Five Hundred Miles

I was up with, or even before, the larks this morning. I have been waking earlier recently, somewhere around four to five. I’m letting the dogs out into the garden then either nipping back to bed for a snooze or just bimbling around for a while. Somewhere around five, I’ve been taking a dog out…

Catching Up

Following my rest day, I reckoned that I needed to get out and clock up a few miles today. As a warm up, I took the dogs out from a total of five miles before returning home to their breakfasts. Leaving the hounds munching, I slipped back out of the front door and headed for…

Podcast to Shetland

Thursday A mile and a bit each before work. In the evening, I took the dogs out for what I call Shetland Walk. Obviously, nowhere near The Shetland Isles but a lot closer to home. When the local estate was built, each area had all of it’s roads based on a particualar theme. We have…

Coleshill

After their obligatory early morning walks, the dogs were left behind as I drove into work. Even though the dogs had woken me early (I thought that we’d cracked this behavior!) and I know that I would be tired, I thought that I might, after work, get a bus or train to somewhere near Coleshill…

I'm Still (King)Standing

The dogs had each had a mile and a half walk in the morning but my training plan called for eight miles today. Late afternoon, I jumped on the 96 bus for a circuitous ride to Kingstanding. While riding the 96, I overheard a guy talking on the phone telling the person on the other…