Uggghhhhhh. Mondays! My walk this morning was crammed in between 06.00 and 07.00. In the cold, cold darkness. And with half of it on the phone to Singapore. Grim. But it still managed to improve my mood! Continue reading →

Today’s walk was delivered in two chunks – a lovely 45 minutes this morning with both girls and the dog, and a longer hour-long session along the canal in the evening sunshine. The woods this morning were sunny, and fairly dry underfoot. The air smelled of the shoots of wild garlic that are already beginning … Continue reading →

Today’s walk was at a gentler pace – 7km in 90 minutes in beautiful winter sunshine and along quiet country roads. The pace dictated mostly by my 10 yr old. No lambs yet we noticed – but lots of very pregnant sheep. And a little bunny rabbit hidden in a grass nest at the foot … Continue reading →

Phewee! 10% of the way through. Managed to pack in my hour today at lunchtime walking back from Victoria to Kings Cross. Fielded a conference call on the way and still caught a train in time to get back up north for my daughter’s Winter Banquet celebrations at school. Can’t wait for the weekend though. … Continue reading →

Fifteen thousand, six hundred and twenty-three steps in my day today – almost all achieved by walking from Victoria to Shoreditch which took a good hour and 45 minutes. It was a lovely evening but cold. One of those high, distant pinkish-orange skies as the sun went down over the river. Spectacular London skyline – … Continue reading →

A long day! The only way I could fit my walk in today was to wait until I got to London this evening and then walk from Kings Cross to Victoria. At 10pm. Which meant a slightly nerve wracking jaunt across St James’ Park in the dark (I had to ask a persistent beggar to … Continue reading →

The picture from today says a lot really…. still a pretty long way to go. But I managed to get out. I made my target. Even if it was not an easy task in a busy, busy day. Beautifully sunny and warm though – for February! Continue reading →

The whole day today a taut orchestration of impossible competing priorities. A mad dawn dash back from another country but only able to land in Manchester because the flights home were prohibitively expensive. A long, drawn-out train journey across the Pennines in which I struggled to surface from under a slick of email. One of … Continue reading →

So this morning was a brisk 9km loop, trainers really helping with the briskness because their bouncy foot cushioning reduced knee tiredness. Walking without any distractions this morning – no phone, no headphones. It meant that I was much more aware of the mechanics of walking – I could feel the stretch and contraction of … Continue reading →

After a false start – a lovely walk in the woods with a newly clipped canine beauty (adoptive dog baby – not my own). Ninety minutes of brisk walking and gorgeous winter sunshine. Continue reading →