It was a warm, somewhat overcast afternoon as I left work for the short drive home. Once back at base, I changed into, what I thought was, appropriate walking attire and set off for my favourite watering hole. Being warm, I choose shorts and a short sleeve top. wary of my exposed bits, I slapped…
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Hurley
Surprisingly, I was up a little before five thanks to the dogs who wanted to go outside. I had set my alarm for 5:30 so it wasn’t too bad. After letting the pooches out and getting a feel for the prevailing weather conditions, I dressed my long walk. I did a walk a couple of…
New Treadmill
During the first lockdown, from March 2020, outdoor exercise was limited to once per day so to get more exercise, I dusted off an ancient treadmill and used that. The old machine worked fine but it soon became evident that the belt slowed down at each footfall so that the readout couldn’t be trusted. I…
Brummie Cut
As I have done recently, I nipped into work for a few hours on Saturday morning. In the past I have gone in on public transport and them walked home. However, I needed to drop some stuff off and bring some stuff home so used the car and went for a walk from work, returning…
This week's walks
We, the dogs and I, took a rest day on Monday walking absolutely zero miles. Tuesday was a couple of dog walks totalling four miles. Nothing special but on my virtual Route 66 challenge I crossed over the Mississippi into Missouri. Wednesday started the same way as the day before. After walking the dogs through…