I always write up my tales from the rails for my future self to look back on, but if someone else gets enjoyment from them too then great. It's a shame we seem to have lost a fair few trip report people over the last couple of years, hopefully now restrictions have eased we'll see some of them return.
Will definitely be planning some trips away for summer. I always seem to end up in Scotland at least once, and I really ought to make a start on the South Coast/South East, both of which are essentially untouched beyond the London Travelcard zones.
Oh my yes, definitely the best way to do a trip report. I do this often with my own, it's interesting to see what was going on at the time. I'm sure the ones I've done this year, and will do as the year continues to fly by (how is it almost mid-April already?) are going to be, well, interesting tales to read and potentially even share in the future.
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I was thinking about this trip reporting thing last night at work, and we've lost some big names. Kite159 (for some reason when I tag him in this it then wipes out the text) has moved on to produce his excellent trip reports elsewhere, and
@heart-of-wessex is now a full time coach driver I believe. Keith Jarrett, he was a legendary character on here and I do wonder what happened to him. I know he had a lot of work stuff happening, and I hope whatever he's up to he is all well. I genuinely don't know, if anyone does I'd appreciate hearing about him.
There's just 3 big names all moved on, and the way things are developing here I will soon be in that same crowd. Indications are that the year has a lot of good stuff lined up for me. I've spent a lot of time here recently, but now I've recovered from injury (cycling accident) I've got back out there and I'm finding less of a need to be on here. So I've already cut back my forum time in the last week, and developments are that I need to consider just how much time I spend on here on an average week. In time, I'm sure my trip report thread will reveal more details on this decision, for now it's all very much on a need-to-know basis. Once the relevant people are all genned up, and so far only one person has received the full gen, then it can be revealed here.
All good things, of course, and the point being that, like the others, it's fast approaching the time when I finish the long-running improvement scheme. My my, it seems appropriate that Coldplay's Fix You is playing right now! There's still things on that scheme to be completed, and I've been doing a lot of them in the background lately. Soon, the connection to the forum will get cut too and I will be in the same club of people who've moved on!
ANYWAY! Enough of all that! Let's talk about your March trips. It was clearly a quiet month for you (rather the opposite to mine!) but it was still productive. I can imagine you were very glad to get back to the Parkrun runs again, and what a great way to connect with your daughter. Running's not for me, I have tried but the cardio-respiratory system just can't cope and the body is too weak for that. Power/speed walking and cycling, I am well up for that though! When I want to go for gold, my record average speed is 5.2mph over an hour as my personal best. It was 5.0mph until some weeks back, and yes there is a plan to push harder at some point. I hit 5.1mph for the average over a 75 minute walk this week though, after not really trying to begin with. So that's as close to running as I am willing to go!
Well done with that 68 too!
Other than that, it looks like you had a decent month, despite bouncing back from the dreaded c-word!
