Kev Walks

Not a great deal to report but now the ‘proper’ sponsor forms are in circulation are at work, I have had a few promises and a real five pound note. Hopefully the money should start rolling in and before the walk so that I can pass that all important £200 mark. By signing up to this challenge, I have had...

What a glorious evening for a walk. After walking to work ( 4.5 miles ) and back ( 7 miles ) I drove to The Griffin, arriving at 6:45 for a 7 o’clock start. All in all, there were twelve of us as we left the car park and started a two hour ramble around the parish of Shustoke in...

Today, I’ve set up an on-line sweepstake to give people the chance to donate to macmillan but also to have the chance of winning a prize ! For £3, you can guess what my finishing time will be and the nearest wins the pot. Breakdown Of each £3 guess… 50p goes to the winning pot £2.01 (with gift aid) goes...

I was approached, at work today, and asked if I had a ‘proper’ sponsorship form as there were a number of workers who wanted to donate to the cause but weren’t too happy about doing it on line.I found a form on the macmillan site and have customised it with brief details of the challenge. I’ve printed a few out...

Trawling the internet for training articles, I stumbled upon the Centurions1911 website ( www.centurions1911.org.uk ). These centurions are not the be confused with my running club – Centurion Running Club ( website ). The Centurions1911 club is a race-walking club who specialise in walking 100 MILES ( not kilometres but big ol’ miles ) in under 24 hours – that’s...

Whilst searching the internet for articles on long distance walking I came across the LONG DISTANCE WALKERS ASSOCIATION website ( ldwa.org.uk ). Along with lots of useful info there is the EVENTS section. There are loads of walks listed from short, local guided walks to the more ambitious challenges. These are walks of around 26 miles ( some longer, some...

With my cold subsiding, I managed a walk to work and back today clocking up 8.5 miles ( amazingly I clocked 4.28 miles each way even though it wasn’t along the same route ! ). I should have done a 3 mile run but I’m not totally over the cold so didn’t ! Popped into The Griffin to find out...

HistorySince I started walking to work, at the start of the year, I hadn’t been training toward a specific goal, just getting a bit quicker and going a bit further week by week. The Walk for Kids, focused my mind a little and I tried to get my long walk that much longer, culminating in a 17 mile walk from...

I have sorted out my travel / accommodation and it goes something like this… Friday 13th September Leave Birmingham to drive to Henley-on-Thames arriving mid-afternoon.Park the car up.Catch train to Putney Bridge, London.Walk to Jury’s Inn, Chelsea.Crash out. Saturday 14th SeptemberTaxi / walk ( depending on distance ) to Putney Bridge. *108:00 – 09:00 Start Thames Path Challenge.Walk,Walk,Walk … Sunday 15th...

Tonight’s training walk consisted of some 11 miles from work to my favourite watering-hole, The Griffin near Shustoke. After the first mile, the next five were along the Birmingham & Fazeley canal before turning off to Bodymoor Heath and then to Whitacre Heath before passing Shustoke reservoir and on to The Griffin. Mostly wet from the rain and later from...