About Brian
7,668 km
545:20 h
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- RolfDa day ago
Beautiful photos from the tour 👍. Wishing you a peaceful Christmas 🌟🎁🍷
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- diablotourerDecember 14, 2025
Well if you get the Waugh on the road next spring, will see you coming !
- RolfDDecember 8, 2025
Judging by the photos, it's a beautiful tour - great description 👍
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- YorkNey Trail RiderDecember 5, 2025
@Brian great pictures and description too, decent size walk mate 👍😎
Brian went for a hike.
about 4 hours ago
This morning I did a tough turbo trainer session on the back of yesterdays 12 miler but I felt surprisingly good. Anyway this afternoon I had one present to deliver to a friend but I didn’t want to leave it with her instead I delivered it to her sister who is going to take the flack for me. I’ve just finished decorating her house and in the process I managed to ruin a new pair of trainers that my friend had just bought when a can of expanding foam leaked and went everywhere including all over me, it’s a bugger to get off just so you know !! Anyway my feet had recovered slightly from the blisters yesterday too so it was nice to just have a stretch of the legs.
01:42
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Brian went for a hike.
a day ago
Today I decided to have another long walk to the coast and my intention was to try and get to Blyth again. Once again though I didn’t!! But I got close. Today was very gloomy and there were intermittent showers. The conditions underfoot were pretty awful, muddy, slippy and boggy. My route took me through the Weetslade Country Park, through Camperdown and Backworth. Then I met up with the Heritage Way path which I’ve been on a few times. Through Holywell Dene but on the south side, it’s a bit more up and down. I crossed Hartley lane and found myself next to Whitley Bay holiday park. It was a short walk down to the lighthouse and then along the cliff top to Collywell Bay where I nearly went my length ( fell over for non North Easterners). It was at this point I bumped into someone I used to work with at North Shields Police Station over 30 years ago. It was nice to see him again, I hadn’t seen him for a while. My walk ended outside the Melton Constable pub where I had arranged to meet my support crew. My little toes were badly blistered as I foolishly wore the wrong boots which are going in the bin as I type. Yesterday I did quite a hard turbo session. so my legs are feeling it today.
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220m
Brian went for a hike.
4 days ago
So today my intentions were to walk to Seaton Sluice but via Blyth. However after negotiating my way through Cramlington I ended up on the Laverock Hall Road. This is a very busy A road going into Blyth, after a mile or so I’d had enough despite being on a footpath so I decided to head into Seaton Delaval on the disused railway. Once I got to SD I followed a footpath that took me into Seghill then it was a case of picking my way back home. Lots of mud and marsh off road and plenty of pavement pounding. This was another long walk this week it was quite nice and mostly very quiet.
04:28
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Brian went for a hike.
6 days ago
I had a little errand to run today so I combined it into a long walk. The walk was mostly on paved surfaces with just a short section on very wet and muddy grass at Killingworth Lake. Popped in to see Mam on the way back. No photos today.
02:40
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5.5km/h
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Brian went for a hike.
December 16, 2025
The object of today’s walk was to get back home from the fish quay using as many footpaths and rights of way I could and to try and incorporate paths I had previously walked on. My walk took me along the the quay at North Shields then into the Royal Quays housing estate past the marina. I stopped off at Newcastle Quays (formerly Royal quays retail outlet) for a much needed coffee and a bacon growler. My route then took me along the C2C cycle route as far as Hadrian road where I c struck off towards Holy Cross, there’s a ruined chapel at the end of valley gardens which is a schedule 1 ancient monument and was built by the monks from Jarrow in 1145 it’s fenced off but you can still see it all, see photo. I then walked through Wallsend Dene and under the A1058. My route then took me through the Rising Sun country park and then onto Killingworth Moor, there’s was a lot of hoo hah with the locals over the development of green belt land by a housing developer and as a result there are path closures and diversions as the developers ruin a wildlife corridor. My route from here, like most of what I was on was the North Tyneside Waggonways. The end of my route was on the recently opened bit between Wideopen and Seaton Burn. This was quite a walk but not really difficult just a bit clarty in places.
04:10
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5.2km/h
200m
150m
Brian went for a hike.
December 14, 2025
Biweekly trip to the nursing home to see Mam after an aborted turbo trainer ride after my tablet fell off the stand when I was pedalling too furiously. The tablet was fine but I pressed the wrong icon and lost all of the ride data. Rouvy doesn’t save partial rides which is a bit of a pain. On the plus side the Joe Waugh bike restored for use on the trainer was excellent. It was red but I’ve restored it to the funky fluorescent yellow.
00:39
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5.2km/h
40m
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Brian went for a hike.
December 8, 2025
I had a bit more time today and wanted to combine two parts of a couple of routes that I have done recently only in reverse. I got dropped off at Brenkley, just a couple of miles from where I live and walked through the Blagdon estate on excellent hard park paths. I crossed the A19, which was very busy and dropped down into Plessey Woods. It was extremely muddy and the River Blyth had even more water in it than the other day. I discovered a footpath that followed the A1068 to Plessey. Checks then I had to walk along the verge for a short distance (about 1/2 mile). I needed some stuff from my local Toolstation so I popped in there before continuing through Beacon Hill and down a rough track to Arcot Lane, from there it was just a couple of miles home on a quiet road. This was quite enjoyable but once again I found myself walking in the dark for the last mile or so.
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Brian went for a hike.
December 4, 2025
This was a last minute walk, Allison dropped me off at Northumberlandia and I followed the tracks , which were very clarty, down to Plessey woods. The route was very circuitous and ended up being 4 miles when had I been able to walk directly it would have been no more than 2 miles. The walk I solved a railway crossing. The route I wanted to take through Plessey woods was out of bounds due to tree fall and over eroded paths. The woods are owned by the Blagdon estate and there was an alternative path higher up which I took. I had to cross the A19 and fortunately it wasn't too busy. I knew that I'd be walking in the dark at some point and my intended route was a further 5 miles but I made the decision to "step out" up Stannington Vale where I knew there was a footpath alongside the Blagdon estate but once I got to the Berwick Hill road I knew I'd be on the road for a mile before I hit another footpath but the traffic was light, to increase the jeopardy I was wearing all black ! All in all this was a nice walk but the weather was a bit naff and most of the paths were very sticky, slippy mud.
02:50
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5.7km/h
140m
170m
Brian went for a hike.
November 30, 2025
Up to the home to see Mam. Then out to buy a new (to me) bike. It’s going to get restored.
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Brian went for a hike.
November 27, 2025
Having been stuck in the house for a bit I decided to go out for a walk and doing across the Weetslade Country Park. It was unusually mild and quite windy. It was also wet under foot. I also had a very important mission to complete that involved me going to Aldi and getting a bottle of wine for the Boss. On the way back I thought I’d risk walking along the part of the Reivers route/ Waggonways, it looks like Capita are almost finished their work and the upshot is the paths are much wider. To be fair I was only on the last 100m before hitting the great north road at Seaton Burn. I did a big turbo session this morning so my legs are feeling it now. Only one photo but I do like the sky in it.
01:23
7.78km
5.6km/h
150m
140m
Merry Christmas
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