Tuesday October 3rd – Day 11, Zell an der Mosel An early-ish run saw me head down the river towards Rissbach, and its lovely timber-framed houses. There was a detour to avoid a tree marked as having a hornets’ nest in it, and a slight loss of direction at the camp site (I was slightly…
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Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 1
Saturday September 23rd – Day 1, Eurotunnel, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany And so the long awaited “big” holiday of 2017 rolled around and after much complicated planning we were off to spend two weeks (almost) meandering along the course of the Mosel (or the Moselle as the Brits call it), visiting castles, implausibly pretty little…
Travel 2016 – Tampere, Day 10
Day 10 – Thursday 14th July (Tampere) Moose count = not a single one! Today the weather was much improved after the storms of the previous night and for us it was all about Tampere. The apartment was in the middle of a building site (some sort of tunnel seems to be under construction, for…
Travel 2016 – Turku, Day 8
Day 8, Tuesday 12th July (Turku) Moose count = still none! I started the day by going for a run, foolishly assuming I would find my way back really easily. I hadn’t thought that the river I crossed might be more complicated than it seemed, and that there could be more than one area full…
Running 2015 – Cancer Research UK London Winter Run
So… the inaugural Cancer Research UK London Winter Run, all 10k of it. As most people must already know my last actual race (as in a timed event with chip timing and everything – not a parkrun) was back in the mists of time, in March 2011 in fact when I completed the Silverstone Half…
Fitness 2014 – Fitness Musings
I’ve been having an interesting time of late with some relatively minor – well, I look on it as minor anyway – surgery. Through it all I’ve tried very hard to maintain my efforts to rebuild my fitness now I seem to be able to run again, and to try and shift the extra 36…
Fitness 2014 – Shhh….Whisper It… Don’t Alert the Running Gods
On the grounds that they are nasty, sneaky beasties who take pleasure in tormenting runners by making them into non-runners. I think I may be making progress. I’m probably not doing as much core work as I should, but after 6 weeks of solid swimming sessions to build some endurance (and some upper body tone…
Fitness 2013 – Anniversary Musings
It’s a year almost to the day since I had my reconstructive surgery on my ankle, and it’s most impressive how much better it is now. There’s some residual tenderness and pain in the back of my heel (but then again it’s only 4 months since the metalwork holding the bone in place was removed)…
Fitness/Life 2013 – Life Stuff
It’s been an “interesting” 8 months. As some people will know, we got back from Macau last November and were almost immediately hit with the news that Tony, my father-in-law had had a stroke. Cue lots of desperate rushing back and forth from the Midlands to Bristol, visiting the hospital, fighting the solicitors to get…
Fitness 2012 – 10 Week’s Since Surgery
Well, my ankle is still a bit stiff – and a bit sore on the outside along the more complicated wound site – but it’s moving well in most directions, and I have successfully walked from bed to bathroom and back several times now without the ski-boot contraption to protect it. I am therefore optimistic…
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