Today, I had to drop my car off for it’s annual check-up. The garage is about two miles from work so a couple of miles at each end of the working day would boost my total by another four miles or so. The car was duly dropped off and I took a rather breezy walk,…
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Captain, we are being scanned
Had to go to work in the car today as I needed to get over to Solihull in the afternoon for my MRI knee scan. They kept me waiting for a while before strapping me down for twenty minutes of buzzing, banging and clicking (or was it humming, tapping and whirring?) whilst my knee was…
Two Walks Tuesday
The master plan called for eleven miles today but I arose early and decided to walk into work. The shortest route is seven miles – not the prettiest but the quickest. One hour and forty minutes after leaving home I arrived at work. Oddly, after all the hastle with my Garmin yesterday, immediately upon stopping…
Wone or O-Nay
Odd title – so what’s it mean ? It’s my new shoes. Made by a fairly new entrant to the sports shoe arena, Hoka One One have bucked the trend for more and more minimalist shoes by going the other way and producing a range of very well cushioned, wide soled shoes. Even if the…
Sutton parkrun – take two
Saturday morning so how about a parkrun ? My training schedule says twelve miles for today but a parkrun is only 3.1. A bit of maths reveals that I’ll have to walk a further nine miles at some point today. At 06:13, I left the car and proceeded to Sutton Park for a circuit of…