Snow !

I had walked the dogs earlier in the day (4 miles) but took myself out for a longer walk to get the mileage up. The walk started off easily enough with the ‘usual’ walk over the M6 and M42 link before I had to negotiate the muddy top end of attleboro Lane. This path used…

The End of Endomondo

Endomondo was created in 2007 as a sports activity tracker. In 2015, Endomondo was acquired by Under Armour (UA) at which time over twenty million subscribers were using the platform. Probably because UA had a number of it’s own fitness trackers, notably the Mapmy whatever your sport is and Mapmyfitness, there was no need to…

New Year

After a bit of a tumultuous last twelve months, a new year dawns but will it be any better than the last one ? I should think that 2020 will be remembered as the year of Covid as the disease spread across the globe. In an effort to slow the spread, various restriction were put…

Off – On – Off

After many weeks of lockdown, I was quite happy a few days back with the news that LDWA group walks could take place under the latest coronavirus restrictions. I spotted a local walk on my local group’s webpage, around Birmingham’s canals on Jan 2. I emailed the organiser to check that it was actually on…

Miles & A Group Walk

Sorry Be-Bop fans but this entry is not about the jazz legend that is Miles Davis but about the miles that I’ve covered this year. After a blistering start, Coronavirus struck and all the organised walks disappeared. With no set goal or goals to train for the training mileage went right down. Luckily, having a…