What a glorious evening for a walk. After walking to work ( 4.5 miles ) and back ( 7 miles ) I drove to The Griffin, arriving at 6:45 for a 7 o’clock start. All in all, there were twelve of us as we left the car park and started a two hour ramble around…

I was approached, at work today, and asked if I had a ‘proper’ sponsorship form as there were a number of workers who wanted to donate to the cause but weren’t too happy about doing it on line.I found a form on the macmillan site and have customised it with brief details of the challenge….

Trawling the internet for training articles, I stumbled upon the Centurions1911 website ( www.centurions1911.org.uk ). These centurions are not the be confused with my running club – Centurion Running Club ( website ). The Centurions1911 club is a race-walking club who specialise in walking 100 MILES ( not kilometres but big ol’ miles ) in…

With my cold subsiding, I managed a walk to work and back today clocking up 8.5 miles ( amazingly I clocked 4.28 miles each way even though it wasn’t along the same route ! ). I should have done a 3 mile run but I’m not totally over the cold so didn’t ! Popped into…

HistorySince I started walking to work, at the start of the year, I hadn’t been training toward a specific goal, just getting a bit quicker and going a bit further week by week. The Walk for Kids, focused my mind a little and I tried to get my long walk that much longer, culminating in…