Again!

It was the crack of noon. The phone rang. We had not long since rolled out of bed. It was Amanda! We were supposed to be going a run! Ahhhh. Most of our usual 12 mile-ish routes would be thick with mud or were just TOO boring. So we set out to do the route we meant to do yesterday. But the tide was in yesterday! We looked at the Leith tide tables, and they showed the tide being high in Leith 15 mins later than yesterday - so we were able to work backwards - we started at about 2.30 yesterday and pretty much hit the high tide...if we could set off at 1.30 today that would hopefully give us enough time in hand to get round the trickier bits of headland before full high tide....it was by no means a sure thing but it seemed a reasonable enough punt to take...

And so it was. We set off from the same place, an hour earlier, with Amanda and Scott. It was the same grey day. The wind was forecast to be 7mph compared to yesterday's 6mph.

I felt a lot better than yesterday. I hoped I might. 11 hours sleep can do wonders.

Long story short, the tide was pretty far up the beach but we made it round with some minor diversions inland. Scott and I ran in shorts and got our legs lacerated by the thorny bushes and the sharp grasses.

We finished up with...cheese tongues and I had some more of that diet Irn Bru.

How the weekend flies by and I have not yet done the things that I need to, to prepare for the week...
Nice day out though and my heel wasn't too bad. Fingers crossed I can start increasing my mileage again in earnest. My legs were like concrete by the end of the run...