Category Archives: Turf

Walkies today, partly a change from cycling or kick scooting and partly due to the terrain I’m planning on visiting. That being the tricky, slippy, slidey, muddy, up and down path along the north side of the River North Esk … Continue reading →

With turf round #136 all but finished and new round #137 beginning, I thought it was time for a quick overview of my last round and also share a few thoughts that have come to mind as well. The first … Continue reading →

After a few months of turfing your local patch it can become rather tedious taking the same old zones time after time. So, what I do is try to make my turfing sessions an adventure, even a mini adventure, or … Continue reading →

Having recently order another kick scooter, the folding Swifty One, I felt the need to be out on the kick scooter again. But there was the problem, I just couldn’t decide where to actually go. On the plus side, I … Continue reading →

Today’s turf blog makes a slight departure from actual turfing, from actually visiting zones and taking them, and delves more into the means to provide the ability to turf. It is also born from excitement on my part. In fact, … Continue reading →

My original plan today was to nip along the Dalkeith to Penicuik cycleway as far as Rosewell, have an easy spin around the village and Whitehill estate with my trusty iron steed, Ogre, and grab enough zones for my Five-A-Day. … Continue reading →

Turfing and visiting relatives sometimes just do not go together well, at least not for myself today on a visit down to Kelso in the Scottish Borders. It’s frustrating in the extreme, to put it mildly, particularly when you know … Continue reading →

Zone EskIsland, Musselburgh, located by the weir on the River Esk. I’d stopped to take the zone but had overshot and was forced to reverse the bike to get back into the zone area, tricky here as the path narrows … Continue reading →

I watched an amazing video the other day. It was titled Safety to Nome (trailer), a feature-length film that documents the 2017 Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI), a 1,000-mile fat bike, cross-country ski or foot race across Alaska, from Anchorage to … Continue reading →

Still somewhat restricted in my ability to turf using either bicycle or kick scooter, or even walk very far for that matter, since my encounter with the Very Despicable Pulled Muscle in the Back Goblin while undertaking the highly dangerous … Continue reading →