Many moons ago, before Covid, I booked to take part in the Dovedale Dipper, a twenty six mile, undulating, walk around Dovedale in the Peak District. The event was postponed until this year with the revised date set for this coming Saturday. As I’ve been spending a lot of time on the bike, recently, instead…
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Brunch & Wobble
All the Gears (no ideas!) I spent some time on Saturday removing the cassette and adding a couple of spacers behind it before replacing it. I then spent some more time setting up the gearing which now allows me to access all eight gears or sixteen with the chainwheel shifter. As a test, I took…
BBCHM
Acronyms are great except for the first time you introduce them and you have to expand the nemonic so that people know what the hell you’re talking about. So let’s get BBCHM out of the way – Birmingham Black Country Half Marathon. Any wiser ? This is an annual race, along the canal system, from…
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…