Kingsbury

The dogs woke me up sometime around five and with my alarm set to five thirty it wasn’t worth going back to bed so I got dressed and took the puppies out for walkies. I have, recently, reverted to taking the dogs out one at a time as they are much more manageable solo. First…

I'll have a Half

That’ll be a Birmingham Half Marathon, if you don’t mind. After my longish training walk on Wednesday, I took the rest of the week fairly easy with just a few dog walks. Saturday, I took a rest day. Actually, I did do something walk related on Saturday. As I only signed up for the Great…

Work to the Boozer

I had a rest day on Monday then took the doggies out out for pre-work walks on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. At work on Tuesday, I received an email (well, actually, at work, I receive tons of emails) from the Great Run group telling me that the Great Birmingham Run would be taking place on…

Parkrun … and some

Now that I’m back into some sort of regular training, I had decided to attend a parkrun this Saturday. I had not attended the semi-local Kingsbury Waterpark parkrun for some time so chose this one. I would also be doing a longish (LSD) walk on Sunday – probably to The Griffin. Then, I realised that…

Confession

The last time that I posted on this blog was back in February when I was lamenting my total lack of get-up-and-go. I sort of hinted that I’d be taking part in a six hour event on Cannock Chase (which never happened) and also the annual A Coventry Way, forty miler about a month later…