I'm hobbling on. Now 80% through my run, and wondering how long it's going to be before I can complete it.I passed the 80% done mark of this Lands End to John O' Groats run the week before last, fairly pleased that I seemed to be catching up on the time I've lost...

I have finally arrived in Edinburgh, and I've just run past the road where Ms Eliza shares a flat with her mates.Here is what The Conqueror says about Edinburgh: "Welcome to Edinburgh Castle, Gita. Oh, and by the way - you're standing on top of a volcano. It's an...

Finally I've arrived in Scotland. Rather oddly, I'd never been across this border until 2018, when I took Eliza up to university and cried the whole way back but on calmer occasions I've driven through such breathtaking countryside that I can only guess at what lies...

I had always thought that Hadrian's Wall formed the border between England and Scotland but it turns out that that's still a little way off.Just under a year after starting this challenge I find myself here at Hadrian's Wall. I'd originally hoped to be nearer...

I reached my latest milestone, 60% of my journey.Almost unnoticed, I passed the 60% mark of my run from one tip of the UK to the other in early December. Today, a week from the anniversary of me starting my run, I'm about 10% further on. What can I say? Life has been...

It's an astoundingly pretty part of the country.At last I've stumbled, almost breathless, into the Yorkshire Dales. It's not easy running up those hills when you have so little oxygen left in your blood. `Or when you've had so few opportunities to run. Or, in fact, so...

I find that I have now run through Bradford. And also through Bingley. I know little about these two places, except that that they were a Building Society.Now, a friend of my mum's taught at Bradford University once upon a time, I think, and for a time in the 1970s...