Feeling like death warmed up, I sit at my keyboard writing this.I think that I’ve got some form of cold, flu or even the dreaded, near fatal, Man Flu !!!I had to leave work early, yesterday returning home and spending hours tucked up in bed.Today, I just feel crap – tired, snuffly and generally under…

I took the bus to work, today, as I wanted a walk post-work.I finished work just before 16:30 and took a brisk walk from Digbeth to New Street Station, arriving a tad before 16:45. A train was leaving platform 7a at 16:49 so I didn’t hang around. I arrived on the platform just as the  three…

A day after my pole assisted walk and the knee was still alright. After work, I set off for a walk along the nearby canals taking the pole along with me. Again, being unused to the pole, it took a while to get into a stride but towards the end of the walk I was…

The Christmas / New Year period has been rather quiet, walking / running-wise. My sore knee has been giving me some gyp. Early in the new year, I went and saw my doctor who stuck a needle into my knee and took out some gunk. This gave some relief but my knee still didn’t feel…

Last year (and the year before that) Country Walking magazine ran a scheme to get people to walk ONE THOUSAND MILES in the year. Now, that may sound a lot but it averages out at 2.74 miles per day. From January 1, 2017, I started on this thousand mile quest and was almost there half way…