Just under a year after starting this challenge I find myself here at Hadrian’s Wall. I’d originally hoped to be nearer Edinburgh by this point but my periodic ferritin failures this year have affected my ability to run. I’m back to normal now, baby, and trying to catch up.

I had logged all runs and yoga sessions and any walking automatically logged as a workout on my watch as distances on this challenge. I no longer log my yoga but find that my watch seems to have recalibrated itself, or maybe I have, and is logging more walks as workouts, so the distances, though small, add significant progress to my week.

So here I am, and here’s a little bit about Hadrian’sWall:

As any proud Scot will tell you, the Romans never made it there. Although there were settlements over the border, and even a few successful spats with Pictish tribes, Scotland never became part of the Roman Empire.

Every Roman mile (not quite as far as a modern mile), there was a milecastle – a fortified manned post for extra security. With a wall that was fifteen feet high and ten feet thick, getting through was difficult. Unsurprisingly, it was so well built that much of it still stands today.