The year kicked off with me making plans for all the events that I would be doing in 2016. Unfortunately, as is often the case, I didn’t attend all of them. The biggy of the year was the LDWA Hundred in Dorset in May. In preparation, I squeezed in a few long walks including a…
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Ten Years – 2015
I appear to have returned to running early in 2015 culminating in running the Coventry Half in a time of 1:52. I continued with the running for a while (including a few parkruns – getting down to 23:54) until recurring pain in my right knee forced me back to walking. In 2015, I purchased my…
Parkrun … and some
Now that I’m back into some sort of regular training, I had decided to attend a parkrun this Saturday. I had not attended the semi-local Kingsbury Waterpark parkrun for some time so chose this one. I would also be doing a longish (LSD) walk on Sunday – probably to The Griffin. Then, I realised that…
Lethargy
All was going well, last year, achieving … 1769 Miles walked Learning to Race-Walk (work in progress) renewing my love of parkrun Joining a new athletics club … all was going well and then, it just ground to a halt ! I’m not sure as to why. After my first ever race walk race, I…
Beside the prom, prom, prom
My lovely niece was getting married in South Wales and as the ceremony wasn’t until Saturday afternoon, this gave me time for a cheeky parkrun in the morning. We were staying near Bridgend and the nearest parkrun was at Porthcawl – about a quarter of an hour’s drive away. I got ready and sneaked out…