The preliminary results are in ( link ) and as can be seen below, I’ve been given a time of twelve hours, thirty minutes and TWO SECONDS! Just over the twelve and a half hours – oh well, there’s always next year! The official result Having a think about my low period during the Round…

So early Was rudely awoken by the alarm at 04:00. Showered and started to feel awake.Looking out of the window, I could see that there was a light drizzle so the ground was going to be wet. The forecast was for light rain until 06:00 then dry, if cloudy, the rest of the day. Temperatures…

Day off from work.Had some bits and pieces to attend to earlier but all was done by one o’clock so after another check through, I threw my stuff into the car and headed for the M42.The M42 and A42 were busy but moving freely. The M1 was a different matter. Roadwork by Nottingham and again…

Managed to whizz home from work in time to cadge a lift to Moseley with Sue.With my fifty miler on Saturday, I didn’t want to overtax myself today so deliberately walked slower than normal; at about 14:30 pace.Nothing exciting – no rain and quite mild ( around 11 degrees ). I’ll be looking for these…

Up at the crack of Yawn Another busy night at work but a bit of a wind down afterwards.Parked up in C-de-B and had a gentle jog through the fields to Damson Parkway before joining the canal for a further few hundred metres to reach Damson Lane.This was today’s turnaround point and I was soon…