With the plague still upon us, I decided that I needed something a bit more challenging for 2021. For the past few years I have taken part in the Country Walking #Walk1000 miles challenge where the plan is to walk one thousand miles in the year. Trawling around the internet I came across End to…
Author: kevbaldry
Ghost Town
Birmingham was in the news last week as it entered Tier 4. There were reporters from national BBC standing at the top of New Street, in the shadow of Queen Victoria, telling us about the latest restrictions. The thing that I noticed was how quiet New Street was with very few people walking around. I…
Snow !
I had walked the dogs earlier in the day (4 miles) but took myself out for a longer walk to get the mileage up. The walk started off easily enough with the ‘usual’ walk over the M6 and M42 link before I had to negotiate the muddy top end of attleboro Lane. This path used…
The End of Endomondo
Endomondo was created in 2007 as a sports activity tracker. In 2015, Endomondo was acquired by Under Armour (UA) at which time over twenty million subscribers were using the platform. Probably because UA had a number of it’s own fitness trackers, notably the Mapmy whatever your sport is and Mapmyfitness, there was no need to…
New Year
After a bit of a tumultuous last twelve months, a new year dawns but will it be any better than the last one ? I should think that 2020 will be remembered as the year of Covid as the disease spread across the globe. In an effort to slow the spread, various restriction were put…