurion Running Club ( website ). The Centurions1911 club is a race-walking club who specialise in walking 100 MILES ( not kilometres but big ol’ miles ) in…