Andrew Irvine

WALK THIRTY-ONE

Monday 9th Jun Share

Walk Thirty

Monday 9th Jun Share

Walk Twenty-nine

Monday 9th Jun Share

Walk Twenty-eight

Monday 9th Jun Share

Walk Twenty-seven

Wednesday 28th May Back to work after the long weekend, out for a respectful couple of pints to celebrate a mate's birthday, home, hoody on, out for my mile! +3.71 miles walked for the love! Share

Walk Twenty-six

Wednesday 28th May Haha! I love the Bedlington Station ones! Had a wonderful Bank Holiday Monday! Bowling, lunch, Nanna and PopPop's, and the Park with the Sister and Neiflings, then off for my mile with the Sis and her two idiot (though, adorable) dogs! The route is her's to choose until the robot voice yells 'one mile in twenty-ish odd minutes...'! Lols! +2.54 miles walked for the love! Share

Launch a Memory...

Wednesday 28th May Share

Walk Twenty-five

Wednesday 28th May My first Neifling's Birthday... The deeply beautiful garden where Eliza is resting is just off the A1 in Northumberland... This year we met to tend her garden, talk, and go for coffee together... I got the bus and did my walk from the bus stop, back down the A1 and ended it at her marker... 0.16 miles into this walk, I met my goal of walking 31 miles, one for each of the days in May. Eliza's name is memorialised in the decal on the side of the RNLB Shannon Class, Lifeboat 'Agnes A P Barr', based at Invergordon Lifeboat Station... +1.08 miles walked for the love! Share

Walk Twenty-four

Wednesday 28th May Track puts me in mind of a Peanuts character! So, decided to treat myself to a takeaway... Tracked my walk to the door, decided on my order, went in, placed it with the kind human, offered my phone to boop for payment. Cash. Only. #sadface! 0.16 miles to go! I'm glad that I'll reach my goal tomorrow. It's going to be a special walk. Share

Walk Twenty-three

Wednesday 28th May Finding ways around the road works! 1.36 miles to go... Right, def need to think about what to do when/if I reach my goal! Share

Walk Twenty-two

Wednesday 28th May Dad came over and helped me to mow and rake the lawns, wish I'd been wearing my watch for that! Lols! Really happy with how they turned out and shared a beer with him sitting on the end of my deck... Then after he headed home, did my mile... Nee idea what's going on with the track at the ASDA Garage there, but from the look of the route, it looks like the road works were in full flow! 2.53 miles to go! Share

Walk Twenty-one

Wednesday 28th May PAY DAY YAY! Second experience of a delightful rain-fall shower in the kitchen due to an exploding toilet... NOT YAY! Also, 4.06 miles to go! Lols! Share

Walk Twenty

Sunday 25th May Gym Night! I, may have been a little tired last night and there's a chance I forgot to stop the tracker when I got in... I swear to God above that this walk didn't take me 1h 41 minutes! 5.46 miles to go! Share

Walk Nineteen

Sunday 25th May I think a Cadbury Picnic Bar could be considered a health food/salad! 7.07 miles to go! Share

Walk Eighteen - The Lost Track

Sunday 25th May I mean! C'mon! Share

Walk Eighteen

Sunday 25th May This, is my official Day 18 post... Had a properly brilliant day at Plessey Woods with the Sister and Neiflings! The journey home was an adventure, and when the second bus was both early AND didn't wait, the decision was made for us to walk back to Bedlington Station... Took the opportunity to track it as my Mayday Mile... The app behaved oddly and that track, vanished. Victoria offered that whilst dinner was cooking, she and the dogs would accompany me on an extra mile for me to post here... The previous track then showed up. Because, of course, it did... That, will be my next post, but not my next 'official' mile! Lols! Share

Walk Seventeen

Sunday 25th May Left it too long to post this post, nothing of note to add except... 8.5 miles to go! Share

Walk Sixteen

Saturday 17th May SciFi Night! Had a lush evening with Dad watching Andor S2, then headed out for my walk... 9.67 miles to go! Well, would you look at that! The first is a single digit! I mean the other two mean pretty much two-thirds, so it rounds to ten, but still... Canny! The night was still and calm and temperate... Noticed the elevations tonight, like, in my brain, not my body... Oh and also... Lunchtime today marked the halfway point temporally, and I’m going to go ahead and say I’m at the two-thirds point distancely (yes, I’m inventing words now), so I guess it’s time to start thinking about what to do if I reach my goal early… Share

Walk Fifteen

Saturday 17th May So, you know when it's a Gym Night? I start the tracker when I leave the house, pause it at the door, do my session then start the tracker again at the door and walk back to the house via the ASDA Garage to get a Picnic bar... Thing is, I do a mile on the treadmill each time... The app can't track that as I'm not covering physical distance and I don't own a wearable... Now, technically this isn't an 'extra mile' I do this every session so I wouldn't log it here, it just feels some kinda way is all... 10.85 miles to go! Share

Walk Fourteen

Friday 16th May Really leaning into the routine of it all... This route is lush! Gentle elevation changes, downhill in the final section... Nice! 12.37 miles to go! Share

Walk Thirteen

Friday 16th May Gym Night! And, it would appear, a walk to the ASDA Garage... A Cadbury Picnic bar is a healthfood, right? I mean it has raisins, RAISINS!!! 13.83 miles to go! Definately passed the halfway point distance wise! Share

Walk Twelve

Monday 12th May Expecting the caffeine crash any moment now, so typing quickly! Lols! 15.23 miles to go! Can we call this 'halfway', distance-wise? Or not quite, yet?! Share

Walk Eleven

Monday 12th May After a brill day with the Sister, Brother in Law, and Neiflings... Realised it was getting late after dinner so decided to do my walk in Bedlington! My Sister came with me! Properly lovely! 16.93 miles to go! Share

Walk Ten

Sunday 11th May Almost up-to-date with the updates! Ten days in, 12.7 miles walked, 18.3 miles to go! Launching the fundraising of it all today! Share

Walk Nine

Saturday 10th May Very nearly forgot to go for my walk! Played online Mario Kart, built some socials posts for work, drank a couple of Guinesses, ate fish and chips, became blissfully couch based... WALK!!! Headed out at 22:00, perfect weather, felt great tbf! 18.8 miles to go! Look at that, I've walked over 10 extra miles in 9 days... ☺️ Share

Walk Eight

Saturday 10th May Gym Night! It's mean that the walk from the gym is uphill! Lols! Heard back from RNLI. Apparently, even though I'm tracking with one of the two recommended apps, automatic syncing of activity requires a wearable. yay. Resolve to keep going and to sit down on Saturday and manually log my activity, and then on Sunday launch the fundraising of it all... Wonder if folk will notice the first ten entries were all posted on the same weekend! Lols! 20.08 miles to go! Share

Walk Seven

Saturday 10th May Need to remember to restart the tracker, before, crossing the road! Lols! 22.08 miles to go! Share

Walk Six

Saturday 10th May Gym Night! It's about half a mile there, I add a little extra on the way back just to make sure... 23.25 miles to go! Share

Walk Five

Saturday 10th May Definitely settling into a routine/route... Still not seeing updates on my page, I'm starting and closing an activity in the app, the information is logging in the FitBit app... Grumble! 24.55 miles to go! Share

Walk Four

Saturday 10th May Starting to find a route that I like... Activity still not syncing from the FitBit app... Glad to have a few miles under my belt, want to get the logging issues sorted before launching fundraising though... 25.71 miles to go! Share

Walk Three

Saturday 10th May Needed to go to the ASDA Garage, so added a walk around the estate... 26.89 miles to go! Share

Walk Two

Saturday 10th May Got off the bus a couple of stops early... Haven't settled into a routine or a route yet... 28.25 miles to go! Noticed that my activity hadn't been logged from the previous day... Share

Walk One

Saturday 10th May Very much started as I hope to go on... I walk around 3 miles per day, so I wanted to approach this as an 'extra mile'... 29.46 miles to go! Share