Category: planning

  • Jubilation – and a circular challenge

    May was not a good month for walking. I had two stretches of the Jubilee line planned, but was sadly thwarted twice – once by a stomach bug, and once by planned engineering works, which I should probably have checked out beforehand. But June has been better, thankfully – last Saturday I managed 15.1 miles…

  • Victoria Line, here I come

    It looks like a fine day tomorrow to walk the Victoria Line. This is the first big one – end to end, 14.6 miles long, which I’m expecting to take more than 6 hours all told, once you include time spent sitting down half way through. I’ve packed bananas, chocolate, bulla bread and a very…

  • The first line

    So. I’ve been lax about posting here, but I’ve not been skimping on the training. I’ve started walking home from work – just over 6 miles in total, from Vauxhall to Tooting – a couple of times a week. On Tuesday I managed to work in some running too, running for 2.5 minutes at a…

  • Planning: the outline

    One month in to the training programme, and already it’s started to make a real difference to my fitness. I’m up to running two whole minutes at a time – don’t laugh, this is a big deal for me – and with luck and perseverance I’m on track to finish the first major training stretch…