Sunday Walks

 Following on from yesterday’s twelve miles (11.98 to the pedants) I needed to walk a total of fourteen today. First walk was a morning stroll with the dogs. From the house we made our way to the River Cole for a muddy river-side walk towards Meriden Park in Chelmsley Wood then continued to Babbs Mill….

Sutton Park

After making all the plans for using my Garmin watch to navigate my way around a spanner was thrown into the works in the shape of a new (well for me at least) sports watch.  After using Garmin devices for many years, I have jumped ship and gone for a Suunto watch, specifically the Suunto…

Watching the apps

To achieve tomorrow’s ten miles, I’m aiming on doing the Sutton Park parkrun, preceded by a loop of the park. This should give me around eleven miles all in. To help navigate, I plan on using an app on my Garmin watch called Dynamic Watch (or DW). This app will give me a line to…

Dog Walking

My daily dog walks often get recorded and posted on Strava. Not very quick but they walks are a conscious effort so I feel it proper to include them. The dogs hate being separated so I tend to walk them together (note to self – this separation anxiety needs sorting). Now when one dog finds…

Squiggle

I had planned on walking to the railway station after work and catching a train to Sutton Coldfield. This would give me a combined distance of around nine miles. However, checking The Plan, revealed that I only needed eight miles for the day and I’d already clocked up three and a half. I fired up…