After a reminder that I'd volunteered to run the Aberdeen to Stonehaven leg of the now under-way Round Britain Coastal Relay I thought it best (despite the fact I'm not supposed to run anymore*) to get some practice in as I am due to complete said leg on or around Sunday July 4th. So 3 miles trail run tonight (I haven't run in quite a while so thought it best to start short!) followed by a lot of stretching. I felt OK and didn't have to stop, so I think the cycling has at least kept my muscles and aerobic capacity in some sort of compatible state. Actually, I'd go further than saying it was OK and admit to loving feeling the rhythmic pounding of my feet upon the earth again. Whether my thighs and ankles still love it tomorrow morning is another question!
Last week was all about shoving in steady mileage on the roadie and an unofficial TT on Saturday before work to end the week. I didn't end up going to Fort William for various reasons I'm not going in to on here, so I had a lazy but enjoyable Sunday with N and Jnr. In retrospect I'm kinda glad I didn't go to F/W as I needed the rest. So instead we shopped unsuccessfully for open water goggles for me, successfully shopped for stuff for N in the Apple shop which reminded us we were old and not cool enough to even stand in the doorway, met an old friend and his new baby further down the coast, chased ducks, ate Swiss roll in front of the log fire, drank German herbal liqueur (continuing my quest to find a reasonable equivalent of Hierbas which isn't available over here), watched Fast and the Furious and yapped well into the wee small hours. Bloody well perfect lazy Sunday if you ask me :)
Oooh yes, I have new wheels too! Light with bearings so smooth it makes your heart sing. They're responsive and just lovely. I had previously doubted people when they said the biggest improvement you can make on a bike is by putting on a set of lighter wheels but holy cow! What a difference! Still have to pedal the thing though eh ;)
The veg is coming on well. I'm impatiently awaiting the first crop of spinach though - it seems to be taking an age - but the tomatoes are flowering and the first buds have appeared on the peppers. I've moved everything into the greenhouse as we're over-run with rabbits this year. Its the first time I've seen this many - many twenty or more of them nibbling away on the lawn on the mornings. Its very cute but it does mean any veg grown outside is fair game. If I were more of a man (?) I'd pop some off from the bedroom window of a morning but I'm not, and the only other person man enough to do it isn't interested in anything other than his double espresso until about 8am by which time all our wee Thumpers have legged it into the lush green barley fields surrounding us.
*Apparently - due to a medical history peppered with multiple fractures of my ankles and feet, combined with a (in retrospect) damn stupid impatience which saw me removing my own casts most times well before the allotted healing time - my ankle and feet bones have not healed in the correct places and this has been causing the pain and difficulty in walking after running. I was offered surgery to re-break and set the bones in ankles/feet but as the time-in-plaster was given as 4 MONTHS per ankle/foot, I politely refused. 8 whole MONTHS without cycling or walking in the hills or running or anything? I made the seemingly simple choice to switch from running to cycling. Was going fine too until I got the reminder about the relay which forced me to don my shorts and try to ignore the excited buzz as I laced up my trainers.....
Well that's about it for now, off to put Jnr to bed and look out the rain jacket for tomorrows cycle in and out, yup summer's here again.....A Bientot ma petits Filous!
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