The forecast had predicted 90% Heavy rain. I sat in the car at the layby above Loggerheads and listened to the 90% certain rainfall hammering on the roof. It was 2.30pm with not much daylight left – time to get a move on. I was wearing-in new shoes and needed the run. I also needed […]
Helen and I enjoy spending New Year at Center Parcs; a perfect way to charge the batteries up ready for a new term. Up until this year we had opted for the Sherwood Forest location but after a quick visit to Whinfell during the summer to visit my daughter and family we decided to book […]
After a very busy year at work to date I found myself without a qualifying 50 for the 2016 LDWA Hundred, so looking through the SIEntries website I found this event in the Retford area, which seemed ideal. As it turned out it was an odd event but very enjoyable in its own way. Canal […]
It may be a story that most of us know only too well but it’s such a strong recent memory that we can react emotionally to many aspects as if it were happening now. The Beatles Museum at Albert Dock, Liverpool, is outstanding at bringing these moments to you in remarkably well-constructed settings; The Casbah, […]
Delightful ride through Cheshire and borderlands. Ecclestone, Pulford, Ewloe, Northop, Shotton, Stanney, Wervin and back to Chester. 47 miles
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So, Marcothon 2014 and RunEveryDayDecember events are over. These are the first of such events I’ve entered, where you join a virtual community chasing a common goal – in this case to run every day in the month of December 2014 – and I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. In the case of Marcothon 2014, […]
Landranger 15 – just about as far North as you can go on the West coast of Scotland. The land is rugged – generally keeping to below 200m – and sprinkled with hundreds of lochs, and this allows the mighty peaks of the region to stand proudly above this landscape; Suilvan most notably in the […]
This is where it all began. [Insert essay here] [work in progress] The memory of those earlier events is so strong that an almost Tolkien-ish atmosphere envelopes them. Kate and I made our way to the start by the Lyke Wake stone for 5am in plenty of time for our 5:20 start. We had hoped […]
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