A return to Downland running

This time last week, BIG man Daren & I were returning from the Alps, where we completed the Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB) in 4 days and 20 hours.  This is fast compared to the numerous walkers who take a luxurious 11 days over the route, but nigh on 4 days longer than the winner [...]

Alpacam ahoy!

It is a BEAUTIFUL day outside and I am in the process of taking the morning off, if for no other reason than to allow Kim to enjoy it vicariously when she gets back from work!

Bearing in mind that I had to scrape the ice of my windscreen this morning, meeting Daren at Jack [...]

Message for Daren

Dai and I set the world to rights today with a bottle of Merlot over lunch and a relaxed stroll along Brighton seafront on a gloriously sunny day. 

If anyone is wondering why the English have a reputation for talking about the weather, last week was gorgeous, there were floods on Saturday, two inches [...]

Windblown eyes

Cliff said that they were out in the worst part of the storm and that the weather was ‘so bad’ that they were just slipping everywhere in the mud while being inundated with sheets of water. In the pitch dark. [...]

The morning after the night before

Anyway, it will come as small surprise that the 7.30am gathering this morning was slightly more muted than normal! [...]

The big man cometh

Pretty good going considering it was a conversational run over a bowl of soup kind of morning. [...]

Sunday morning escapade

It had been lightly raining with big drops of warm water, but around this point there was a deluge, almost accentuating that I was going in the wrong direction. [...]