I’ve gone and joined a cycling club! I was playing about on Swift, looking in some of the darker corners of this app when I came upon Group Rides. These are organised events where a group of similarly experienced riders get together and ride a course together. There is a group leader and all the…
Training
First Ride
That’s not my first bicycle ride ever, I think that that was back in the mists of time when I was around five or six. This first ride is the first time that I have ridden my bike in what was the spare bedroom and now doubles as a home office / pain cave. My…
Work to the Boozer
I had a rest day on Monday then took the doggies out out for pre-work walks on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. At work on Tuesday, I received an email (well, actually, at work, I receive tons of emails) from the Great Run group telling me that the Great Birmingham Run would be taking place on…
Confession
The last time that I posted on this blog was back in February when I was lamenting my total lack of get-up-and-go. I sort of hinted that I’d be taking part in a six hour event on Cannock Chase (which never happened) and also the annual A Coventry Way, forty miler about a month later…
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…