EfM: Day Release – (Virtual) race report
12 months ago I had the opportunity to take part in probably the most mad race going in the UK. Escape from Meriden (EfM) has a prison-break concept from the sleepy village of Meriden in…
Stockport
Quarantine – Day 29 and counting
I had to go away and check what the quarantine day number we were up to. To be honest, every day merges into the next and the one previous at the moment. If I didn’t…
Race Review – The Big Stockport 10k
It feels like an age since I last raced. This is possibly due to the ongoing injury, as I’m resting far more than training at the moment. Anyway, it was a local race today, The…
Offerton 10k – Race Review
After a lack of races recently, I compete in two in successive weeks! This is my review of a very local race, the Offerton 10k. About the Offerton 10k I’ve commented previously that we have…
GPS Watch woes
As amateur athletes, we are spoiled with the expanse of technology which is easily available to us. GPS watches are available at many different budgets and most mobile phones carry a GPS chip. Sites such…
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…
Stockport Trail Half Marathon
Well I certainly hadn’t planned on such a long gap between blog posts. In fact a couple of posts were drafted but never completed. So today’s aim is to manage to get to the end…
Stockport 10 2016
Today was the annual Stockport 10 road race. As usual, I like to do a write-up of my races. Stockport 10 – a brief summary The Stockport 10 is a slightly unusual race as it’s…
A Christmas walk at Lyme Park
I spend half of one day each week at Lyme Park, volunteering as a Park Ranger. My role is to be out and about in the Park, looking for problems which will require maintenance (unsafe…
Everything Changes (part 2)
Well prior to me re-uploading the recipes onto the new platform I commented about how change was in the air. I called it ‘everything changes’ but still left the main change hanging out in the…