Quarry Bank Trail Race – race review
It’s been a busy (ish) month for races during August 2018, although it wasn’t planned that way. Whilst Cracken Edge Fell Race had been on the calendar since January, the rest of the month was…
National Trust
1000 miles done! #REDBED Day 17
It’s #REDBED Day 17 today! An update on the various challenges As you might have expected if you read yesterday’s blog, I was pretty close to achieving the 2017 run 1000 miles challenge ‘officially’. Today,…
A media campaign
I was asked to put together a media campaign about the positive impact of running on mental health. This followed an exchange with the PR people at RunTogether. I see little point repeating the information…
Summer Running
It’s the school winter term already and I’ve not even caught up with the summer running yet. When I last wrote, I’d bitten the bullet and dragged my body kicking and screaming around the Scott Snowdonia Trail…
To Incentivise Exercise
A question I’ve pondered over the years as an advocate of physical exercise is how one encourages others to get involved. Is it enough to preach about the benefits or do we need to incentivise…
Lyme – 9 February 2016
As I’ve explained before I spend a lot of time up at Lyme Park, a National Trust property in Disley which is on the edge of Cheshire and Stockport. When I’m not inspecting walls, fences,…
Everything Changes
I guess this marks the beginning of a new era. Or perhaps more cryptically the beginning of the beginning of a new area. Everything changes, as they say. Website Changes First of all, if you’re…