Active Travel Plans

  A fun run in the sun was the start of the day, they don't have parkrun out here, but they do have a sun run. Same distance, 5 euros to charity, and a comprehensive warm up both formal and informal. Informal was my 1.5 mile jog to the start, formal was a bit of 80s style stretching with TVAM Lizzie / Green Goddess of Lanzarote. Being a bit of tight arse I did feel as I paid I should make a bit of an effort, so gave it a good go on the outbound which was flat to undulating, and then got collared for about half a mile on the inbound by an offshore breeze that almost ground the running to a halt. That been said, under 23 mins which is as good as it gets for me at the minute, and a nice bit of parkrun style banter afterwards with some of the other runners, almost all appeared to be from the UK. Chrissi chose to run solo and I met her afterwards around where my run ended. This was in the heart of the tourist bit of Costa Teguise, not an area we have spent much time in, but had a quiet ...

  Very much goodbye rain, hello sun today, although it was sunset when we finally arrived in Lanzarote but I could still very much feel the sun had been active (as indeed I plan to be during our stay)  Set the tone for active before we even departed (to be fair the whole of the last month or two has been pretty active as I seek to bury the memories of Chicago) and negotiated the rain, mud and puddles to a parkrun near the Premier Inn we had booked to stay the night before our departure to Lanzarote. In getting the main drive out of the way last night, we were able to remedy the various things we had forgotten with a couple of near closing time visits to supermarkets in / around Crawley, and feel that we were indeed ready for lift off, get a bit of sleep and not have to rush around before departure. The parkrun so the various stats tell me is my 101st different one and starts with an I, these are important facts for the community.  The course , which is more of an importan...