Big Finish

Now before you get excited, this post is not about muscular Sven from Helsinki. Amazingly, I DID wake up at 03:30, breakfasted, threw together a few provisions and was in the car heading for Sutton Park by 04:04hrs. Instead of parking in a side street, as planned, I was able to drive into the park…

Rest

Today, according to the master plan, is a REST DAY. It’s all very good clocking up mileage day after day but the body needs time to rebuild and come back stronger. Today was that time. Catching two buses meant that I had only a short walks to get to work. Mid-afternoon, I received a call…

MOT Runaround

Today, I had to drop my car off for it’s annual check-up. The garage is about two miles from work so a couple of miles at each end of the working day would boost my total by another four miles or so. The car was duly dropped off and I took a rather breezy walk,…

Captain, we are being scanned

Had to go to work in the car today as I needed to get over to Solihull in the afternoon for my MRI knee scan. They kept me waiting for a while before strapping me down for twenty minutes of buzzing, banging and clicking (or was it humming, tapping and whirring?) whilst my knee was…

Two Walks Tuesday

The master plan called for eleven miles today but I arose early and decided to walk into work. The shortest route is seven miles – not the prettiest but the quickest. One hour and forty minutes after leaving home I arrived at work. Oddly, after all the hastle with my Garmin yesterday, immediately upon stopping…