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Sizzling Strides – Heptonstall Lunch

Another lunch date with Lisa in Heptonstall… I decided to walk up the Buttress for a change, and then up the road rather than through the woods. I wasn’t going to walk quite as quickly as I normally do, but I spotted a man pushing a bike up the hill and decided that I’d see [...]

Road Ride – Blackstone Edge, Long Causeway

Bill had called round for a mug of tea but the sun was shining and we decided it would be better to get out on the bikes for a while, rather than just lazing about chatting so he went off to get his bike and I got mine ready for the ride. I was concerned [...]

Road Ride – Wet Blackstone Edge Ride

Bill came round yesterday, keen to get a little ride in. We had wind and sunny spells, but rain was forecast for about 4:00 pm. He decided to take a chance but I stayed at home. I saw him later and he told me that he’d been caught in heavy rain at Blackstone Edge and [...]

Ardent Ambulation – Heptonstall Quarry (Again!)

I… wait for rain to stop, charge up the hill, arrive at cafe just in time, observe that rain is falling again, drink coffee, see rain stop and sun start shining, walk back down hill via quarry, visit shops, get home just as rain starts again – excellent timing! Please share on these sites:

Power Walk – Heptonstall and The Buttress

Short but sweet – (the walk and this report!) – charged up the hill to meet Lisa, lunch in the cafe, back down the road, then down The Buttress into town to do my food shopping for the week. Please share on these sites:

Road Ride – Trying Out My Mavic Aksium Wheels

My Basso has been out of action with worn wheel bearings and the nuts that I needed to undo to service the hub were rusted up. I couldn’t get them undone with my cheap flexy cone spanners so it looked as though I’d have to take the wheels to my local bike shop to get [...]

A Stroll Not A Walk!

I was supposed to go for a walk with Lisa this afternoon but we seem to have got our wires crossed somehow! I went round to her house and knocked on her door, but there was no reply. I wasn’t late and she hadn’t phoned to cancel the walk so I don’t know what the [...]

Power Walk – Heptonstall

I set off late to walk up to Heptonstall for today’s lunch date with Lisa so after a brief warm-up stroll up the steep slopes of Moss Lane (close to 20% gradient!), I charged up the footpath through the woods to Heptonstall Road. As I got to the top of the path I heard the [...]

Stroll – Heptonstall Again!

Just another of those short posts documenting any exercise I’ve had… My pal Bill is back for his annual summer holiday in Hebden Bridge and turned up this morning. We sat around in the sunshine having a chat as he tried to sort out my Basso’s rear wheel but like me, he couldn’t undo the [...]

Stroll – Rochdale Canal Towpath

Not much to report here, but I’m including it because I want to maintain an unbroken account of what exercise I do. Lisa and I were going to the local Co-op to do our shopping this afternoon, but we had an hour free so we spent that wandering along the canal towpath towards Callis Bridge [...]