I appear to have returned to running early in 2015 culminating in running the Coventry Half in a time of 1:52. I continued with the running for a while (including a few parkruns ā getting down to 23:54) until recurring pain in my right knee forced me back to walking. In 2015, I purchased my…
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Ten Years – 2014
After the euphoria of the Thames Path Challenge and my first RRR, I neglected my blogging until picking it back up in October of 2014. In the interim, both Sue (my other half) and I changed jobs. Firstly, I moved to work at a data centre in Redditch which was a bit too far away…
Ten Years – 2013
I was having a re-read of this blog, recently and realised that Iād been jotting down thoughts on walking, running and cycling for nearly ten years. My first entry was way back in 2013 when I started to document my journey to complete the 100k Thames Path Challenge. That first foray into blogging (originally on…
Biking and Beer
A few weeks ago, I discovered that a company was putting on a cycling event not too far away from home. The event was described as a sportive starting from the Purity brewery near Alcester. There was a choice of routes, aptly named The Half Pint (35 miles) and The Full Pint (52 miles). As…
Nearly There
At the beginning of last year, I signed up for and started a virtual walk across the US from Chicago to LA along the renowned Route 66. I had twenty four months to walk / run / cycle the 2,278 miles. As I was only walking at that point I was only logging walking miles….