Planning

With the Bullock Smithy pencilled in for September and a few other events, including Charnwood, Corvedale and the Across Wales walk also on the agenda, I thought that it must be time to draw up some sort of training plan. Adapting a plan that I’ve used before I’ve got all my walks sorted from now…

Jan 30 – Blogging

Not totally happy with the blogging platform that I’ve used for years (on and off) I have been experimenting with a few alternatives. One of the most popular is WordPress but when using the free, bundled hosting, certain things don’t work, namely my endomondo totals which I want to be displayed on the top of…

Jan 29 – Where's the snow ?

The day started with the usual bus ride to Saltley and a two mile walk along the canal into work. Listening to the weather at lunchtime I was warned of impending snow – that’d make a nice walk home ! At around 16:30 I dressed ready for the anticipated snowstorm, stepped outside and was instantly…

Jan 27 – Prison

Due to a number of things, my long Saturday walk was done on Friday (LINK) and my Friday rest was taken on Saturday.To complete the week, the schedule had nine miles for today.  I fancied something a little different but didn’t want to travel too far. I had a quick play on the plotaroute website (LINK)…