Wet Sunday

To complete this weekend’s back to back walks, I dragged myself out of a nice warm bed and out into a cold, wet morn. I may have imbibed a little last night so wasn’t 100% as I headed out of the front door and headed onward. I slipped my way along the muddy track to…

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…