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…
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The Need for Speed
A couple of early starts over the last two days. A dark four miler locally on Tuesday before a couple of dog walks on my return. Then seven miles this morning before work. Walking before sunup meant that I had to utilise the head-torch for some sections which reminded me to ensure that the torch…
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…
To the Pub (widescreen)
Tuesday and I was working from home which meant that I was all done by four o’clock. My other half had agreed to pick me up from The Griffin at seven which gave me about two and a half hours or ten miles. Finishing work a tad early, I walked the dogs locally which served…
Middle of Nowhere
At the beginning of the year, I started a virtual walk across America following the old Route 66 from Chicago to L.A. All my walks are logged via a webpage and backed up with my Strava data. Every now and again, I upload my mileages to the end-to-end website (LINK) and then I can search…