- Cycling, Events, Footbiking, LANDS END TO JOHN O'GROATS VIRTUAL CONQUEROR CHALLENGE, RUN DOWN UNDER VIRTUAL WALK / RUN CHALLENGE, Walking
More Lands End to John O’Groats Challenge Postcards and Run Down Under progress
LAND’S END to JOHN O’GROATS VIRTUAL CONQUEROR CHALLENGE I have never visited the British Isles, so when I started this challenge I didn’t really have much of an idea what Land’s End actually looked like. But recently I found a…
- Cycling, Events, Exercise, Exploring, Footbiking, Interesting Places, LANDS END TO JOHN O'GROATS VIRTUAL CONQUEROR CHALLENGE, Travel
Lands End to John O’Groats Challenge Postcards
Since the previous post about the Lands End to John O’Groats Virtual Conqueror Challenge, I have past the following waypoints and received postcards. 10th January 2021: The Eden Project “Although the idea for the Eden Project only dates back 20…
- Cycling, Events, Exercise, Exploring, Footbiking, Interesting Places, LANDS END TO JOHN O'GROATS VIRTUAL CONQUEROR CHALLENGE, RUN DOWN UNDER VIRTUAL WALK / RUN CHALLENGE, Travel, Walking
New 2021 Fitness Challenges
Two new fitness challenges will make 2021 an interesting year for maintaining my fitness level. One of the challenges is for cycling, and the other for walking / running. For around 10 years now, I have been cycling regularly. It…
The ‘big smoke’, a big bridge and a big wait
There are some things that just have to be tried at least once. On Saturday night, at 11:45pm, I was waiting patiently on the Culcairn train station platform, and the Melbourne-Sydney XPT (think British Intercity 125 HST, but ‘Australianised, whatever…
Henty Field Days
Over the last few days the annual Henty Machinery Field Days (most people seem to shorten the name to Henty Field Days) has been on. For me it was the first time I had been to a ‘field days’ event…
