Flew into Toronto yesterday so the focus right now is on trying to stay awake. I hope to visit the Toronto phone box again once my brain is back in gear, but that will have to wait till next week!
Phone Box Thursday: State of the Phone Box
Bit of a ramble today to update about what will be coming for future phone box posts!
I’m up to date with the phone box logging as it stands, but have quite a few boxes in my notes that for various reasons I wasn’t able to photograph. I have plans to ‘collect’ some of them later this year but for now I have logged everything (bar one or two photos for which I need to do a bit more research).
The long-promised phone box map – if you’ve been following for the last few months you’ll know that all phone box posts are now complete with coordinates, so they’re ready to go once I start working on this project! The question is when I’ll have time to do so, but I might be able to get a better sense of that during an upcoming writing retreat.
After a multi-year break I am back marathoning Doctor Who again, so there will be an eventual return to my sub-series of ‘The Wrong Phone Box’ posts. I also have one or two videogame phone box features in the planning.
I also still need to do this book review I promised over four years ago 😬 plus at least one post about other phone box paraphernalia I have in the house!
Lots in the pipeline, but it will be a bit quiet for the next few weeks. Hoping to keep sharing progress though!
parkrunday: Town Moor #701
Another week, another trip to Town Moor. According to my logs, I’ve not done the same event so many times in a row since early 2018! It was another tough run in the wind so my result was seven seconds slower than last week, but still consistent. Hoping for SB weather again next week.
One more run on the Moor planned next week and then we’re a bit further afield again.
Phone Box Thursday: Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
Following my discovery of the black K-series homage phone box in Middlesbrough, sparking a memory of the one in Bradford, I realised I was also running past one with my running club every Sunday!
(Coordinates 54°97’21.4″N, 1°61’71.1″W.)
Still not got round to researching these, but I will!
parkrunday: Town Moor #700
It was lovely to be at the celebratory 700th Town Moor parkrun, especially as (a) it was Easter weekend and (b) it’s still the two-lap course 😀
I did step up the effort level a smidge this time (aided by nylon plate shoes and the fact that it wasn’t blowing a gale like it had been the weekend before; Storm Dave was yet to arrive in Newcastle), but I was pretty surprised at the end to find I’d taken two minutes off my time from the previous attempt! Still a long way from PB shape but we’ll keep chipping away.
parkrunday: Town Moor #699
Broke my streak of weekly improvement at Town Moor today, but given the high winds I’m not too fussed. Keeping a consistent effort week on week.
Expecting to be back on the Moor next week to celebrate the big 700th event!
parkrunday: Town Moor #698
All of these parkrunday posts are going to look the same for a little while. I usually rotate my parkruns even when staying local, but I’m finding that the temporary Town Moor two-lap course is really useful for measuring my progress while I’m coming back from injury, so I’ll be doing it for the foreseeable.
It was my 300th parkrun, so it was nice to celebrate one of those interim unofficial milestones! It was also nice to run in short sleeves – spring has been good to us so far.