Five Miles an Hour

As is becoming the norm, I was up early on Saturday morning to head for Sutton Park. I parked in my usual place just outside of Sutton Park, pulled on my Raidlight pack and set off towards Queslett. The first couple of miles or so was along lit street until I reached Horseshoe Crescent. It’s…

Swinging

One of those “Not a lot happened, just the usual walking stuff!” sort of day. Got off a couple of stops later to make the walk to work just one mile. Why did I only walk one mile? I’ll tell ya! Today should have been an easy four miles, however, I had to get to…

Warm Wednesday

Usual two miler to work. Usual two miler after work ? Wrong. It was such a nice sunny day, that I decided not to waste it but to walk a little bit further – then catch the bus. From work I walked around the corner and joined the canal network. At Bordesley Junction, I switched…

All Change

Today should have started, as many others, with a two mile walk from Saltley to work along the Grand Union Canal. However, I left the house a tad early, catching an earlier bus. This enabled me to get off a few stops earlier and take a three mile walk to work, crossing the railway and…

Boring

A very uneventful day, walk-wise. Two miles to work and two miles back. Job done ! Slightly more exciting was that on arriving home, I spied the latest copy of Country Walking on the kitchen table. Flicking through the walks section, I noticed a 9.9km (6mile) walk around Kingsbury Waterpark. I may have to try…