After completing my virtual tour of Scotland, I have just come back from a fortnight in the Real Scotland. My good lady and I spent a couple of weeks island hopping around the Outer, and to a lesser extent, the Inner Hebrides. My knee was still playing up so not a great deal of walking….
After nearly eight months, I have finally completed my virtual walk around the North Coast of Scotland. I started on the 1st of October last year and have slowly added all my walking (and a tiny bit of running) miles towards the challenge. I was nearly there a couple of weeks ago but with…
I managed to fulfil my obligation last Saturday morning by walking around the Babbs Mill parkrun course, coming in last in a time of 1:08:27. A slow time but I was one of the official Tail Walkers. It was the first ‘proper’ walk since my disasterous return to running and managed without too much discomfort….
Hoping that my recovery goes well, I have volunteered to tail walk on this Saturday’s parkrun at Babbs Mill. ‘Only’ three miles nice and steady. Looking for something low-impact (so that definitely rules out running) I decided to dust off the bike and turbo trainer. I hit a couple of snags … 1) Zwift has…
The knee is still sore but at least I am able to get comfortable enough for some sleep. On Tuesday, I finally got through to the doctors’ receptionist only to be told that I was too late to get an appointment in the morning. “Can you book me in for this afternoon, then?” I enquired….