Friday morning was the ‘usual’ local walk clocking up around three miles for the pair of pooches. In the evening, Sue took Gabby for about a mile or so and I took Misty out for about double that. We met up towards the end of my walk and the dogs (Kev & Misty, Sue &…
Kev Walks
Podcast to Shetland
Thursday A mile and a bit each before work. In the evening, I took the dogs out for what I call Shetland Walk. Obviously, nowhere near The Shetland Isles but a lot closer to home. When the local estate was built, each area had all of it’s roads based on a particualar theme. We have…
Coleshill
After their obligatory early morning walks, the dogs were left behind as I drove into work. Even though the dogs had woken me early (I thought that we’d cracked this behavior!) and I know that I would be tired, I thought that I might, after work, get a bus or train to somewhere near Coleshill…
I'm Still (King)Standing
The dogs had each had a mile and a half walk in the morning but my training plan called for eight miles today. Late afternoon, I jumped on the 96 bus for a circuitous ride to Kingstanding. While riding the 96, I overheard a guy talking on the phone telling the person on the other…
Another go at the Hundred ?
I was looking through various websites looking at upcoming events, when I came across the LDWA’s hundred for 2021. The Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) hold an organised one hundred mile walk every year. A few years ago, I tried the Dorset 100 starting (and finishing) near Weymouth. Unfortunately, it didn’t go too well and…