Read on for my top 10 hacks for socialising outside this winter. Get ready for cold weather, outdoor socially-distanced, covid-19 restricted winter meet ups! We’re now well into autumn (which I personally love) but with covid-19 restrictions not going away any time soon and the colder months of winter just around the corner, we [...]
It’s the end of WildWay’s first season! And what a successful first season it’s been. It started in the rain with a soggy geology tour around Castleton, Peak District with members of the public taking part in GeoWeek and it ended in the rain with a walk provided for members of the Mountain Training [...]
The Nigh of the Supermile. The aim: run as fast as you can for 1 mile at Normaby Hall Country Park (near Scunthorpe). Your reward: cake and beer and the warm feeling of satisfaction. The prep (there was some this year!) I’d been training specifically for this race for ~6 weeks. My aim was [...]
It was 1st August 2018, I flipped over the calendar to see, written in my own fair hands on the 17th - The Night of the SuperMile! Damn it! I’d completely forgotten about this race. I’d ran this 1 mile race in previous years; my last effort, getting down to 6 minutes and 3 [...]
It was that time of year again, time for Endure24 Leeds, only this time was different. I’d be going solo! I’ve ran several running endurance events before on a set lap course as part of a team, (in this case 5 miles) and you take it in turns with your team members to try [...]
It’s nearly a year since I ran Endure24 Leeds 2018. Here’s what I wrote about it at the time... I’d entered the Endure24 running event near Leeds for the 2nd year running as a team of 5. The idea of the race/ event/ sadistic torture, call it what you like, is that, like a [...]
The 76-year-old in this case was my dad, and the mountain, well, it was more of a big hill at 455m; it was High Cup Nick, North Pennines. It was June, and I’d promised to take my dad for a walk for his birthday; his birthday was in February, but I'd was thinking at [...]
