One thing that I love about the German language is the way that two or more words are run together to create a new word. One example is the word for a glove. By combining the word for hand (Hand) with that for a shoe (Schuh) we get Handschuh. What has any of this to…
Kev Walks
Sunday Walks
Following on from yesterday’s twelve miles (11.98 to the pedants) I needed to walk a total of fourteen today. First walk was a morning stroll with the dogs. From the house we made our way to the River Cole for a muddy river-side walk towards Meriden Park in Chelmsley Wood then continued to Babbs Mill….
Sutton Park
After making all the plans for using my Garmin watch to navigate my way around a spanner was thrown into the works in the shape of a new (well for me at least) sports watch. After using Garmin devices for many years, I have jumped ship and gone for a Suunto watch, specifically the Suunto…
Watching the apps
To achieve tomorrow’s ten miles, I’m aiming on doing the Sutton Park parkrun, preceded by a loop of the park. This should give me around eleven miles all in. To help navigate, I plan on using an app on my Garmin watch called Dynamic Watch (or DW). This app will give me a line to…
Dog Walking
My daily dog walks often get recorded and posted on Strava. Not very quick but they walks are a conscious effort so I feel it proper to include them. The dogs hate being separated so I tend to walk them together (note to self – this separation anxiety needs sorting). Now when one dog finds…