7.3km/4.5miles with 1389ft ascent.
On top of the thaw, we had a massive storm last night - rain and gales beat the house for the best part of 18 hours and stripped the remaining snow from the surrounding hills so this morning woke to a very swollen River Dee. Its continued to rise, reaching a peak around 2pm this afternoon and when I took the photo (sorry for quality its on my phone), it was 4pm and already twice its usual width and a completely different river in character. The midstream was a crushing, grinding, screeching torrent of ice blocks coming down from the Cairngorms, a few escaping to the new shoreline - reminded me of the Norwegian ice floes. Theres a fair bit of structural damage to some of the estate buildings and some trees down from the wind too and some of the lower laying [sitka] forests are under water.
My usual trails are under water, both the high and the low ones! So todays run, once everything had calmed down, was just a run around boggy feilds, bits of trail and even some road. Didn't feel great at all and struggled to keep going - felt leaden and throat is sore (but as the results have come back negative for both the blood and swab tests taken recently, I guess I'm just going to have to live with it!)
However, all negativity is about to be erased by diving face first into a plateful of homemade veggie lasagna :) Tomorrow, as they say, is another day.
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