Back to the ‘normal’ Saturday pattern after deviating for last week’s Rowbotham’s Round Rotherham effort. Wanting to do something local, my nearest, unvisited, parkrun was Cannon Hill Park. I didn’t want the hassle of driving across town then parking up etc. so drove to work in Digbeth and used the couple of miles walk to…
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Babbs Mill
As I’m officially on a taper week before next Saturday’s fifty miler around Rotherham, my long walk of the week would only need to be ten miles. I started early with a couple of dog walks getting four miles on the clock. After breakfast, I changed into shorts in readiness for today’s parkrun. As I…
Woodgate Valley
As another Saturdays rolls around, it’s that time of week known as parkrun. To get my training mileage of eighteen miles in, I planned on dropping the car in Digbeth, Birmingham then walking out to Woodgate Valley; doing the parkrun then walk back to the car. The mileages added up but then I heard on…
Derbyshire
My brother and his other half have spent this past week exploring Derbyshire and invited me up for a day’s walking. Being a Saturday meant that I had to fit in a parkrun so after a quick look of the maps decided on Markeaston on the outskirts of Derby, as I’d be passing it anyway….
Beduff
The big walk of this week was to be twenty miles so by incorporating the usual parkrun I would need to pick an event about eight and half miles away. Nothing really presented itself so I decided to drive to somewhere that was about nine miles away from a parkrun. After a bit of map…