tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77083536926892694612024-03-14T06:21:35.789+00:00This runner's worldThe life and times of Yak Hunter.Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.comBlogger950125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-36808707721621040042024-01-01T17:30:00.002+00:002024-01-01T17:30:34.775+00:00Holiday Snaps<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yPXi_sqVFeM" width="320" youtube-src-id="yPXi_sqVFeM"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With Laurie Anderson Excellent Birds.</div><br /> <p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-69280012335752970662023-12-30T18:36:00.000+00:002023-12-30T18:36:53.507+00:00TIME FOR A YEARLY ROUND-UP<p> Oh no you're not going to tell us all about your knee again are you?</p><p>Well no, not really. In order to save a lot of chat I have prepared a graphic for you. My year in sport.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjluQmSjEorwiXw3s2hRzjVqZHrEyUprH7U7prIGKUym7bKHRpDym9NUBJFHo4BJ7JbX23dO50qgRdMtdFMDJs7UL-7vmZycVM73lIrP6FyNQtJuW1AhavXi-r0oAE4qQDlKW5N5CMXh9-QkUsiVADEgFXvLlIqIruSUsDi-27P6_gNDsiybw5Os1s3-Mo/s591/BLOG%20GRAPHIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="591" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjluQmSjEorwiXw3s2hRzjVqZHrEyUprH7U7prIGKUym7bKHRpDym9NUBJFHo4BJ7JbX23dO50qgRdMtdFMDJs7UL-7vmZycVM73lIrP6FyNQtJuW1AhavXi-r0oAE4qQDlKW5N5CMXh9-QkUsiVADEgFXvLlIqIruSUsDi-27P6_gNDsiybw5Os1s3-Mo/s320/BLOG%20GRAPHIC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I think getting out on my bike was the best thing about this year, sporty-wise, and I'm hoping to do it again and do it more when the weather gets better. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Meantime, we're recently back from Tenerife. I'm still carrying extra beef from the chips'n'beer, but it was lovely to be away in the warm sun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We spent a bit of time with Colin and Joan Wilson, while we were out there. I knew who Joan was back in the day because we were hill racing at the same time but I don't think I'd ever had a conversation with her. Colin is also a keen runner but is big into butterflies too, so he and Peter had been trading butterfly chat on t'internet and we realised we were going to be in Puerto de la Cruz at the same time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was really nice to have company on holiday - usually we just go ourselves. We all ran on the dirt running track at the side of town and Colin and Joan got us to come and swim in the harbour.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Joan and I swapped stories about how we were trying to adapt to aging and what races we had done and might do and what we were thinking about training.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Here's a bunch of photos in no particular order.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bQlT-gVm8DNjS4jIfLj113LGe4xci8Sl_iKaWzEDcHMHZ2vkw6gpWxuqYMllK-xK_aexVywWCbBSLNtT5-kvzhc2XCUUNjgPwc6yQSsCvav8jUc3D2-tg9-PoJs-3qynzaHUAepflHKsYncU4S_VerhJCn0A1NMERQ-z5YLMs7e2wnpPo3j3mGMb-2E/s2048/at%20the%20harbour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1573" data-original-width="2048" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bQlT-gVm8DNjS4jIfLj113LGe4xci8Sl_iKaWzEDcHMHZ2vkw6gpWxuqYMllK-xK_aexVywWCbBSLNtT5-kvzhc2XCUUNjgPwc6yQSsCvav8jUc3D2-tg9-PoJs-3qynzaHUAepflHKsYncU4S_VerhJCn0A1NMERQ-z5YLMs7e2wnpPo3j3mGMb-2E/s320/at%20the%20harbour.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the harbour</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAw3bgYPsgMJXqUHtPrjEyEzc3OgbyKhGeC_ZaXMc5iC1FoiEGUcwAlvBKXoQgvEkKEjvSzQYCtpHtTvd1rTEGKDrcxvAiVNAcSa4OY6pvYzGyiWCUV6fpS2bDmsZLoIUHcO97kTZ30bEumlpP8OwWO6USvGeIQocE0vhvlQZFCw67XY9inqlr2Ur6X7E/s2048/at%20the%20track%20peter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1459" data-original-width="2048" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAw3bgYPsgMJXqUHtPrjEyEzc3OgbyKhGeC_ZaXMc5iC1FoiEGUcwAlvBKXoQgvEkKEjvSzQYCtpHtTvd1rTEGKDrcxvAiVNAcSa4OY6pvYzGyiWCUV6fpS2bDmsZLoIUHcO97kTZ30bEumlpP8OwWO6USvGeIQocE0vhvlQZFCw67XY9inqlr2Ur6X7E/s320/at%20the%20track%20peter.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the track</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCIWJoFQCC-m1N5rA_KWa5pPFM77tB41UwdEzc2HJYvhQnyx4S4Hu7AmKPAwJJrvUezw1hWUnkDWGg3UbIOLu-lT9uKH49NGWa8c5C7xyxYwVFf_E0Z9a8X5jCVqyA0mwmhzrfHiGStKxNXLXSpqxiPL7vHxQOaSIRm6wT9xqBAW81rJGOs9-WmaVmyo/s2048/at%20the%20track.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1496" data-original-width="2048" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCIWJoFQCC-m1N5rA_KWa5pPFM77tB41UwdEzc2HJYvhQnyx4S4Hu7AmKPAwJJrvUezw1hWUnkDWGg3UbIOLu-lT9uKH49NGWa8c5C7xyxYwVFf_E0Z9a8X5jCVqyA0mwmhzrfHiGStKxNXLXSpqxiPL7vHxQOaSIRm6wT9xqBAW81rJGOs9-WmaVmyo/s320/at%20the%20track.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the track</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTIe8kUjc5M7j7cpGgOSbV7pN9gF0uU-tUPiVG-x5RwQb9FK_2i30N0hQ-7zi9sBPyQgaaPSqHVQvEp4kgH65b-9a5egh0cI0nwLtIL414Uk57xsBmbMlzQsISg45HwCwDwX6THvAwGRzSX77OMJCv3TJlA0OaGz5EAHu5mAwQhXwjeTj1kMF8sBFjKU/s2048/colin%20and%20joan%20at%20the%20track.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1437" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTIe8kUjc5M7j7cpGgOSbV7pN9gF0uU-tUPiVG-x5RwQb9FK_2i30N0hQ-7zi9sBPyQgaaPSqHVQvEp4kgH65b-9a5egh0cI0nwLtIL414Uk57xsBmbMlzQsISg45HwCwDwX6THvAwGRzSX77OMJCv3TJlA0OaGz5EAHu5mAwQhXwjeTj1kMF8sBFjKU/s320/colin%20and%20joan%20at%20the%20track.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Colin and Joan arriving for a track session</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOiYNDgm3eJHCXmrlxf3DosPPSDPtDfIXi0hhf96YrJzvH0jKrfoKKnFZbwJKCLfk3KZbRV_6z5YZHyqHjq4YiW6epcVe3UOTGWgzYXzCQ8BF2A9jLBNXYuAvdUOTuof4KKGQ5knB823CK6kaXwpLGlQYPY23erBMLyMiUJDPZ-mFotWZbx12d2IrtV7o/s2048/harbour%20swim2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1551" data-original-width="2048" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOiYNDgm3eJHCXmrlxf3DosPPSDPtDfIXi0hhf96YrJzvH0jKrfoKKnFZbwJKCLfk3KZbRV_6z5YZHyqHjq4YiW6epcVe3UOTGWgzYXzCQ8BF2A9jLBNXYuAvdUOTuof4KKGQ5knB823CK6kaXwpLGlQYPY23erBMLyMiUJDPZ-mFotWZbx12d2IrtV7o/s320/harbour%20swim2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The water was a little bumpy in the harbour!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGkyXvfdtiEjeiAvHUpFcziqqaTrvVVi8hwilC6CG3Ve74f21hmeFwQSj-5iCgtSyMEM0PrZjm-xeBYKeBgP6SVQAWI1ld8B0QQ46aPgtACab-oPyHdOe5XkKwUde8IrGfoUecsAC5yEQ03OAg2EhJcGe-Iaj21pQX_oLeBnTZSRsEiO-zlhxUS_-9Ues/s2048/harbour%20swim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGkyXvfdtiEjeiAvHUpFcziqqaTrvVVi8hwilC6CG3Ve74f21hmeFwQSj-5iCgtSyMEM0PrZjm-xeBYKeBgP6SVQAWI1ld8B0QQ46aPgtACab-oPyHdOe5XkKwUde8IrGfoUecsAC5yEQ03OAg2EhJcGe-Iaj21pQX_oLeBnTZSRsEiO-zlhxUS_-9Ues/s320/harbour%20swim.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopDdYk6QdGN2fcRpdXD4J6_ijynptuJpaAXmaU014683lEEg0y4cDfqbiMRw47yTHyPl1FWbkwRM76z9gGi-Fx2LDTJVkQalH0jDK_L6Kfsi-rHN_MPMGmIXPp1XangEOu_FTKIam8UuOKylZQNCB18P5CqyEJZxsCcy-lnCdZD9tP4PQSIRu20WZKN0/s2048/joan%20and%20colin%20at%20the%20track.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1259" data-original-width="2048" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopDdYk6QdGN2fcRpdXD4J6_ijynptuJpaAXmaU014683lEEg0y4cDfqbiMRw47yTHyPl1FWbkwRM76z9gGi-Fx2LDTJVkQalH0jDK_L6Kfsi-rHN_MPMGmIXPp1XangEOu_FTKIam8UuOKylZQNCB18P5CqyEJZxsCcy-lnCdZD9tP4PQSIRu20WZKN0/s320/joan%20and%20colin%20at%20the%20track.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Colin and Joan again</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Even just looking through my photos there made me want to be back in the w-a-r-m sun... I need to make a wee slide-show to music of all the photos.<div><br /></div><div>But meantime, since we've been back we've squeezed in 3 parkruns, and at every one my knee has been feeling better.</div><div><br /></div><div>We were out there this morning at Holyrood Park. A lot of the local parkruns were cancelled because of flooding and ice, but Holyrood went ahead. I felt the best I've felt post this last injury and the first 2 miles were the quickest - but I eased back on the downhill because I just couldn't face slipping and getting another injury - so I was 5 seconds slower than last parkrun - but I felt better. My weekly mileage has just gone over 20 miles - and I'm not really trying to push it up, but I do feel stronger. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvIaX0YqPqZgzUrnsrNl99pT8AdcwjPgMdna-h7ePv4cGniQsMJ5yQly7I2hyznXneBO0TTFdy3DCPIHi1afgknthX76HEwwcNethaDqb69vC_i66INSuNYn6KXUUHe9328n3zaEd-I4GyMh0vqi6d6mh7U1_xWalwDmf6hrZ5bfGpY8HrpsTdDV-nswg/s4786/parkrun002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4786" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvIaX0YqPqZgzUrnsrNl99pT8AdcwjPgMdna-h7ePv4cGniQsMJ5yQly7I2hyznXneBO0TTFdy3DCPIHi1afgknthX76HEwwcNethaDqb69vC_i66INSuNYn6KXUUHe9328n3zaEd-I4GyMh0vqi6d6mh7U1_xWalwDmf6hrZ5bfGpY8HrpsTdDV-nswg/s320/parkrun002.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGh10KAugFHBFgTR60SbuefIwFoJV7A-O1xduy65gaR-4uYmQYr_dql_fjjwsBYfVu4_w23YhDZX1Oqisw4TDeaLHvmVPSzHspVpIN1NnQXIATNpFjxWtBP1b93zMl0BbfhMGB4MmfyZzcLslSLM__4NQTYiENcoUW1eWdEko7MbqVtR-DjS3_xaueT4/s5152/parkrun003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3661" data-original-width="5152" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGh10KAugFHBFgTR60SbuefIwFoJV7A-O1xduy65gaR-4uYmQYr_dql_fjjwsBYfVu4_w23YhDZX1Oqisw4TDeaLHvmVPSzHspVpIN1NnQXIATNpFjxWtBP1b93zMl0BbfhMGB4MmfyZzcLslSLM__4NQTYiENcoUW1eWdEko7MbqVtR-DjS3_xaueT4/s320/parkrun003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtHACT_EzFnu_ktRaUQGT_nPdY7XiqNgDMI53qUzfeRoLz_g-YE-FFDyb34BFegtKWC8CJ6NyqcKsHJuqpBs3X0g7GKcloZwcbzLWK40yys4QyWw0v621fRHJ2aKvRae-2ulvgp0iYP6880xKGQMLbCy0pHGJqoljSIagJNptQdycmsEppBwt8doyXrhc/s4603/parkrun004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3619" data-original-width="4603" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtHACT_EzFnu_ktRaUQGT_nPdY7XiqNgDMI53qUzfeRoLz_g-YE-FFDyb34BFegtKWC8CJ6NyqcKsHJuqpBs3X0g7GKcloZwcbzLWK40yys4QyWw0v621fRHJ2aKvRae-2ulvgp0iYP6880xKGQMLbCy0pHGJqoljSIagJNptQdycmsEppBwt8doyXrhc/s320/parkrun004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So present at Holyrood this morning were some more Porties who I have not seen in a while. Shelagh was telling me she has osteoporosis so has to have some horrible infusion in a couple of months time - she was keen not to fall on the ice! Janis was telling me she's had a cardioversion for her atrial fibrillation and is feeling much better. I'm thinking that we have reached a certain age! I half-heard Shelagh saying that someone had compared the years of aging between something like 53 and 63 for women as running through an alley with a sniper shooting at you. I wish I'd got the detail. She said she thought it was just luck what happens to you. I find myself having this conversation with people more and more as we all devise our survival plans. I have no doubt there's an element of luck, but firmly believe you can stack the odds in your favour.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So this year wasn't as bad in reality as it was on paper. I wouldn't have been happy last January if you'd told me I'd be injured for much of the year and not run for at least 7 months. I didn't love it but I am stronger and I really enjoyed getting out on my bike. I'm really enjoying getting running again now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">According to Strava I swam 62 miles in the pool, which I find quite amazing. I'd like it if I could get back running a lot stronger. Already I find myself thinking I'd like to do a marathon - but I'm not going to push any mileage at the cost of being able to run at all. We shall see. I'd like to do a lot more on the bike this coming year too. But Jim doesn't always fix it for you the way you want him to, so we'll just have to see. :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Happy New year.</div><br /><div><br /></div>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-66699894173392244122023-11-18T14:25:00.000+00:002023-11-18T14:25:15.895+00:00Parkrun!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieO492QVXZUOcZMZ8u6vAb4cp5oyLt_6veDFcM_YFXM1M7hEkks6Lqyl0zlDPl7BfQ-KB6A_ytKI69pohSrDaRDL45fL3BH63DYarifCz_1CfKxLqfaNcuJ3-zDxgZLGHAjo8rVj-dRqnMfWA5lWazvcqyTIr7bf1x_1el5dI7TngvT6SJlpQXdKIIJUk/s5152/IMG_3395.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieO492QVXZUOcZMZ8u6vAb4cp5oyLt_6veDFcM_YFXM1M7hEkks6Lqyl0zlDPl7BfQ-KB6A_ytKI69pohSrDaRDL45fL3BH63DYarifCz_1CfKxLqfaNcuJ3-zDxgZLGHAjo8rVj-dRqnMfWA5lWazvcqyTIr7bf1x_1el5dI7TngvT6SJlpQXdKIIJUk/s320/IMG_3395.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqmyx5tocXnaYVw7dVsfXN9iRMTqDDXAM8uRufRU0w_e3qFgzwq-YvlIRHfTNWlBW086mqxY9QCd97m9uBkTLpu-kHQ2xbqWONARwl8Aye0LPujmlcWBYtFFPXKFmuxT4Pn5I0ZehD4kIkIpyYZuMSk3G9Wrw__DCVNN7gKzAphRUa1oAyv_9q1VfFMc/s5152/IMG_3394.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5152" data-original-width="3864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqmyx5tocXnaYVw7dVsfXN9iRMTqDDXAM8uRufRU0w_e3qFgzwq-YvlIRHfTNWlBW086mqxY9QCd97m9uBkTLpu-kHQ2xbqWONARwl8Aye0LPujmlcWBYtFFPXKFmuxT4Pn5I0ZehD4kIkIpyYZuMSk3G9Wrw__DCVNN7gKzAphRUa1oAyv_9q1VfFMc/s320/IMG_3394.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghcuRf_V2ItSnKMvXlebSYUJvaKMc3snUNPkQmTQcc1i-gVBapBTGr87wijQ_0lUSF9fkqb8dnnZ0VEisBe8nq4BGow20NXOqqyMBdtaijKnq-510yj8mfJD8kuUZyleNNXRKZNh5gAAhHdJSMgOnJpKCL_7JkH8ONJjjWairvlw3XfpW3SbbR6dkeueM/s5152/IMG_3391.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghcuRf_V2ItSnKMvXlebSYUJvaKMc3snUNPkQmTQcc1i-gVBapBTGr87wijQ_0lUSF9fkqb8dnnZ0VEisBe8nq4BGow20NXOqqyMBdtaijKnq-510yj8mfJD8kuUZyleNNXRKZNh5gAAhHdJSMgOnJpKCL_7JkH8ONJjjWairvlw3XfpW3SbbR6dkeueM/s320/IMG_3391.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkPHxnQ8YHW2oTnHQcLubC1MspCxkMUCrLh9OvitxPHw_mB_2fUilPoVS0WQEORzcprw4tKEWQh2DmYMqJJu575e2ykU5ufgBlKULx7qEPGoJznjkTiYWLqG2FBpya1IHAQv9IuuwgGBbkbtHyrOfQdxPvpGCCSLU20KG6XP_YdkUCsWXyDoZLloPRD9c/s5152/IMG_3390.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkPHxnQ8YHW2oTnHQcLubC1MspCxkMUCrLh9OvitxPHw_mB_2fUilPoVS0WQEORzcprw4tKEWQh2DmYMqJJu575e2ykU5ufgBlKULx7qEPGoJznjkTiYWLqG2FBpya1IHAQv9IuuwgGBbkbtHyrOfQdxPvpGCCSLU20KG6XP_YdkUCsWXyDoZLloPRD9c/s320/IMG_3390.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Holy cow! It's been a while.</p><p>I started doing little bits of running right at the end of September and have been playing it all by ear. Road runs felt worse than grass runs, so most of the runs have been on grass, up Arthur's Seat. I've been running 3 times a week at most and 5 miles at a time at most - at first the runs were more like half walking half running.</p><p>Then the 2nd week of October we both got Covid and I took two weeks completely off running. There's a spaciousness about having been away from running for so long because it's not like I'm scrambling to retain fitness - I'm starting from scratch so what's another week or 2's wait? It didn't really bother me.</p><p>My lungs have been irritable ever since and so I've not been pushing. At first my legs felt quite dead, but I'm slowly gaining a bit more spring. According to things I've been reading, as an older lady runner what I should be concentrating on is lifting heavy weights, doing HIIT and sprint sessions, and doing plyometrics. The trouble is when everything's held together with rubber bands and glue you're reluctant to bounce around too much.</p><p>I don't really know how to lift weights. I'm toying with doing a course at the Pleasance in January - which would mean getting up early on a Sunday morning to go - we'll see.</p><p>Plyometrics, flyometrics. We're not ready for that yet - springing, jumping, bounding and all that. Well actually I can bound a bit. Sometimes I do :-)</p><p>And intervals. I like intervals! I've been doing the odd test of speed, nothing as structured as an interval session. I do intervals indoors on my bike.</p><p>On top of this I've been trying to eat more protein - it's really not easy. The vegans say there's plenty protein in plants but when you look at the numbers there really isn't. What I'm going on is - again - advice to your older lady runner - we have more trouble maintaining and building muscle so we need to keep the numbers up - or that's what I'm giving a try at the moment anyway.</p><p>Lastly, well not lastly but even I'm getting bored, so I'm thinking about you - but another thing I'm trying which is most disgusting, is drinking fishy collagen powder because we lose collagen as we age and apparently it might help my body to repair skin, tendons, connective tissue. Seems worth a try - but honestly, two teaspoons of fishy powder in a glass of water - gag-tastic. I feel like Elizabeth Bathory drinking the blood of virgins to stay young. Fish virgins. You can get beefy collagen as well but I'm scared of mad cow disease.. If anyone out there said "too late", congratulations, you made an obvious joke.</p><p><br /></p><p>So anyway, what I really wanted to say was that I went and did a parkrun today. It just sort of hatched as an idea. I've been going a run at the same time as parkrun these last few weeks because then Peter and I are both as knackered as each other for the rest of Saturday. This morning I had the notion that maybe I should just run the parkrun. It was bucketing down when we got up and so an off-road run wasn't all that appealing. Arthur's Seat has been very squidgy. I didn't think it was likely and I didn't tell Peter but I took my card with me <i>just in case.</i></p><p>I had a good sized warm up and I didn't feel too bad so I went and stood a bit further back than usual at the start. The first mile was the trickiest because it's really congested towards the back and the last thing I wanted to do was a lot of braking and dodging around. Hell for knees.</p><p>But the field spread out and it was nice to not have that much pressure.</p><p>Running up hill on tarmac still feels a bit awkward on my knee, and steep downhill also needs adjustment - I was definitely compensating with my left leg - but the rest of the time I was running quite relaxed, and I don't think I made anything worse.</p><p>Getting to the bottom of the long descent feels like hell as they turn the gravity up to full again. </p><p>Looking at my Garmin I could see that sub-30 mins was still a possibility so I tried not to slow down. I got in just a handful of seconds under it.</p><p>Hurray! First parkrun since February. All those months of not being able to run! </p><p>So it was my worst time ever today and I got a right soaking but I was 3rd in my age category and I'm delighted to get round.</p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-23260907345669034552023-09-09T19:23:00.002+01:002023-09-09T19:31:11.876+01:00More bicycle adventures.<p> Since my last blog, which was written in August but not posted, my knee has been continuing to get better. I've had it a couple of walks up Arthur's Seat and each time it is less awkward on the uphills and the downhills. I tried a few more running steps but there's just a bit of a shock in it and since I've not run for so long it seems like I might as well wait a bit longer and see if we can get it so it actually doesn't hurt.</p><p>Meantime we are suddenly in the middle of a heatwave.</p><p>On Tuesday I was free and the sun was shining and the wind was coming from the East so it seemed like I needed to head East. I've been continually trying to reduce the amount of stuff I carry with me while still having enough to effect a self-rescue - like bike tools and a phone and at least one camera - and this time I also wanted to bring swimming stuff - just in case.</p><p>I set off using the start of the route I'd pinched off my friend Michael, which has quirky little alternatives which cut out some unpleasantness on the way out East. This route didn't go to Gifford but about 18 miles in I knew I was within a couple of miles of Gifford so diverted there to the Lanterne Rouge for a scone and a cup of coffee.</p><p>I go easy on the coffee these days so when I do drink it I feel it. It hit the spot. I think I thanked the woman who served me too vehemently because she looked a bit taken aback. The caffeine will make itself known. Now buoyed up with enthusiasm, I resumed my adventure.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvH7MsL0NUeAjBEcMfkqEF-lRarDyPjwbxUSjD85AhcJGF744MjfdyoGSkfA_Sfe6HVMjc6Oz7HfXcIwRsLQHLN_mmOsUPA6uOWwfP75lScIado4vflaCXHePZD-aOmQISMpUB2Ky3R6CNo4VmOinFyVno2TWmhWvwr1tJ7D8V0gFJvesB_fhzNb_-2IQ/s1920/019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvH7MsL0NUeAjBEcMfkqEF-lRarDyPjwbxUSjD85AhcJGF744MjfdyoGSkfA_Sfe6HVMjc6Oz7HfXcIwRsLQHLN_mmOsUPA6uOWwfP75lScIado4vflaCXHePZD-aOmQISMpUB2Ky3R6CNo4VmOinFyVno2TWmhWvwr1tJ7D8V0gFJvesB_fhzNb_-2IQ/s320/019.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf0F0o0z8MRRECL6BKywKFfNxPXwb_QHuRzZ8R6XzDNkuLlbYhd88AFAy2626ELOqtbmlmDXUZuNPzA3gWkXNkBdqQDxIhZAgMhjFRQSOsd3xc8zTGAqbpxB8QTmTdidEbRzneFAZfLnXciN9tM5uaX3maRGxvuWkSDWu3_7vE35dUkF-xOqZw0N9Blr0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf0F0o0z8MRRECL6BKywKFfNxPXwb_QHuRzZ8R6XzDNkuLlbYhd88AFAy2626ELOqtbmlmDXUZuNPzA3gWkXNkBdqQDxIhZAgMhjFRQSOsd3xc8zTGAqbpxB8QTmTdidEbRzneFAZfLnXciN9tM5uaX3maRGxvuWkSDWu3_7vE35dUkF-xOqZw0N9Blr0" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Eventual route was Gifford - Tyninghame - Gullane - home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Whether it was the coffee, or the bright sun with cool breezes, the beautiful scenery, the freedom, the whizz whizz whizz of my tyres on the road, or all of the above, I hit a delightful groove and was enjoying every minute.</div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhttzJMrA9KPO70dP7y6ts78-q-v9Y3TqTBVkkqxQdZhOxC4nEiaawg8Ojg_x3ou68us_HzlWwYqiKzFfHPTxt3cs8x8Vpq2DV-wTbkj-qZiHWCgfOJegSk0IA8cManPl2AcLCH3l5s2lGc4aaBzygnOpEP3tVnUnApV4LWtJKLiwl1JkEfiQH2XfF6J5M/s3000/020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1961" data-original-width="3000" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCrQvt9YtHnoG_LoDF8FY0bNY4SFtbKrLVqGNzbo4s5MVdKhdQp6USnyWy98fibw8ggqBHHX7Arxb1lHAaRPxDkqtjuO3C9HZ67Uy4_5QijhxzVIq0A_gv892juWIMSUCj2pXTDvIokJF1L4_ocuMN1w8misUN8BoHAUmYVc94bf9enaod-I8pE2MnCqU/s320/030.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I had promised myself a stop at the cafe at Tyninghame if I wanted because last time I did this part of the route I had a rather sad sandwich under a tree in the rain in East Linton and then just 5 miles down the road at Tyninghame people were sitting at tables drinking tea in the sunshine. This time I felt no need to stop though so pressed on. Instead of heading inland to avoid North Berwick I decided to go the coastal route through NB, Dirleton and then see if I could find the courage to go a swim at Gullane. I had packed my swimming stuff in an old bum bag and strapped it securely over my lock on the rack at the back and this arrangement worked very well.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7c2zjWsZJoVKG0PBes2uONbdUoLZipQexEBWjeEI82B33xvLGauOVrOBudA20mkJTKKKzpDbVZoYyv-ogqL1agjMyg1wxg4EAqHWf7mNDQEScCmZLQWdzjrBIp0S7o8FApQyfHARnTAhcZ1e-rRf5vtL3k4-j-KJ4kpjX475lD5oqhiieVAExZxTsYe0/s3000/031.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2207" data-original-width="3000" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7c2zjWsZJoVKG0PBes2uONbdUoLZipQexEBWjeEI82B33xvLGauOVrOBudA20mkJTKKKzpDbVZoYyv-ogqL1agjMyg1wxg4EAqHWf7mNDQEScCmZLQWdzjrBIp0S7o8FApQyfHARnTAhcZ1e-rRf5vtL3k4-j-KJ4kpjX475lD5oqhiieVAExZxTsYe0/s320/031.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbY5y3WJ7iJ-UAgiprsY9wYxU-oEeBTcVhbSXwMWWYf7zt0G85DzQPAHBJ4zAPKgqOWG46KnCeN1BU12x1kZawldWV4TFh81ojzsE1F49w1XBujwxbZo2ddmXCkn3k2Tv6rAybtBdXnhHXykZ_JEbcE7ixcn4goecWWl94BKEXR51aBMjPwD9sNrXQheI/s3000/033.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1957" data-original-width="3000" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbY5y3WJ7iJ-UAgiprsY9wYxU-oEeBTcVhbSXwMWWYf7zt0G85DzQPAHBJ4zAPKgqOWG46KnCeN1BU12x1kZawldWV4TFh81ojzsE1F49w1XBujwxbZo2ddmXCkn3k2Tv6rAybtBdXnhHXykZ_JEbcE7ixcn4goecWWl94BKEXR51aBMjPwD9sNrXQheI/s320/033.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hPb_3Z1CgRZ6mHgFao2UbDzapHWBfJzUUYJ1vkZsuuUVw3xLQWTnL0BPkT-jI-37acWXKS8JznMgBXBUQ_XrYe6FgI3J_kwUIrV1E_4lgs4FJb1Z5TZopIGAiwhJkIiZvoZOM22u6KDQ1QsAsitjMARQ3S5AzUNAPKb70NtZL23g-7u6gErgPyqHT0Y/s3000/037.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1789" data-original-width="3000" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hPb_3Z1CgRZ6mHgFao2UbDzapHWBfJzUUYJ1vkZsuuUVw3xLQWTnL0BPkT-jI-37acWXKS8JznMgBXBUQ_XrYe6FgI3J_kwUIrV1E_4lgs4FJb1Z5TZopIGAiwhJkIiZvoZOM22u6KDQ1QsAsitjMARQ3S5AzUNAPKb70NtZL23g-7u6gErgPyqHT0Y/s320/037.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5H1g-Ipuwr5AqF1HNipkjPVzuWUGPmTy-by2jTec66QWnvvst26ihg_0EBfkvXa0D7qerXK41AQY-LSI7_x5uy9RaDeZ-VJi_d9AQVh1hwOjk9OdMN1dgjeAB6lOk4qQgeh53iSfoCwyVZ4_HRtEDZB265DczojXG_HNvzDj3GIngv0LSwvqjI3UjMg/s3827/038.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3827" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5H1g-Ipuwr5AqF1HNipkjPVzuWUGPmTy-by2jTec66QWnvvst26ihg_0EBfkvXa0D7qerXK41AQY-LSI7_x5uy9RaDeZ-VJi_d9AQVh1hwOjk9OdMN1dgjeAB6lOk4qQgeh53iSfoCwyVZ4_HRtEDZB265DczojXG_HNvzDj3GIngv0LSwvqjI3UjMg/s320/038.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_CpF88mu0ZqdA5JU3WHVF_UgWTdBiIXlJ-khm6115aHlVfzYhCEKbD9i_8o06kaXglW8Tgg2Hwz6_gFjq9bCXhxPhHV3QeFIJHXaDeECPLiC37gbUzqG_CHOhHoVA_BBYC4XPfWEbQgCGpkxGt9HMe3pMYlVE5OJUieXziUPSD8qBni0-6v3bWPGjfyQ/s3000/039.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2211" data-original-width="3000" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_CpF88mu0ZqdA5JU3WHVF_UgWTdBiIXlJ-khm6115aHlVfzYhCEKbD9i_8o06kaXglW8Tgg2Hwz6_gFjq9bCXhxPhHV3QeFIJHXaDeECPLiC37gbUzqG_CHOhHoVA_BBYC4XPfWEbQgCGpkxGt9HMe3pMYlVE5OJUieXziUPSD8qBni0-6v3bWPGjfyQ/s320/039.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The logistics of trying to get changed at the beach using only the cover of one of these small camping towels without frightening any children were taxing and getting in the water was comparatively easy. The water was nice and it was a shame I couldn't really do it justice by going a proper swim but I was already pushing it. It just seemed like since we were going to have a pocket-sized summer squeezed into one unlikely week in September, I should do as many summer things as I could manage.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I had a tail-wind all the way home so the last 20 miles or so were a breeze. I arrived home feeling very pleased with myself with just shy of 65 miles under my belt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Since this had gone so well I decided it was time to tackle the Talla Circuit which I had again pinched from Stewart Whitlie off Strava. It had looked like a gnarly, hilly, scenic 50ish miler, starting and finishing in Peebles. I had been biding my time and waiting for the right moment to attempt it. There were a few practical problems to address before going - like emptying the back of the van which has been turning into a shed in the last year or so. Peter had a large moth trap stored in there! There were also old car parts which are probably no use but might be. Anyway, I did a bit of clearing, and Peter, rather reluctantly, agreed to come too. I have been feeling massively enthusiastic about the cycling just because it's been getting me out and about and discovering new places and it feels like I can finally get some of the buzz that I used to get out of running - but he still has running, so I can see his point. Also he's got an end of the summer, end of butterflies wistfulness about him at the moment. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Off we set yesterday morning with the bikes in the van and headed for Peebles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhixO-8B34b0OxlXnf2KUigbZfMUZdJlIGN-bRpEF7RBdARDzCkJD3-zR3zyR5kY1eccEDeAzCOxtMyXP-lcS-ZKkZU-Ftw3ZaDpAs-0U-QcKp07J_dlPF4Uk0u_mJ6YYdtTJGq33qeztRJJUC5nKvwc63noZWGUTBf2jemTO2jWR-aQai3IfF429vVPaU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhixO-8B34b0OxlXnf2KUigbZfMUZdJlIGN-bRpEF7RBdARDzCkJD3-zR3zyR5kY1eccEDeAzCOxtMyXP-lcS-ZKkZU-Ftw3ZaDpAs-0U-QcKp07J_dlPF4Uk0u_mJ6YYdtTJGq33qeztRJJUC5nKvwc63noZWGUTBf2jemTO2jWR-aQai3IfF429vVPaU" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Talla Circuit - a 49 mile circuit with a nasty 7% climb!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was after midday by the time we got parked up in Peebles and where it had been warm in Edinburgh, in Peebles it felt really hot. The sun was baking down. It had been a while since breakfast. It didn't feel like the optimal time to be setting out on an adventure, however set out we did. I also felt a bit responsible because I'd urged Peter to come with me telling him we'd have a great time, which is a dangerous thing to promise, because you never really can tell. I was reflecting a few days before that I've cycled close to 2000 miles this year and never got a puncture so - well getting punctures is just part of cycling, bound to happen. In the first 5 miles I noticed my front tyre was singing a different tune on the tarmac and then soon after that realised that was because it was going down...Boo... no need for panic because we had all the stuff with us - but it didn't seem like the best of omens. My tyres were hard to lever off and it was a bit of a faff. It was sweltering. After a bit of swearing and straining we were back on the road.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHvfqSzbk2Sv6nXAlzZQ3_DswIuA049JoNMwsjZqBq1Ec_jxBocjxK_XLcuOKhJTFwUqc_XxZpbSvPR8H6uSa-t-_2zfQp2N91W9ule0wo7mswNsUQJdIR94rh7GwEptnKTa-CUR6xNwGutjkEU4EfSlQLQIpYNL24Ng6Dbdr4jhUAlGn1p_XVVPcTx-0/s3000/050.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1989" data-original-width="3000" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHvfqSzbk2Sv6nXAlzZQ3_DswIuA049JoNMwsjZqBq1Ec_jxBocjxK_XLcuOKhJTFwUqc_XxZpbSvPR8H6uSa-t-_2zfQp2N91W9ule0wo7mswNsUQJdIR94rh7GwEptnKTa-CUR6xNwGutjkEU4EfSlQLQIpYNL24Ng6Dbdr4jhUAlGn1p_XVVPcTx-0/s320/050.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The road was busy-ish for a while and the heat was making it feel like hard going - but when we came to the turn off for the Talla Reservoir things improved immediately and substantially. I had never even heard of Talla before Stewart had posted his bike ride and it's always amazing to find something new quite close to home. Because of the sun, I guess, there was a fair bit of traffic - quite a few motorbikes, some cars, some motorhomes, one or two cyclists. I knew there was a HARD CLIMB ahead at some point but hadn't studied the map that hard and didn't have a sense of where it was going to be.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SrUvK0YH6d54fbGVrM5BbfD4y0fg8BeeVhgTCslKO9a-6_uwC0wkchOWRuUmbaMNcn9LI5XkPaCkc6FDZIbNWd__HJ82bF7-ILZj-e3vDNUTdjXCZXniU-XDQdJvQLa1CiTT5LM5qp4S0Uk2g1kkvodZdmfSgiyqq8av2vkdANWdK8fwzdJ_ILmLQ-0/s3000/051.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1716" data-original-width="3000" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SrUvK0YH6d54fbGVrM5BbfD4y0fg8BeeVhgTCslKO9a-6_uwC0wkchOWRuUmbaMNcn9LI5XkPaCkc6FDZIbNWd__HJ82bF7-ILZj-e3vDNUTdjXCZXniU-XDQdJvQLa1CiTT5LM5qp4S0Uk2g1kkvodZdmfSgiyqq8av2vkdANWdK8fwzdJ_ILmLQ-0/s320/051.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwy6mCzlHz44ZTBVZhUrVvuF8lPRK0zo3yXNn2D1_2ihbrrka2HzgbaZDcijsWjMLpJ3Wcw67oyjdK3t7v5tQ2ylp8DTgBra9mWW8Ht083fyi38DiiEfrrtnIJe-Ygl6b3240_wj3Z432Nbr_HU8YegWfJ8fjEFOhyZ0zIDZ7UPWV5-IHz_ugqPsQxug/s3000/052.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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He abandoned the climb because he wanted photos. I abandoned it because my legs wouldn't go round any faster on my granny ring,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdKBpx2kt8TK9RPR49Q8KtfYoYaycpIrS05P9QtELh4JN5XGW8nKVOSGUtGpmlx63lmMotAIQQ2V7mWEVtgfgQTYIYRc7foNbuL2UmVxEANqNC9nqhPv8kP50ehLi2sZOG_7psrL_ozDqxWMgbSvZUbqYe4Y9ZFLCKUKEFfa1dHA89lORLv_Eaebnwk4/s3000/063.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1721" data-original-width="3000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdKBpx2kt8TK9RPR49Q8KtfYoYaycpIrS05P9QtELh4JN5XGW8nKVOSGUtGpmlx63lmMotAIQQ2V7mWEVtgfgQTYIYRc7foNbuL2UmVxEANqNC9nqhPv8kP50ehLi2sZOG_7psrL_ozDqxWMgbSvZUbqYe4Y9ZFLCKUKEFfa1dHA89lORLv_Eaebnwk4/s320/063.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We saw the climb ahead with a silver car making its way really slowly down it. I wanted to wait until it was out the way so we'd have a clear run at it but Peter kind of urged me to get a move on and I caved. The guy in the car was really taking his time. Being a runner I don't have cleats on my bike or any of that jazz, but old fashioned cycle clips. I had to get past this boy in the silver car and he'd only left me 6 inches of tarmac and then he stopped his fecking car to say to me "I hope you've got plenty of gears on your bike". I didn't have space and took a foot out a clip in case I had to put a foot down. I got past him but I never got my foot back in the clip, which has a floppy strap and is a footer. All of this is my own fault but I was cursing the guy for getting in my way right at the start of the climb. It is steep right away and there was no time for trying to get my right foot back in the clip. I went down to my granny ring too quickly which was a mistake because then my little legs had to whizz round unfeasibly fast just to keep moving forwards, and I had to keep all my weight forwards so the front wheel didn't lift off. All of this and I was just hacked off. I got up the steepest part to a green grit bin at the side of the road but then pulled over as a girl on a white racer whizzed by me breezily saying it was a terrible hill. I was glad to see her boyfriend had a much tougher time and didn't even make it as far as the grit bin. If I'd thought I might have gone straight back and tried again because now I think I have to go back just to go all the way up the hill without stopping.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Anyway - it was good at the top. After a breather I carried on and it was never as bad again and then we were treated to a long, long, fast downhill past loads of bodies of water - whether they are connected or separate or all Talla or all have different names I don't know, and a better person would google it and find out. Maybe you are that better person! Then you could tell me.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXFu5CpgM_Ot7PFZGOC5Z0jY-OoKiJoLeX_B3r5tvj_ZilutoQ51tul2tE1eMsu0l3wOH9bWKzhy1FxvgBoxOWfuEuCqWi_oRyl7huAGgkYSLpL7czA-bj8SiMDRIzz3NCzB8MmjvO6kOwl8iQsU-Rt2nTMycH_bi4YY6Gyh-dnm_4ZE8XWXxgsasGW9M/s3000/064.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1686" data-original-width="3000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXFu5CpgM_Ot7PFZGOC5Z0jY-OoKiJoLeX_B3r5tvj_ZilutoQ51tul2tE1eMsu0l3wOH9bWKzhy1FxvgBoxOWfuEuCqWi_oRyl7huAGgkYSLpL7czA-bj8SiMDRIzz3NCzB8MmjvO6kOwl8iQsU-Rt2nTMycH_bi4YY6Gyh-dnm_4ZE8XWXxgsasGW9M/s320/064.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So anyway. It was hot and the middle section was great, but then getting back to Peebles started to feel hard. We were both pretty much out of fluids. We had brought sandwiches and ate them at the far end of this road. I didn't really have enough saliva.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After a while on a flattish road we turned right onto a long climbing road. Peter had said how hot and dry he was feeling and as we were passing a small river at the side of the road I expected him to call a halt but he didn't - but then he did, saying "I have to put my head under that water". I went and washed my face and put water on my legs but Peter went for a more immersive experience and one which seemed to revive him wonderfully. He was in a much better mood after that and then it helped that shortly after this we rounded a corner and there was a long, long scenic and pretty downhill. There were a few more bumps in the road before finally arriving back at Peebles but I've forgotten them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheP1zmNw0kLaIWnnhWUEu-w1tmhU_MArusABI_vA6qAwiwrNH5ci5iT4M32wesw4powxY9H2PopN1cRl-t6cfaDzsFsbPq5CdHhMaHSavE5lyfXSkYF-NDjVeh-8oFt7oRpDW0e8AbrETxyfuULu7QZEFjpLe6inmR_9Xjgqn9_IQQgb656XubNvdDV7M/s5338/065.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5338" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheP1zmNw0kLaIWnnhWUEu-w1tmhU_MArusABI_vA6qAwiwrNH5ci5iT4M32wesw4powxY9H2PopN1cRl-t6cfaDzsFsbPq5CdHhMaHSavE5lyfXSkYF-NDjVeh-8oFt7oRpDW0e8AbrETxyfuULu7QZEFjpLe6inmR_9Xjgqn9_IQQgb656XubNvdDV7M/s320/065.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-YabypWwAHQAa4BRVmyj4Z8Y0r2WXqvSFMuSP64Wi4q877hZ2cJL-ecbUGnKzAKfA5Gpe-xIp9aioLccr54-6OymUdKCr7VBo-2bdc-7cVE8zL0pzqvuX0RVl0krMynu-pXf7k7D7EVpfRmcV54rbmvzI146r4IZ6q2IhPQ4ooUXRH2f1XNvJWiFtkU/s3000/066.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2110" data-original-width="3000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-YabypWwAHQAa4BRVmyj4Z8Y0r2WXqvSFMuSP64Wi4q877hZ2cJL-ecbUGnKzAKfA5Gpe-xIp9aioLccr54-6OymUdKCr7VBo-2bdc-7cVE8zL0pzqvuX0RVl0krMynu-pXf7k7D7EVpfRmcV54rbmvzI146r4IZ6q2IhPQ4ooUXRH2f1XNvJWiFtkU/s320/066.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This snake was at the side of the road and we stopped to investigate, but it was dead. I would guess it was sunning itself and got run over. Such a shame. We cursed all the drivers.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg11xNPkemaTO0Q4_cYZPCwagcGNRy9qdW4-O4FgchKk9EVExyBE_yfFsSXA0Fbov_8h-IbYPKZOKiCPijMLTHlymIfPfh35WH62i2pZ29QDUS7KBrObgjXZzq-KrPyHtAu0xYSaQhWN-CtRweWypbQ1vXNCPkgMD_xJLXS9r1Ilip_yn-V937Cis1ud3Q/s3000/067.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1709" data-original-width="3000" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg11xNPkemaTO0Q4_cYZPCwagcGNRy9qdW4-O4FgchKk9EVExyBE_yfFsSXA0Fbov_8h-IbYPKZOKiCPijMLTHlymIfPfh35WH62i2pZ29QDUS7KBrObgjXZzq-KrPyHtAu0xYSaQhWN-CtRweWypbQ1vXNCPkgMD_xJLXS9r1Ilip_yn-V937Cis1ud3Q/s320/067.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At last, back at the van. I would like to do this route again on a cool morning.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p><br /></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-25327284627483866312023-09-09T17:58:00.000+01:002023-09-09T17:58:13.346+01:00Bicycle Adventures<p> Well what am I going to call my blog? Nearly 6 months of not running is not very catchy. My knee seems a good bit better, thanks for asking; it looks nearly normal. Somedays it's worse and some days it's better. Steep inclines aren't good. I tried a wee run a few weeks back but it was a no-go - hot and sore inside.</p><p>So anyway I've been getting out on my bike, and have had some good adventures. Probably the best was at the end of July. I'd seen a route on Strava that Stewart Whitlie had done, with some stiff looking climbs, and for some reason I wanted to do it. It's a loop starting near Gifford that goes through Garvald and then up into the Lammermuirs, over the moors, on a wee thin strip of tarmac. People call it Redstone Rigg I think but I don't know exactly what part that is. The whole day out, including getting to and returning from Gifford, would be in the region of 66 miles which was a jump up from anything I'd been doing - so this one day I thought I would go and just have a look at the start of it.</p><p>I cycled to Gifford and stopped there at the Lantern Rouge for a cup of tea and a scone. It was raining a bit and it was after lunchtime, so I thought it would maybe be empty - but actually all the tables were in use when I went in - but there was just one man sitting at the big table next to the counter so I sat down there.</p><p>I was going to have a look at my phone as we do in these modern times but my table mate was in the mood for a chit-chat. He was doing a bit of driving for people on golfing holidays so was at a loose end in the middle part of the day. They give you free coffee top ups in the Lantern Rouge, so you need to watch out. I was drinking tea but my table-mate was drinking coffee and accepted a top up without much thought. He went from telling me the odd tale to giving me a barrage of anecdotes about golfing tours. It was getting later and I needed to get going so I was waiting for a break in the conversation to say so, but it wasn't coming. Eventually I put my hand up and said "Right I have to leave now." My head was spinning by the time I left. I bet he was awake all night.</p><p>I had meant to think about what I was going to do next while I was in the cafe but I hadn't had a moment to think, so now I just went and started the route. The start of it was a commiting downhill into Garvald and although I told myself I could always back out, I think at that point I knew I was going to just go for the whole route. There was a steep, steep climb back up out of Garvald - so steep that I didn't want to use my granny ring as I knew it would be nearly impossible to get going again if I had to stop for a car or anything. Anyway, you don't need to know every detail. It was very steep and then up and down and then at the far end of this road you join another road near Whiteadder Reservoir and head back for Gifford, and that is a longer, but less steep hill. Maybe it's even Redstone Rigg!</p><p>I was in my happy place on this second hill. I like a long hill. It focuses the mind. The sun even came out for a while as I neared the summit.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbbdBrU7GuqNb5Q2oUCO-DidTGKazBx6wIokroqka-46qFyBHyub9UvF_7wSWB1VOPJdAiAfF1nmDKswnr4sLmpGpZkS-e_JCBTvKYsxj12ofOn16wyzzTANu_Hz-cctCrw1dvkOFy0t1Q4NCD2zOYjJfQE8lFlL-LHUYOJNTltiMQ1PpgQm0yTfCVS34/s5171/190.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5171" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbbdBrU7GuqNb5Q2oUCO-DidTGKazBx6wIokroqka-46qFyBHyub9UvF_7wSWB1VOPJdAiAfF1nmDKswnr4sLmpGpZkS-e_JCBTvKYsxj12ofOn16wyzzTANu_Hz-cctCrw1dvkOFy0t1Q4NCD2zOYjJfQE8lFlL-LHUYOJNTltiMQ1PpgQm0yTfCVS34/s320/190.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEB5hXschr_yU79OOdr51DFiPvlqXABtIcJL_gBc6N63JASdLi-IFWI3JD3ywiPAwUdxoT93OhKJtuAVxBnNDUron2n-mw89KVoBSryzc8mxjBH1y3vdAcOuEai1LFB-D8TSshZqU7ghcDtNE798GkuFJYLowQvvQHI5lSz89GIsBLpaAy_9De-FM2G8/s3000/189.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="3000" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEB5hXschr_yU79OOdr51DFiPvlqXABtIcJL_gBc6N63JASdLi-IFWI3JD3ywiPAwUdxoT93OhKJtuAVxBnNDUron2n-mw89KVoBSryzc8mxjBH1y3vdAcOuEai1LFB-D8TSshZqU7ghcDtNE798GkuFJYLowQvvQHI5lSz89GIsBLpaAy_9De-FM2G8/s320/189.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhV1XB2bHrKo1udve02u_zKmrHjrW_rIlzeQ9vfFuyKysrtYilr7Tv1ngWlkQpY_9OyFGDeASO7EIIkyAKDzXy9e9tpUbWC7DAKm9HNkKHQSVd8u7jtSX_QPhsv64ZL_gGrBK637EkWPqzcCVLIj2EvURVtCxORkAQGxzCY5TQC2pJIMdL-hF25UokweM/s3000/186.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="3000" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhV1XB2bHrKo1udve02u_zKmrHjrW_rIlzeQ9vfFuyKysrtYilr7Tv1ngWlkQpY_9OyFGDeASO7EIIkyAKDzXy9e9tpUbWC7DAKm9HNkKHQSVd8u7jtSX_QPhsv64ZL_gGrBK637EkWPqzcCVLIj2EvURVtCxORkAQGxzCY5TQC2pJIMdL-hF25UokweM/s320/186.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjcLuF4bV9bD5TbNmM7S-cA_p6NOCGBVwl7hlEwwGS1r8SALRhox_55gaUeCJGfCBf-jkF0FWOfmZOsusf5adjPIEkVErG35VWP3gldf2CXzFfyJwPCRWLiEpWg-X-ZamraxyCLG8EyMjE7OAknWmZCX_LYMBbL28hsdGhDyipjgocpiId_GNwQWDZq6c/s3000/184.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="3000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjcLuF4bV9bD5TbNmM7S-cA_p6NOCGBVwl7hlEwwGS1r8SALRhox_55gaUeCJGfCBf-jkF0FWOfmZOsusf5adjPIEkVErG35VWP3gldf2CXzFfyJwPCRWLiEpWg-X-ZamraxyCLG8EyMjE7OAknWmZCX_LYMBbL28hsdGhDyipjgocpiId_GNwQWDZq6c/s320/184.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">All of this was followed by plummeting descents that you could really get some good speed up on IF you didn't put your brakes on. I put my brakes on though. Accounts of why that is vary according to who you ask. I say I'm just being cautious but Peter says I'm a pussy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxA0O9e8XnHHuPaokxs8fn-O33wkmOmPc6qW-QS_UZZHMyudaFlCBpOcMVFarYSemF4Wtgmw05oTa6PQPev-ek82N4DsJym3VW46E957CCqz1lakj5Mu-d7zHODICgtYxqrV7CD-emXqjume7G7NxWQXhYxMNhBCnHDgMaWJxAayDIgfuu68zzQyCCmN8/s3000/191.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1727" data-original-width="3000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxA0O9e8XnHHuPaokxs8fn-O33wkmOmPc6qW-QS_UZZHMyudaFlCBpOcMVFarYSemF4Wtgmw05oTa6PQPev-ek82N4DsJym3VW46E957CCqz1lakj5Mu-d7zHODICgtYxqrV7CD-emXqjume7G7NxWQXhYxMNhBCnHDgMaWJxAayDIgfuu68zzQyCCmN8/s320/191.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There was a stiffish headwind as I headed home, and, just after East Linton what had been a light shower of rain turned into a deluge and continued like that for over an hour. This actually felt quite helpful. It distracted from tired legs and bum ache and made a big day seem even more epic. I had a good jacket and it was still quite warm, so it wasn't really a problem. I arrived home eventually, very hungry, and delighted to have had an actual adventure instead of going boring cycles in town or going to the swimming pool. Maybe the worst thing about having a knee injury and not being able to run is that I feel so limited. So it was nice to push the limits a bit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Another day I went up into the Pentlands. I hadn't been there for ages and really enjoyed the scenery, - if not riding over the horrible chuckies between the Balerno side and the Howe. I have never been brave as far as mountain biking goes but now I am much worse. Ever since I came off my bike on the ice at the beginning of last year and stoved my ribs in AGAIN I'm just - well I'm just really against coming off my bike. If I did it more, maybe I would get better. My current MTB has 29 inch wheels and even though I really like it, I find it harder to handle than my old 26 inch one. I really need to keep my weight over the saddle if the ground is at all treacherous or it goes sideways really easily - and me with it. As I made my way at a glacial pace over the flipping chuckies I was remembering things I used to know like that you need to choose your line and then commit to it rather than just constantly try to stay out of trouble or see what could go wrong. It might be that that also applies to life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLrSxvOsz4KjmSrDhUbUo3zKoZhX7REe11ZgkWL-zns_jgOvLy5xhwOslStqTNJTeKP44wnwsQsRu3m-GFzuBL37UCe1Csjwx9efXRKGr8-MX4xyfXws7QPzSamOoCI5U01V2cDqkzVBuSz35PssidlYOpUcV5iIDw7TUvtX606UIG7aWzkbY44wLT_pc/s3000/010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1722" data-original-width="3000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLrSxvOsz4KjmSrDhUbUo3zKoZhX7REe11ZgkWL-zns_jgOvLy5xhwOslStqTNJTeKP44wnwsQsRu3m-GFzuBL37UCe1Csjwx9efXRKGr8-MX4xyfXws7QPzSamOoCI5U01V2cDqkzVBuSz35PssidlYOpUcV5iIDw7TUvtX606UIG7aWzkbY44wLT_pc/s320/010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWm_fl9K0GHer9gkFA_uSTeJY5FffxH0WxMTutQNNdTiB0R1Y2K0wWGBcxnEYmgaZsU4lhtbKCSYaRpyjQBUcaB2nSjZSUqTGnRpGRZiJHiFD9yG-e4z57vu0oU1yrlQJd_aaqi8bw5feDOxBgIqcM8ixOWGc9qcYoFmvIgvuhlRnocVAVe1BdCyH1dwY/s3000/011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1840" data-original-width="3000" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWm_fl9K0GHer9gkFA_uSTeJY5FffxH0WxMTutQNNdTiB0R1Y2K0wWGBcxnEYmgaZsU4lhtbKCSYaRpyjQBUcaB2nSjZSUqTGnRpGRZiJHiFD9yG-e4z57vu0oU1yrlQJd_aaqi8bw5feDOxBgIqcM8ixOWGc9qcYoFmvIgvuhlRnocVAVe1BdCyH1dwY/s320/011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_iXAb8hOQGwqVjSAPiqexpGq1MS_-3sgnhpiT5JycFd9U_7IwH0FtxvtoAhote5SmDxMclxjITB4DEEzbWfb-rblv37z4jPW7UnfqJTfkSlyILkeCn8Wb_zFOixOaUc9CkgfZ4yB0JyvntaTI47X865bamcAU64A3Q5GOM_te1yL48pyzUtKW6aJOOo/s3000/013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="3000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_iXAb8hOQGwqVjSAPiqexpGq1MS_-3sgnhpiT5JycFd9U_7IwH0FtxvtoAhote5SmDxMclxjITB4DEEzbWfb-rblv37z4jPW7UnfqJTfkSlyILkeCn8Wb_zFOixOaUc9CkgfZ4yB0JyvntaTI47X865bamcAU64A3Q5GOM_te1yL48pyzUtKW6aJOOo/s320/013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNhcGpbgyTEttIUy1ICmOBlsKTF3tynjhL2UGesut2RSwHrFCfZHEPb2TBAU7F360WuNNPQvFVD7Mo-zLWx2yTmcn7mfP2mrzlG1cykkyLOO-DNF3QQl6d4VDrhYPR_lEUvU4swPjw6djI6EGx-PY2_aqn727NNvsjSRP4WQdIpcEv7robZjB5nggcFE/s3000/014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1832" data-original-width="3000" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNhcGpbgyTEttIUy1ICmOBlsKTF3tynjhL2UGesut2RSwHrFCfZHEPb2TBAU7F360WuNNPQvFVD7Mo-zLWx2yTmcn7mfP2mrzlG1cykkyLOO-DNF3QQl6d4VDrhYPR_lEUvU4swPjw6djI6EGx-PY2_aqn727NNvsjSRP4WQdIpcEv7robZjB5nggcFE/s320/014.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Eventualmente I came out the other side and was rewarded by a good long swoop down to Flotterstone on proper tarmac.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In between cycles I have still spent a fair bit of time hanging about in cemeteries in the undergrowth taking pictures of things. It's interesting how these new elements of life from the pandemic have stayed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4AHuOKp_uVzfT0XHdWlsMXG5xZmnNwh8RidKBBSaGIlOSX1RUZAX060mJVR72t75397AtyOV8t5q2op9bX4VICjjyG7Dfret1FH5nNplQs3HUsIlP02Zy8dLSNF2nfuaif2tXhga0p3ggeluQp_Sri0qH1JMFTAtq7H8OlknjsHNLLjQ9D5PjRRDK9g/s3000/0030.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1869" data-original-width="3000" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4AHuOKp_uVzfT0XHdWlsMXG5xZmnNwh8RidKBBSaGIlOSX1RUZAX060mJVR72t75397AtyOV8t5q2op9bX4VICjjyG7Dfret1FH5nNplQs3HUsIlP02Zy8dLSNF2nfuaif2tXhga0p3ggeluQp_Sri0qH1JMFTAtq7H8OlknjsHNLLjQ9D5PjRRDK9g/s320/0030.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatYE9qucIngcC9ZAbkUWGT4IZOCsVUMUBrzbbJdFYITxryf6Tg6EjFRm2_L88-E6kkOZFV3Yg2pxN4u5M-V8sx6nXxePxBIq7bz_Te7aMYzL2HWUGZubShjspOy14kgtCUG2Eqvj4iZzO5FrEaUvbosZMWeyd7Y-zHCA2_zaJoeZ51GyIY2HhNSzLuZk/s3000/051.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One day there was a strong west wind blowing but I had a free day and wanted to get out on my bike. I'm getting to know East Lothian better but I hate setting off on a cycle or a run or anything with the hardest part later on - so I'd rather run uphill first and then downhill - and if there's to be a headwind, I'd rather cycle into it first and then get blown home than vice-versa. Using this logic I thought I should go West - but where to go?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Well, when I cycled up into the Pentlands the last time I'd gone all the way up the Water of Leith path, which I hadn't done for quite a few years - and in the latter stages noticed that on the cycle path signs it was signposting somewhere called Kirknewton a bit further on from Balerno. I googled it and made up a path from Kirknewton - assuming that it must be an okay route - through what seemed like quieter roads and over to Kirkliston. I seemed to remember that decades ago I'd cycled on a cycle path from South Queensferry to Kirkliston - so I thought that from Kirliston I'd get the cycle path to SQ and use the west wind to blow me home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">All this didn't really go according to plan though. There was a signposted cycle route but it was really confusingly signposted, or else I was just being dim that day. I had back-up things - so I had printed out a google map and I had my phone with me, but quite a few times I couldn't figure out what direction I should be going in. I don't know West Lothian very well, which was part of it, and I have Broxburn and Bathgate and Livingstone all muddled up in my head as cross-country venues somewhere along the A8.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpeVs0J-tbbXY8dBhCpW2EnoC1M-UAWuczEvLriai0OLomlwjKxhkjwVH1gvEJjJSGg8crj3LUmsQt_aaI7rPfybqSTBj6QZy6hIAER-kbwa0WsAh1GRd3pCO7Yq2ltTMG9zjM58xCQL-nyGw2yLKItL-QcK89r0gGxVpEQkD7jLim3FidS11QbVc0oAI/s3000/lost%20in%20west%20lothian.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2606" data-original-width="3000" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpeVs0J-tbbXY8dBhCpW2EnoC1M-UAWuczEvLriai0OLomlwjKxhkjwVH1gvEJjJSGg8crj3LUmsQt_aaI7rPfybqSTBj6QZy6hIAER-kbwa0WsAh1GRd3pCO7Yq2ltTMG9zjM58xCQL-nyGw2yLKItL-QcK89r0gGxVpEQkD7jLim3FidS11QbVc0oAI/s320/lost%20in%20west%20lothian.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1FKsheY94P4dAk5yZvkU1MkBSby2EKrVQAi_PMUpmgy03gYJmkebSw3zUNwD5x3f7uF2svdsNx4D3eZiaxaOzaCPFCLqDYqgTN9ildUONbZoWKzEi1Dq3DDxwo5Gl9mZii6PCRQcPu4k2vwmMzbITh63PlY6n0TZSEbw9bbDdJsEWJkqAmJ4zoeotUFA/s3000/091.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1659" data-original-width="3000" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1FKsheY94P4dAk5yZvkU1MkBSby2EKrVQAi_PMUpmgy03gYJmkebSw3zUNwD5x3f7uF2svdsNx4D3eZiaxaOzaCPFCLqDYqgTN9ildUONbZoWKzEi1Dq3DDxwo5Gl9mZii6PCRQcPu4k2vwmMzbITh63PlY6n0TZSEbw9bbDdJsEWJkqAmJ4zoeotUFA/s320/091.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This was in Almondell Country Park which sounds nice but by this time to be honest I hated it. It's a horrible country park. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4urw0Gk52mjzFM-Nfd067LnoTMdHiMB5hHnwjXyPDMxL3qxLpaN1SSTS6NlodGtisEIxitPPaDqq7DOmw6a0Qef2IlgARQnRInb3K2CLyEHenmZTE9_r-EZUftRRIDP338muyKzCOsmwjuGVTbzqAzyR-ZSt7Hwoxy1_sk70hU00EWBe23epeHNUKtF8/s3000/092.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1672" data-original-width="3000" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4urw0Gk52mjzFM-Nfd067LnoTMdHiMB5hHnwjXyPDMxL3qxLpaN1SSTS6NlodGtisEIxitPPaDqq7DOmw6a0Qef2IlgARQnRInb3K2CLyEHenmZTE9_r-EZUftRRIDP338muyKzCOsmwjuGVTbzqAzyR-ZSt7Hwoxy1_sk70hU00EWBe23epeHNUKtF8/s320/092.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I ended up in a ridiculously bad mood. I cycled along the pavement for a good distance on an A road - can't remember which one - the wind was behind me so I was making good time but - well it was on a busy A road. When I did get to Kirkliston I didn't have any sense of where the cycle path was or if I'd actually just dreamed it up, so I took a road for Cramond I'd never been on before. Towards the Cramond end I was recognising things - like the airport - and then noticed that there was a sign for Craigie's Farm cafe up a hill. This seemed like a good idea and I cycled up the hill - but I thought it was going to be quite a small place but actually it was pretty big and there were loads of cars and nowhere to put my bike that I could see and continuing in my bad mood I just cycled off again and went home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I think it was this cycle that made me think I want one of those proper GPS things for the bike. My phone is £100 phone and it can tell you where you are but it's not great at helping you get where you need to go - and I can download routes on my Garmin, but I have to know the whole route in advance. I wanted something better than that! So I splashed out a bit of cash on a Garmin Edge 1030 plus and then didn't use it for a wee while and wondered if I was a pillock.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAil5P-sV30-I9Qt303YhtehDkkwYt6oP4qaszpeLHtvEmbz95FyWIDv7Y0Mqh2t_3U2QR2hBnuP-zWAJDgNPOX8TUntWjluwCzNoyvdcAZYMEhp_hVfiyqJafh4eJinyvCTekec7jR_kPvy-j-KqX-rc2lXIr9UZDJaQdKb48lTv3_cBr-Wtr_QKQ32Y/s3000/095.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1727" data-original-width="3000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAil5P-sV30-I9Qt303YhtehDkkwYt6oP4qaszpeLHtvEmbz95FyWIDv7Y0Mqh2t_3U2QR2hBnuP-zWAJDgNPOX8TUntWjluwCzNoyvdcAZYMEhp_hVfiyqJafh4eJinyvCTekec7jR_kPvy-j-KqX-rc2lXIr9UZDJaQdKb48lTv3_cBr-Wtr_QKQ32Y/s320/095.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's been a rainy August. I took this while Peter and I were hiding under a tree in the cemetery in a downpour.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIDc29Qcwpt-oxE-I4zxgU38uaaHtFqtdOwQMz51jpJxBnNXXOYg9kpFc7URCiB-Emp1iP8l7n2AYtOjrXF3UYRi4PNXqKtG8VRgQl4A20sDP_S_MpaoKbaZHbZdrLs0MqjrcIXQ2pfgDbYA-Mr0dX4mcLU2u7mKabjBvBigkgX6Jr7eYiB4WvaM1T_c/s3000/105.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="3000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIDc29Qcwpt-oxE-I4zxgU38uaaHtFqtdOwQMz51jpJxBnNXXOYg9kpFc7URCiB-Emp1iP8l7n2AYtOjrXF3UYRi4PNXqKtG8VRgQl4A20sDP_S_MpaoKbaZHbZdrLs0MqjrcIXQ2pfgDbYA-Mr0dX4mcLU2u7mKabjBvBigkgX6Jr7eYiB4WvaM1T_c/s320/105.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Another trip that I did with Peter was a couple of Mondays ago. I just had a bit of work in the morning but then was free for the rest of the day. We decided to go to Big Saltoun Wood as we hadn't been in a while. I think Peter was hoping there would be a new batch of Commas. The weather was a bit iffy to start with and it seemed like maybe it would be a wash-out, but then as we came into West Saltoun off the cycle path we were arrested by a Buddleia bush FULL of butterflies which raised the vibrations wonderfully!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0gK1El5TQ-Qq7VZNxx5h4dDDfxiI2ZXQD4apS-MY1Mzh8NTxlp_WQDJC0Q-ON8QUBEcmLw3gja-BgvXZVXaIReyKVzlKeKPo1Z8aFudFCBFErgRLsyangaNzMxo6UinOXRHxa3rdWLJPMZAhfSordLivzNjnI5mghSRJuKOjSJ3HGemoqC4NezDU3_qo/s3000/112.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1923" data-original-width="3000" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0gK1El5TQ-Qq7VZNxx5h4dDDfxiI2ZXQD4apS-MY1Mzh8NTxlp_WQDJC0Q-ON8QUBEcmLw3gja-BgvXZVXaIReyKVzlKeKPo1Z8aFudFCBFErgRLsyangaNzMxo6UinOXRHxa3rdWLJPMZAhfSordLivzNjnI5mghSRJuKOjSJ3HGemoqC4NezDU3_qo/s320/112.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhioV5tFGXqO5MNCKSj6hKUpYbaybFzdfxp-aPnZHteXPKsdX578uMDQmCGWF3GRfY3hy4z2nT07NVu5kgX08hPcVCfxB68PtXtQp8z7y8209hQfQTEcPlulxoidCkg14G5_HUwvACuM0qg8GtfFpttZ5MW62VzpQuYD3pcqVp7RnM0ocq2kFwgbdMRNns/s3000/113.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2450" data-original-width="3000" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhioV5tFGXqO5MNCKSj6hKUpYbaybFzdfxp-aPnZHteXPKsdX578uMDQmCGWF3GRfY3hy4z2nT07NVu5kgX08hPcVCfxB68PtXtQp8z7y8209hQfQTEcPlulxoidCkg14G5_HUwvACuM0qg8GtfFpttZ5MW62VzpQuYD3pcqVp7RnM0ocq2kFwgbdMRNns/s320/113.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikzrm5-ukvDjEpFPxduD94MvIGvVfP9Uw_-61HjP3a0ZSMyQfOsfV26ZkNPxZX94JgSq0s8Jn7mGINW0ifkWE3gpZI20LMDtCHITuexAvpCKY0v21ZN0OxOcDd_sE9cjIRLBlAHOtoXIDMx2u-v78I14CIkiFwf1yKQGyvvrvCT6Mn-hUWbBN5KsGgx2c/s3000/114.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2291" data-original-width="3000" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikzrm5-ukvDjEpFPxduD94MvIGvVfP9Uw_-61HjP3a0ZSMyQfOsfV26ZkNPxZX94JgSq0s8Jn7mGINW0ifkWE3gpZI20LMDtCHITuexAvpCKY0v21ZN0OxOcDd_sE9cjIRLBlAHOtoXIDMx2u-v78I14CIkiFwf1yKQGyvvrvCT6Mn-hUWbBN5KsGgx2c/s320/114.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5-60dMOQFWkYeMyG95eEBEmNrNyftPrbBU5XNeIkc2tAr78Fj1m2_MuPQGJm8O2NIgBsfrSqNaRZ4r8fAGZUL0BRCe8C30fur29dOT6j1JFPJUPY7dNaxh2tvaWzkeudGbohq0Gu3wANlOj69dQnzvpM3WhSBYE1Qlba-q_PVAMIIC7DsE2DpHIQ1hP0/s3000/115.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2150" data-original-width="3000" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5-60dMOQFWkYeMyG95eEBEmNrNyftPrbBU5XNeIkc2tAr78Fj1m2_MuPQGJm8O2NIgBsfrSqNaRZ4r8fAGZUL0BRCe8C30fur29dOT6j1JFPJUPY7dNaxh2tvaWzkeudGbohq0Gu3wANlOj69dQnzvpM3WhSBYE1Qlba-q_PVAMIIC7DsE2DpHIQ1hP0/s320/115.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgohMDoFF_FHtziK6-93jy3aGQ2rIYjy1xv0hhkZfVtq6HC5fGS9yJAlS3-gahaIgomeQ81x_JpBRaezSgwwWrgR5oXArw0WidnZMNjny8W05gCQ8XLbqIMQ9QHIWqUvUmXmOfhuGEE5jIaK_94ZSfczOooPPIGhEV8Uv1pBLtkZdXnY-dgrcN5gO7wzao/s3000/121.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2143" data-original-width="3000" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgohMDoFF_FHtziK6-93jy3aGQ2rIYjy1xv0hhkZfVtq6HC5fGS9yJAlS3-gahaIgomeQ81x_JpBRaezSgwwWrgR5oXArw0WidnZMNjny8W05gCQ8XLbqIMQ9QHIWqUvUmXmOfhuGEE5jIaK_94ZSfczOooPPIGhEV8Uv1pBLtkZdXnY-dgrcN5gO7wzao/s320/121.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After that we went on to the woods where there was a new emergence of Peacock Butterflies, all pristine and perfect. 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Other things were happening. But the other day I pinched a friend Michael's route off Strava which was part known and part not known routes in East Lothian. I thought this was the best way of getting to know how to work it as I'd never be truly lost and yet I would see if it would take me anywhere good. I had an inauspicious start getting a soaking in the first 10 miles from which I never really dried out - and although I could get the map up on the GPS it kept beeping at me and I didn't know why. I realised 10 miles in that it was warning me I hadn't started recording. I didn't necessarily want to record as I still had my other Garmin on my wrist but once I'd put it on it was happy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Long story short - it was great! The route was 60 miles and I was thinking I wouldn't necessarily do the whole thing, but one thing led to another and I did. It really seems like a game changer. 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(Time for tea.)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-682553676207620172023-07-22T16:19:00.001+01:002023-07-22T16:19:08.428+01:00Five months of not running....<p> Ahah, a blog about not running? How very Zen. There are a lot of things I haven't been doing apart from running, but you have to focus. As Facebook wisdom has it - you can't hug all the cats.</p><p>So how's the knee? </p><p>Well, whisper it, but it seems a wee bit better. I don't have to be so careful with it. I still have to think about stairs, steep inclines and declines, and it's still swollen, so I'm not running. I can't be bothered doing the re-injury thing, it takes too much of a toll. I've kind of accepted I'll need to start from scratch whenever and if ever I do get going again.</p><p>Which raises a question; what is scratch? How do you start running again? I was 25 last time I started running, and I'm guessing, but I was probably more resilient then than I am now. When I was 25 I was doing a Masters in IT at Stirling Uni because there weren't many jobs and the Scottish Govt was handing out funding, and one of the guys on my course was an ex PE teacher. Calum gave me this advice. "Just keep running for 20 minutes at first and you'll get fitter". He was right. It was terrible at first. The terrible thing was the breathing. I walked a lot and swam kind of regularly and had a bike so it didn't really seem hard on my legs. The breathing was something else. And the public humiliation. There's nothing for blowing your cool like huffing and puffing with a big red face while you run quite slowly. </p><p>Also, it was in the days when it was fine to shout out your van window at a puffing jogger lady, so I got more feedback than I was ever looking for. I have a fine fighting spirit however and THAT shit just made me more determined to run. Although I tried to do it after dark whenever I could.</p><p>So what I'm saying is I have no idea how I'll start running again. Maybe I'll do the couch to 5K thing people talk about.</p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>So how are you doing with physios?</p><p>How thoughtful of you to ask. I've got a bit to say about that. So the one I was telling you about 2 months ago who knew about knees and football. I went back to see him and I think it cost me £58 and in the meantime he'd forgotten everything we'd talked about and had to read his notes while I sat there, and then he gave me some rather hasty exercises where I didn't really get what he was asking me to do. He yawned the whole time as well. I'm still doing the first exercises he gave me and they've helped me I think, but I didn't go back. </p><p>You're quite the Diva these days aren't you Yakhunter?</p><p>Yes it's my new thing.</p><p>I thought I was maybe being a bit stubborn about the anti-inflammatories so I had a google and I found a paper on-line that said ibuprofen gel seemed to be just as effective as oral ibuprofen for reducing swelling and inflammation, but without the side-effects, so I've been using that, and it's hard to know what does what, but my knee's not so swollen - in fact it's much less swollen. I can do a standing quad stretch now which I couldn't do a couple of months ago.</p><p>Last thing and then I promise to shut up about my knee.</p><p>I got an NHS physio appointment through after...maybe 3 months wait. I didn't really want to go because I'm sick of the whole circus, but I went just in case they would have anything shiny or hopeful for me.</p><p>Quite the reverse actually. It's hard for me to say much about it because I appreciate the circumstances any NHS physio is working in - but it just made me feel tired, old and cynical. Obviously they're on a drive to reduce waiting lists because I got an assessment in a room with maybe 10 other people at the same time all saying their thing while I tried to say my thing. I couldn't hardly hear my young physio but I could hear the person adjacent to me who was saying she'd MAXED OUT ON ALL THE PAIN MEDS BUT SHE WAS STILL IN AGONY. He didn't know what was wrong with my knee. His face said he thought I should be happy with how my knee is because it's not too bad. He sent me a pdf of exercises to do the next day, that are less than the ones I'm already doing, and including lunges which I can't do because they hurt my knees. I won't be going back. I need to think of something to say. for cancelling the next appointment. I'll figure something out.</p><p>To the notion that you should just accept it if your knee packs up when you're 56 years old I would like to say this - cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic pain conditions - all associated with obesity - are killing the NHS. It isn't unreasonable to try to be as fit as possible for as long as possible. Exercise improves mental health, reduces blood pressure and the risk of stroke, reduces the chances of getting a host of different cancers, reduces the chances of getting osteoporosis and dementia. Oldies who exercise are doing everyone else a favour. So fuck off.</p><p>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>So in the meantime I've been swimming and out on my bicycle, and I've been enjoying it. I went yesterday with Buchanan to Woodhall Dean to look for Purple Hairstreaks. (Butterflies). He's been at me to do this for a wee while. It was + or - 33 somewhat hilly miles to get there. The Hairstreaks, apparently, are more active in the late afternoon and early evening. I wasn't so keen for this because I like to be eating my tea and watching the Tour de France Highlights at 7pm - but I eased up on my precious regime for this one day. We found the Hairstreaks, and they were indeed much more active as the day got later. Then we cycled, possibly not a very good route, which was 18 miles and had as many hills as the previous 33, to North Berwick and got a train home from there.</p><p>Tea was a carry-out curry at 10.30pm, and I only just managed to get a lesson in on Duolingo to keep my 923 Spanish streak going. 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I took the picture but didn't notice the babies until Peter pointed them out later.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBKLJ_C15vPUbG0P5oakYlYj3fDNcSgbM5nYus-nGnPCJlVv6vflBSLyrZZRJ7xnTmr5cepYN4ABLUgljwzMgasJhBvNzmBjHKNhtX1w-b9D7KRKQsYP095OAK0430t1qwQSWft-bV4VviSM5irSYPZXpcraMhs-TK0suZB-ExuDY_OwCz0ihUW1JtToc/s3000/159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1998" data-original-width="3000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBKLJ_C15vPUbG0P5oakYlYj3fDNcSgbM5nYus-nGnPCJlVv6vflBSLyrZZRJ7xnTmr5cepYN4ABLUgljwzMgasJhBvNzmBjHKNhtX1w-b9D7KRKQsYP095OAK0430t1qwQSWft-bV4VviSM5irSYPZXpcraMhs-TK0suZB-ExuDY_OwCz0ihUW1JtToc/s320/159.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhah2ToPcr-D3kgSxIPGyUkJ1oaUaPA9Z6tTbqafindBq3CBdB-43P6PSia81LJ_oZARx840pxZEw22rYp0rSpg6rcYDwDdDatPSB8TdklsQC_FNZUrbH_dWRkO6GLhEc7GNASOs9W_w9uYzSQjtGohP6BvNky0hMNeIktxi9Ow2uo9c0ZKYilmsoOxf4Y/s3000/160.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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"WE DO!!!", shouted nobody. Well that's too bad because if there's one thing I've learned it's that quite often in life you don't get what you want. So suffer up. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyXZX9t4tHwOx1OaQDCJSup2pR43v--FzwGNOyM8VzjuXEQB6gqiWE-VZA6UXL0At1q87J6L85alIzpafOn86T6LqZMSfuUJPGYBjGx5K3Q-0IOO09atjylYBJv2LzmpV_sQKo_0gqr5KhlyykAnW36nIPRZAp_x3yzFJ1T-plrumutUZi0x3940F2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyXZX9t4tHwOx1OaQDCJSup2pR43v--FzwGNOyM8VzjuXEQB6gqiWE-VZA6UXL0At1q87J6L85alIzpafOn86T6LqZMSfuUJPGYBjGx5K3Q-0IOO09atjylYBJv2LzmpV_sQKo_0gqr5KhlyykAnW36nIPRZAp_x3yzFJ1T-plrumutUZi0x3940F2" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Here's a picture of a knee pinched from the inter-web, because another thing I've learned in life is that too much text and no pictures is unbearable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So anyway, 3 months ago my knee was a bit swollen, just above the kneecap on the right hand-side. It wasn't all that sore and I ran on it for another week but that was making it worse so I stopped. I thought I was being extremely sensible and conservative as in the past I would have just run on it and hoped it would go away until I literally couldn't. (run on it.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I went to a physio sooner rather than later and she said she didn't know what it was but I was quad dominant and had shocking balance so do these exercises. Increase your booty. I did all the exercises and in fact still do and now I've got a marvellous booty and I can do (well kind of) arabesque balances. But I've still got a swollen knee.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I went to see my GP and he thought it was maybe bursitis so encouraged me to try more icing and lyiing with my knee up, but that didn't do anything.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Then I went and got the fluid taken off and an injection of hyaluronic acid as it still wasn't clear what the problem was and the hope was that would be enough just to soothe the joint and get it back moving again. It was nice to see my unswollen knee again, albeit briefly, until it filled up again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Then I was going to go to another physio. The first one had been a bit snippy with me and when I emailed her, which she said I could, to ask if the knee still being swollen after a month was a problem, she didn't get back to me, so I thought fuck off I'd like to work with someone who is actually interested, - but first I went back to my GP and told him where I'd got to. He ordered x-rays to rule out any funny business, or indeed arthritis, and there was no point in going to a physio until I had the results of that. Turns out at the moment it takes a week to get a doctors appointment and then you're supposed to give it 7 days after the x-ray for your GP to get the results. I thought I was being clever by allowing 8 days because things don't always go to plan, but when I got to the GPs the results weren't back yet and then the soonest next appointment I could get was another 10 days. Much as I love the NHS I hate the fucking NHS.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">("How can you complain about the NHS when some babies can't get clean water and have flies in their eyes?" I hear you say. My response is this. Fuck off. Stop trying to relativise my pain.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">WAIT, anyway, Hold the bus!! I forgot James the Chinese Medicine guy. Well maybe not medicine but Tui-Na massage (who he?) and acupuncture, moxibustion, man of inspiring words!! He was really nice. He cheered me up immensely, told me my body knows how to heal, that everyone in the western world's hips are far too tight, and right in front of me squatted in a way that defied belief. I burst out laughing - an anxiety reaction - and said "Stop doing that it's ridiculous." Maybe I can find you a picture. Kind of like this.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCdCGHJ7QdpF3EG_QpZ0JUykKfywRP4Y0e769vjbsHnewtjTsybyCvEHcvC0U0iEpt4ezrOHuVb_IN8_JSNge_5F9JE5NHPeEEYyzCFcngmq2uE8qrPYRXGJDEvUlt_KASBgbBxN9GRsdHBv8RUtUq3C7kjnNDEYTGnP_D8ffY62TlF0hne3D9cp5s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="1000" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCdCGHJ7QdpF3EG_QpZ0JUykKfywRP4Y0e769vjbsHnewtjTsybyCvEHcvC0U0iEpt4ezrOHuVb_IN8_JSNge_5F9JE5NHPeEEYyzCFcngmq2uE8qrPYRXGJDEvUlt_KASBgbBxN9GRsdHBv8RUtUq3C7kjnNDEYTGnP_D8ffY62TlF0hne3D9cp5s" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I told him "yeah but I can't do that". "Yes you can", he said "your body is amazing."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I was just about to say "Thanks very much." when I realised he didn't mean me per se....anyhoo (I'm lolling.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So yeah he was really encouraging and he did some wild massage on my legs with cupping which in case, like me, you didn't know, is putting glass jars that have been heated on the inside, on your skin, which creates a vacuum and draws - I don't know what - sucks at your skin and it's good for you. Feels great in a "Jesus are you sure" kind of way. I went to see him twice and each time my legs felt great afterwards, but my flipping swelling persisted. He gave me a lot of advice about attending to the joints and about mobilising my hips so I can do that crazy squatting thing, which I'm a little ashamed to say I have let drop. But there are so many threads to it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So, at last the x-rays were back and I had a phonecall appointment with my GP and he said, nothing funny on the x-rays, they're normal, so that was good in itself. It meant whatever was going on was soft-tissue. I've got a mind that can easily create a catastrophic scenario so I was reassured even though my GP was unimpressed. The other thing he tried to get me to do was take anti-inflammatories. I'd said no the first time and now I felt like, well that's what you're supposed to do so I better take them and I got the prescription filled and took them for a day, but I don't know, changing your whole system just to alter one small part of you doesn't make any sense to me - and then I read all the warnings about ulcers and gastric bleeds and even cardiovascular problems and I stopped taking them. I had a dig around to see what I could maybe take instead that wouldn't kill my digestive system, or indeed my heart and found a chapter in a book by Neal Barnard called 'Foods that fight pain' that talks about the control of different types of prostaglandins and how you can do it with Flax-seed oil, borage oil and vitamin E, so I've been taking them. I think they have helped a bit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"Why are you even worried about your knee being swollen if it's not that sore?". I hear you ask. Well that's a good question. There's quite a lot on-line about it. It seems that if your knee is swollen for too long it tends to break down the tissues and the bone - so things that you didn't have a problem with will develop a problem. "But why is your knee pissing out fluid from God knows where if it's not even good for it?" you say. Another good question. A really good question. I struggle to see my knee as some kind of mad gangster that is holding a gun to my head for no good reason. I think the answer is it's distressed, that's why.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Anyway, off to another physio with me. This guy specialises in knees and looks after a football team. When he sees how bad my knee is after 3 months of relative rest and this and that and I can't even straighten my leg properly he says he's best spending both our time writing a referral back to the GP to say I need an MRI scan and specialist intervention because it's clearly not healing. He looks gloomy and depressed. He sticks some medical acupuncture needles in my leg while he's typing - very odd - he puts electricity through it. He doesn't stint himself either - he uses really a lot of needles, which I have no objection to, because if there's any upside to this it's that I quite like a new experience and this is a new experience for me. I lie there while he huffs over the wording of his letter and really what preoccupies my mind is how I'm going to gently handle my GP so that I can convey the message in a palatable way. - will he take umbrage at me being in touch <i>again</i> with letters from people asking for things? Or will it be fine? I don't know if I have to make another appointment and wait 10 days to deliver the news in person or if it would be alright just to email it all in. I've just come to the conclusion that I'll phone up and ask the receptionsists who are always pretty nice - they'll know how this needs to be handled, when my new physio is satisfied with his writing and comes back to me. He takes out the needles and gets me to do a few things and he seems to be deep in thought. He gets me to do a wall squat and hold it for bloody ages and after a while he has more of a twinkle about him. He gets me to do leg extensions and lots of them. He says this nice thing "because you're bloody strong aren't you?". It's the best thing I've heard about myself in a while. I tell him I've been avoiding using my quads because of the whole idea that if you're quad dominant your quads pull your kneecap up hard against the bone and that causes a problem. He lets out a big explosive sigh. "Uh well, it's professional opinion isn't it?" he says "80% of the population are quad dominant. 80% of my football team are quad dominant. They can't change it either. And their knees are fine. Fair enough strengthening your glutes if your glutes are weak, but the first thing I'd do with someone with a knee problem is strengthen the knee. Why wouldn't you?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I am certainly not going to argue. Do you know what? I just want my knee back working so I can run again. I'm missing it badly. He tells me to go away and do a rake of exercises (but don't do anything tha makes my knee feel worse) and come back in a few weeks and we'll see where we are.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So I've been doing them and my knee does seem better, at least sometimes. I go through hope cycles and gloom cycles so it depends what day you get me on. In the meantime I happened upon a couple of things. One is a program for knee rehab by a Feldenkrais instructor and physical therapist Marek Wyszynski who has taken a deep dive into understanding knee health, initially through his own experience of tearing a ligament playing basketball and since then through client work. Feldenkrais is all about increasing your awareness of what you are actually doing with your body - the felt sense - and hence finding comfortable efficient movement patterns and dropping bad habits. That's actually an inadequate summary but it'll do for now. Moshe Feldenkrais who originally developed it started with a knee injury the docs couldn't fix and fixed it himself. The thrust of the program is to create optimal conditions for your knee to heal - focusing more on keeping your knee as comfortable and non-inflamed as possible while doing gentle exercise rather than a more component focused approach. For example - current thinking about my knee by those who have bothered to think about it at all, is that I've got a meniscus tear - which can take you down a certain road. The meniscus apparently gets a very poor supply of blood and tissues need blood to heal because that's where the goodies come from - so I think medical wisdom is that if you have a tear of a certain severity, the only answer can be surgery because it can't fix itself. Even if I could get surgery, though, then it's a long rehab, and oftentimes what they do is take away a bit of the meniscus, which doesn't necessarily re-grow and I think I'm right in saying that people who have meniscus surgery get arthritis sooner than average. So not a happy picture really. Even if it was just great, with the current state of our NHS and wait lists or what not, if that was what was prescribed for me it wouldn't happen any time soon. But that view is not the only view.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I was watching a talk by an orthopaedic surgeon, Scott F Dye this morning who is escoriatingly critical of a gung-ho surgical approach. It makes him so angry it's actually enjoyable to listen to, if a bit niche. It's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybd4MZe3jk">here</a>. His view is in accord with Marek's that you need to concentrate on allowing the knee to heal, which he says it can if you don't over-tax it. And you have to be patient. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So that's where I am. Doing exercises. Trying not to overdo. Trying to be patient.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I'll see my football physio guy in a bit over a week and I'm hoping that he thinks I'm making progress and doesn't get that look about him again - the depressed look. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">See you in a while.</div></div><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-77293769310946548482023-05-08T16:27:00.001+01:002023-05-08T16:27:49.634+01:00Two months of not running and counting...<p> Am I an injured runner who is just swimming a lot at the moment or am I a swimmer who used to run? Only time will tell. I have not run at all since February. My puffy knee is still puffy, in fact, if anything, it feels a bit worse.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIv_4wdcgcWnlbmNBy5nRumTNFGoTVmeAH8V-s1ZqpM6lRLpu_nHCpE5wJI6LgUmr-ViAZkBadDcdGCfEBCpaTC1axVAI329hWfr_msSuPg1pn5lKnZ60rnIE2-dGyYD4eT-cu0zHxSdqKTy1XJwPx9zGOH65IpmUMvVZ5hl7J2ebWbk4ArvNKMH2e" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIv_4wdcgcWnlbmNBy5nRumTNFGoTVmeAH8V-s1ZqpM6lRLpu_nHCpE5wJI6LgUmr-ViAZkBadDcdGCfEBCpaTC1axVAI329hWfr_msSuPg1pn5lKnZ60rnIE2-dGyYD4eT-cu0zHxSdqKTy1XJwPx9zGOH65IpmUMvVZ5hl7J2ebWbk4ArvNKMH2e" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Strava doesn't think much of my fitness. Strava can go f*+k it self though, because I'm doing my best. I've been cycling, indoors and out, doing my rehab exercises, going for walks around the graveyard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I've even ordered an indoor rower. No of course we don't have room for it, and I can't afford it, but I don't care. I need something that's going to make me or keep me strong.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I've been to see....a physio at Fasics and got a program of exercises to correct my quad dominance and bad balance. Then, a guy who does acupuncture and massage. (He was my favourite) I've had an injection of hyaluronic acid in my knee at a clinic in Falkirk. I've been to see my GP. I had an x-ray. I'm going to see the GP again this Friday. I think he's going to refer me to knee specialists, but we'll see. The physio in Falkirk who did my injection says, based on clinical experience, he thinks it's a meniscus injury because they can be really stubborn. He says to get physio for meniscus rehab - which I'll probably do, but I'm just waiting to see what the GP says. Maybe they'll do an MRI. Maybe they'll even offer me some treatment. I'm just assuming there will be an 8 year wait to see anyone, but maybe that's not true.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It's good I had a lot of practise being injured last year because I'm handling it fairly well I think.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I can walk fairly well except for downstairs and my knee swells up more if I'm on my feet for too long - but by which I mean like 3 hours, so it's not like I'm fragile.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I'm wondering if the whole quad dominance thing is really true. I'll persist with assuming it is for now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So that's where we are. This runner's world has shrunk a fair bit. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-60771908621138716212023-03-12T16:21:00.001+00:002023-03-12T16:21:27.552+00:00The rise and fall of Mr Mousy<p> Good God, I knew it was a wee while since I blogged, but I didn't know it was that long. Hello again!</p><p>I actually was running from October to February, but now I am back on the bench. I wanted to post this great graphic which shows my sharp fall from grace from just before I retired from the NHS until recently.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLHYL4P6E73O0ia17llZjnXkF18UjBMzg6bjf8LKIH_T2Dh4k2CLLZ9dQ4eJrKccclg3EMmpsHgwGVU49gEphp6JnInuFggGmLBBtUJ2bArs7EwpOaUi06bpvRwk7kd2vD07iVichCxrR8bqZh4_4jfStqBkIZSWQ1cCL4f_HFxqX5an5i4_nKjg6/s1280/fitnessand%20freshness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1280" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLHYL4P6E73O0ia17llZjnXkF18UjBMzg6bjf8LKIH_T2Dh4k2CLLZ9dQ4eJrKccclg3EMmpsHgwGVU49gEphp6JnInuFggGmLBBtUJ2bArs7EwpOaUi06bpvRwk7kd2vD07iVichCxrR8bqZh4_4jfStqBkIZSWQ1cCL4f_HFxqX5an5i4_nKjg6/s320/fitnessand%20freshness.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The round orange dots are parkruns that we started doing every Saturday. Anyway, I was pleased to find that despite low weekly mileage my 5K times were improving. The prevailing wisdom seems to be that as you get older you want to focus more on trying to improve your speed than just knocking out a lot of base miles, and this seemed borne out as I managed to take a couple of minutes off my parkrun time by doing one speed session and one 'other' session during the week and a parkrun on Saturday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then I started trying to add in longer runs and that's where things went wrong I think. I did an 11 miler which I got away with and then the following week a 9 miler. My right knee started to swell a bit even though it wasn't painful. I cut back my mileage but it got worse incrementally until it was obvious I shouldn't be running on it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After doing my head in by googling and trying to figure out what it was this time, I bit the bullet and went and saw a physio at Fasic. She says I'm quad dominant and weak in the hips and I have a battery of exercises and stretches to do. She says don't run until you're pain-free and go back to 5K and then only increase your mileage v-e-r-y g-r-a-d-u-a-l-l-y if at all. It feels good to have a plan and I've had plenty of practice at not being able to run, so I'm just doing what I'm told. I'm walking, swimming, cycling and doing my exercises. It's been 2 weeks since I last ran and it seems longer and it doesn't seem quite as much of a disaster as it did all last year.</div><div><br /></div>So I think I'll tell you the sad story of our mouse. Well there was maybe more than one. We had a wee mouse scooting about the house. Both of us quite like them, you know, as long as there aren't too many or whatever - the odd wee scamper can be fun. Sometimes he would run along the wall when we were watching the telly and give us a chuckle, or sometimes he would belt round the corner from behind the freezer to under the sink when I was in there in the kitchen in my bare feet boiling the kettle. I'd give out a cartoon screech and he would run into his little house a la Jerry. It was all very much slapstick and light-hearted.<div>I thought I should get a wild-life camera and try out using it on Mr Mousy, so that's what I did. For the first wee while I got no pictures at all, but then after a week or so I did start to get some images and video. Mr Mouse must have just been waiting to see if the camera thing would chase him or not.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy8e8P7Tiz2Q7wt_IHnz4Fg7fDp9-0LfJ6zC9tpTjt2SwIF3cuGIRgOM4ouSdOb5nCvF3ypnwFWgyLEFoP6Jw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But then....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One day I went into the kitchen and there was Mr Mouse lying on his side. Being a coward I called Peter to help and he being hands on touched Mr Mousey who did a gallop on his side, but didn't go anywhere. We figured he wasn't long for this world and Peter put him in a clean paint kettle with a kitchen roll duvet and while we watched the remainder of our telly program, Mr Mouse passed on to the Elysian Fields. We were both saddened, and for a while the flat felt too empty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then we were both ridiculously pleased to hear the scitter-scatter of tiny feet again, and we had a few sightings of somebody dark and fast cantering around the kitchen. Order was restored to us and daily hi-jinx of sightings and screaming and scootering began again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Until...one evening we were watching 19-2 on Netflix; a tense, dark, man drama of French Canadian police; when we saw a small, almost comical form making his way across the carpet towards us. First we were amused but quickly became concerned as we saw this little mouse bumping into things. He seemed to be blind. He kept bowling around, however, like a badly made animatronics mouse.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We searched our poor hearts for what to do. We could kill him but that seemed just too brutal and although he was clearly very sick indeed he didn't seem to be panicking or upset. We knew he likely wouldn't last long and left to his own affairs would probably squeeze behind the bookcase and then make a smell for days. So we corralled him - this time in a comfortable Hoka box, with tissue paper, kitchen roll and an old sock, and we made him a last meal of oatcakes and almond butter and a saucer of water. He liked the almond butter a lot, despite his current state, had a little drink of the water and then sat in it. While we watched the rest of our police drama, he settled down and had a sleep. In the morning he was lying on his side and had joined his friend in the Hereafter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMGt1F2CdiwrDzkZl6MzFfkNnjaAmOrlgajGFLe63p6dsI5PYQTFdlogPSsRaOarWQKKx6ZrN-z87IiWkhtnl57QXH-W1c8Kl7wQLdm8f8yYp6H9jrN-k35ly0-IzAhCvvRAFO9UH1WvD2VXMf7fRM6_3g-Da91hhvl9FNGg6zdrhI44RIBpTA7tSr/s2048/332204170_595511402429853_9156931626518604710_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMGt1F2CdiwrDzkZl6MzFfkNnjaAmOrlgajGFLe63p6dsI5PYQTFdlogPSsRaOarWQKKx6ZrN-z87IiWkhtnl57QXH-W1c8Kl7wQLdm8f8yYp6H9jrN-k35ly0-IzAhCvvRAFO9UH1WvD2VXMf7fRM6_3g-Da91hhvl9FNGg6zdrhI44RIBpTA7tSr/s320/332204170_595511402429853_9156931626518604710_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>We assume he (and the first Mr Mousey) was poisoned by our next door neighbours, although there hasn't been an autopsy or an inquest. We're not sure if we'll ever love again.<div><br /></div><div>I'll tell you next blog if we did or not.<br /><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-75248217487367805602022-10-11T18:34:00.000+01:002022-10-11T18:34:41.936+01:00Walking the Lighthouse Way Day 9<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuGxg9nTItLYtg6sScf_eoteRHAK7V5WsGsMiZCQgR9wqvz3hYCNVyOiFDIsrnsP2JoTLTwLUKZZ72qee5g7Y-swZ4hFut-Es-FTkJtGq0QuuPZnc5PNRhyvknd8u3zEKyaLHb_sVQEEvup3S8BzA2aaj_CWIGuAgXLyKbpuUiYCDDW0L6KfR17IR/s3602/strava.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3602" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuGxg9nTItLYtg6sScf_eoteRHAK7V5WsGsMiZCQgR9wqvz3hYCNVyOiFDIsrnsP2JoTLTwLUKZZ72qee5g7Y-swZ4hFut-Es-FTkJtGq0QuuPZnc5PNRhyvknd8u3zEKyaLHb_sVQEEvup3S8BzA2aaj_CWIGuAgXLyKbpuUiYCDDW0L6KfR17IR/s320/strava.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So, we have travelled very far together mis lamparas pequenas. We have had sore feet, we have felt weary, hungry, we have been afraid we would not make it, we have had fights and made up. We have drunk more wine and beer in the last 10 days than I have probably in the last decade - although I'm not sure about that. We have certainly eaten more meat than in many a year. So let's just get this last bit done.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We were up and out of Lires quite early again - and it was another overcast morning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijK-ug9dwK8vHRUxDWSg0xdUl1FNHRrmuWZm6TFdVFw_SPkoIyCPuhLmPMYS9zBLsfQCSl-dtM36WARlW_t0MPYSRPlpCelYu45NcIYNyNR394LEJDCX_qONsKc7JFvKDO4Hw3zTxe4fzmDOIPbIPt0-xMirn2_CY8QmQZzRPi6GqfJvileTH9ieWx/s3000/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1678" data-original-width="3000" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijK-ug9dwK8vHRUxDWSg0xdUl1FNHRrmuWZm6TFdVFw_SPkoIyCPuhLmPMYS9zBLsfQCSl-dtM36WARlW_t0MPYSRPlpCelYu45NcIYNyNR394LEJDCX_qONsKc7JFvKDO4Hw3zTxe4fzmDOIPbIPt0-xMirn2_CY8QmQZzRPi6GqfJvileTH9ieWx/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There was a long and very pleasant section on vegetation which had grown over sand at the back of sand-dunes - it had delightful and rather alien looking plants. We fell to discussing Star Trek and the various turns the plot could take. We were pretty sure that sometimes the aliens looked like pretty ladies and Jim fell in love with them. And sometimes it might be that the plants turn out to be the aliens. We tried to think of something new. "I know" says Peter. "What if the numbers turn out to be the people?" What indeed. 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text-align: center;">"The Last Hill" he assured me. But was it really? 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The end of the world.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAHRNoKPfCT4G2Kfyo_jDFV_ymA4GOWs7-1NZP73KUP8bFj42bikjUCXoFC3pb7O5_7EgLXyBNMYNnQplhCgoAgvG2y5vYoTahLmeTXEDOefOjv-hxWPS-V_n84nNSZs99LcuMeYm9Z71kUwZz9ZyMTNOBPsNbUdVkfyYZW5LP1H24GYeYMyFiHEKF/s3000/043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="3000" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAHRNoKPfCT4G2Kfyo_jDFV_ymA4GOWs7-1NZP73KUP8bFj42bikjUCXoFC3pb7O5_7EgLXyBNMYNnQplhCgoAgvG2y5vYoTahLmeTXEDOefOjv-hxWPS-V_n84nNSZs99LcuMeYm9Z71kUwZz9ZyMTNOBPsNbUdVkfyYZW5LP1H24GYeYMyFiHEKF/s320/043.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyT8wJ0b-17vEYBOXNgm6qwEiRP9h1iz5fQqDRjpVyi5QjNyFHbVsFwiunqJM1F9Zc0XcWCr5yPxf0ujRiOiQRcw8RSNa1zWJiP_tJ8wuP7-2uPuRaPzhXrN3Jau6umaRTHLvRy92f1DeJeTT5qd5zKfaZVu5wkb9ePXyUmiu_Gn1csBOVuKZyN9PK/s3000/044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1617" data-original-width="3000" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyT8wJ0b-17vEYBOXNgm6qwEiRP9h1iz5fQqDRjpVyi5QjNyFHbVsFwiunqJM1F9Zc0XcWCr5yPxf0ujRiOiQRcw8RSNa1zWJiP_tJ8wuP7-2uPuRaPzhXrN3Jau6umaRTHLvRy92f1DeJeTT5qd5zKfaZVu5wkb9ePXyUmiu_Gn1csBOVuKZyN9PK/s320/044.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNj3iAbSQrylyMcydWqbm-pzl1_TazeUh18UkggvQZCP08GzKi8QqAjCvS9r44q6Ne2Y4YlgEjgo2Wu6lXqriRzE8Ud6TF-BB3Tbtua0n7fz70r2xQbqWYrxSaE90ElKyvAmPTYe6yRat7jrnznCIeRu-TCod-TIIVedNDHUIv-03jmg_r-tLa5a4v/s3000/045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1789" data-original-width="3000" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNj3iAbSQrylyMcydWqbm-pzl1_TazeUh18UkggvQZCP08GzKi8QqAjCvS9r44q6Ne2Y4YlgEjgo2Wu6lXqriRzE8Ud6TF-BB3Tbtua0n7fz70r2xQbqWYrxSaE90ElKyvAmPTYe6yRat7jrnznCIeRu-TCod-TIIVedNDHUIv-03jmg_r-tLa5a4v/s320/045.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A lucky chance meeting with Tomas and Regina just as we arrived.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1s5OcXet2xywwm9qW3wFVd_8UX59s7Fohnh0BCSF33R9a0-IE6xGnVu4Gwuz2rsKCknwwjIwp7MtmbQA-JtTOl4aXNBIp4s7SqBTZp57-Dz-qsL6zd-DTX4p4z_XKqzzWOk9LneEyF1m8HCwngcwHh-teeq6WYnsaBLKJD0G8Y36rWL3BzCflOg-5/s3000/046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1928" data-original-width="3000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1s5OcXet2xywwm9qW3wFVd_8UX59s7Fohnh0BCSF33R9a0-IE6xGnVu4Gwuz2rsKCknwwjIwp7MtmbQA-JtTOl4aXNBIp4s7SqBTZp57-Dz-qsL6zd-DTX4p4z_XKqzzWOk9LneEyF1m8HCwngcwHh-teeq6WYnsaBLKJD0G8Y36rWL3BzCflOg-5/s320/046.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There were touristy stalls out selling end of the world things just before we got to the hotel - selling um maybe shells or something, and trail smurfs. I would have given them some good money for a pair of flip-flops. I even asked. But they didn't have any, and the sales-woman who a moment before had been so interested in us now no longer was. Och well. Peter maintains I never made it because there was some bronze boot that you were supposed to go and touch, and I didn't bother. When I got to the hotel what I did was wash my disgusting trainers which had had another prolonged drenching, but this time really thoroughly. I took them in the shower with me. I scrubbed them and scrubbed them and rinsed them and then I hair-dryed them and put them in a pool of sunlight on the window-sill to dry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Later we went down for dinner. We were given the "sunset" table. Can you guess? I always find a sunset is improved by sub-titles. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3llqmCz5U8_XZSmwEUtPyZaK2HVqQFnoT26BAiArCw0GUaG0vxelc9whdo1Y0sQaUMHMrVlSd0kO4nqwB7fZtXeBtAexmJPEkiR2bLihRWxgo8ENG6fAAcH4LZEnHrUgMlHlw6qLpOL-Vk7Db28qAOAgkFXJUhywivvPAzCbiecjsfBx1TTiSrLCo/s3000/047.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1658" data-original-width="3000" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3llqmCz5U8_XZSmwEUtPyZaK2HVqQFnoT26BAiArCw0GUaG0vxelc9whdo1Y0sQaUMHMrVlSd0kO4nqwB7fZtXeBtAexmJPEkiR2bLihRWxgo8ENG6fAAcH4LZEnHrUgMlHlw6qLpOL-Vk7Db28qAOAgkFXJUhywivvPAzCbiecjsfBx1TTiSrLCo/s320/047.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9o0QzV8zKpj61ocxe_4s6GAe80nZhW_FiCz295tdz2BWLuakW_l7MhJUHHNSrwcMXR0CM1FBcE47pYkxHREBkKSRUwOYzVn3N7ELsL73b5Mb6jAKG1S7IMEpJ8vPDMLVM6-1a-7FdtyTd-0ytUcQMSk-JLzMz6PuDG2L-pKmOEZuy3YCcmlZMV7bt/s3840/048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9o0QzV8zKpj61ocxe_4s6GAe80nZhW_FiCz295tdz2BWLuakW_l7MhJUHHNSrwcMXR0CM1FBcE47pYkxHREBkKSRUwOYzVn3N7ELsL73b5Mb6jAKG1S7IMEpJ8vPDMLVM6-1a-7FdtyTd-0ytUcQMSk-JLzMz6PuDG2L-pKmOEZuy3YCcmlZMV7bt/s320/048.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9PQZWtgdXZI0HNa9V-9o9m-MIGIoTsir38MdxBm1iz93xdnJvqGl8KXKsoIqWw2ksoQ-5rznB4k7SGF3L9qsHn3v3KaRIIVI-EpIyzsmkNoy3OepJYZJK57-9kVIVXARCvcoFlQs7eWuKXpClroOn1ncBuIgNnajtx7pUrLq9gxSlfTEBIeeJjtjR/s3000/049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2889" data-original-width="3000" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9PQZWtgdXZI0HNa9V-9o9m-MIGIoTsir38MdxBm1iz93xdnJvqGl8KXKsoIqWw2ksoQ-5rznB4k7SGF3L9qsHn3v3KaRIIVI-EpIyzsmkNoy3OepJYZJK57-9kVIVXARCvcoFlQs7eWuKXpClroOn1ncBuIgNnajtx7pUrLq9gxSlfTEBIeeJjtjR/s320/049.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4RcvjRQCL530ZpPSQavzA8ZTaikTTNY7siMBPb-y06XGX7NrG52Bq4nNf5Jjx_AiFgvUDrGY5fMn3zOyh9sp0lAePMGMp7-DLelcDTGhlYLnrBmP0WNEWcZohZ7hlb9IKjJ2JsSFaGjZz1rypMfLPeO8Fvw2oBmQWZpEgFEzX4et6o0qPOpX5eqY/s3000/050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2097" data-original-width="3000" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4RcvjRQCL530ZpPSQavzA8ZTaikTTNY7siMBPb-y06XGX7NrG52Bq4nNf5Jjx_AiFgvUDrGY5fMn3zOyh9sp0lAePMGMp7-DLelcDTGhlYLnrBmP0WNEWcZohZ7hlb9IKjJ2JsSFaGjZz1rypMfLPeO8Fvw2oBmQWZpEgFEzX4et6o0qPOpX5eqY/s320/050.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It's possible I had hake again, and it's possible Peter had some little squids. I had clearly had more than him for my first course and the waitress asked him if he wanted another salty dish, which I thought was perceptive of her - and I think maybe salty and savoury are the same thing in Espana. But I could be wrong. Anyway, Peter said no but was there a pudding that would fill him up. I had cheese cake and he had three cheese cheese cake which he declared was the best pudding he'd ever had. And we had some wine. 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text-align: justify;">The next day we were taken in a Taxi back to Santiago de Compostela and our flight wasn't until after 10pm at night. We were just killing time all day and could have done without it, and put in another 9 miles of walking.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">My favourite thing was the view from a hill in S de C, which seems a fitting photo to end on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdWAuQUo0gstJlArla62SuDnujgGnAR_UJ5G3kUCwOdyhOGEqfxIcmqXn8noFzt64s7JNEBXZfgmh_Tf_vmfiYfaMyhriPvPSGfW9j15n7cFcznXunoGqAYmeLTB_4TLTige5_0Hg5PY-KCeV1ozGT-0ZfARceRivzxBJhaEXf_uq5UmQbCt_5tk6q/s3000/019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1602" data-original-width="3000" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdWAuQUo0gstJlArla62SuDnujgGnAR_UJ5G3kUCwOdyhOGEqfxIcmqXn8noFzt64s7JNEBXZfgmh_Tf_vmfiYfaMyhriPvPSGfW9j15n7cFcznXunoGqAYmeLTB_4TLTige5_0Hg5PY-KCeV1ozGT-0ZfARceRivzxBJhaEXf_uq5UmQbCt_5tk6q/s320/019.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cheerios!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-9767413469819822102022-10-11T17:53:00.003+01:002022-10-11T17:55:33.187+01:00Walking the Lighthouse Way Day 8<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Pw0TBC6WyqHw0SRFSDsyaUu5myfInf3SXHaZi16FJ_j_8aT2kSR7D7Ge3jnoyluzEghVS2YR3WERklCiuZHWkFTr5TjiwtONhcBGbhEiNC_gsSghSCLTwSTkb1TlojTQtLSvvPkUGni00JPu2euoe8V6L1DNIk3VDOOinEiaDpQQt2GwqyFc5JRP/s3218/strava.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3218" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Pw0TBC6WyqHw0SRFSDsyaUu5myfInf3SXHaZi16FJ_j_8aT2kSR7D7Ge3jnoyluzEghVS2YR3WERklCiuZHWkFTr5TjiwtONhcBGbhEiNC_gsSghSCLTwSTkb1TlojTQtLSvvPkUGni00JPu2euoe8V6L1DNIk3VDOOinEiaDpQQt2GwqyFc5JRP/s320/strava.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I had a long and good sleep. We finished off the rest of the muesli and bananas (but not the wine) and set off. It was a drizzly, overcast morning and I could feel my blister despite the plaster. We'd talked about getting proper Compeed blister plasters a few times but pharmacies were always shut or not open yet. Peter had some with him but they were the big ones and this was a small spot between my toes. We tried cutting down a big plaster to make a small one but it didn't adhere properly. This morning we bit the bullet and went to a pharmacy and I managed to procure a box of small compeed plasters, and Peter patched up my foot on a bench outside. It still stung for about 10 minutes and then I never heard from it again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Phew.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqlwS3uVRaS9XQaNt4xzcTEHcKZxgAPObparzUbw9MU5jyl1sUYaamFrmFa7fZAy0TxtVIrwfOSwSlZRzSIA2l-tURT6FteWkmTGKMOO8DNmT4UM1cLyZ2Poph-8pmEUf5ae3Hf9k0LoB46MGHT3AzQjqRbhHqxlL6pcR5qUYZvTVLrXg2G3PI7JH/s3000/001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1930" data-original-width="3000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqlwS3uVRaS9XQaNt4xzcTEHcKZxgAPObparzUbw9MU5jyl1sUYaamFrmFa7fZAy0TxtVIrwfOSwSlZRzSIA2l-tURT6FteWkmTGKMOO8DNmT4UM1cLyZ2Poph-8pmEUf5ae3Hf9k0LoB46MGHT3AzQjqRbhHqxlL6pcR5qUYZvTVLrXg2G3PI7JH/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We could easily have been in Scotland. It was clagged in and we were climbing up on peaty trails with heather and ferns on either sides. At the top of the hill was a windfarm but, eerily, you could hear the yomp, yomp, yomp of the blades but only catch the odd glimpse of them through the mist. There were some hard to read bits of route, the most uncertain we'd been so far - where most of the way there were green arrows and spots marking the way, on this day we found ourselves on longish stretches with no green markings but also no real way we could think of that we could have gone wrong. To be fair, we hadn't read the travel notes closely - and still haven't! We had Peter's Suunto which he'd put the route into and my E-trex as back up, so there was never any real worry - just that we didn't want to make a long day any longer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When we got down from the hills there were long coastal stretches - past a surf school down a remote road and then along an ever more remote road. Such long, long stretches of empty beaches and big green waves rolling in. Then we turned inland again and it was longer than I wanted it to be until we finally arrived in Lires. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At Lires we signed into our penultimate hotel. Our shy hostess gave us beers and nuts, for which I felt extravagantly grateful. After Maria's ebullient welcome at Cereixo, we were back to a more austere atmosphere. The bathroom was large and sterile and tiled to within an inch of its life. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I found when I took off my trainers that they were now smelling horrific, having been wet pretty much all day. Peter gave them a wash and dried them for me with the hair-dryer in the bathroom, which was nice of him, but it spread a sickening warm fungus smell throughout the bedroom. It was only belatedly we saw the sign saying "Please do not wash clothes in the room. There is a laundry in the back of the house." Oops. Too late.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We had asked our hostess (I don't know what to call her) where was good to eat and she'd said there was a place across the road and another one up the road. At the time, the thing that seemed best was to go to the nearest one. But then when I had a moment I looked on trip-advisor, and the one across the road was looking awful fancy-shmancy and quite pricey. All the food was seafood which might be a wonderful treat if you're into seafood - but I don't know my way around seafood and wasn't in the mood for all the angst - trying to figure out what things are and which hand you should eat it with and all that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Much futther up the road was a basic seeming bar with reasonable prices and food that we now understood. Raciones! Salad Mixta. Salad completa! Cervezas! Bring it on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So we marched up the hill and went there. I need to google and find out what it was called in case anybody cares....O Recuncho de Lires! Buen Hecho.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It had metal tables, bright lights, men playing cards and then going outside for a cigarette. We had albondigas! Meatballs, to you. And chips. And lots of them! And a big salad! And beers. We were big-time hungry and set to. It was the kind of place that likes it if you're hungry and you eat all your food. I'm the kind of person that likes that kind of place. We had wine. Lovely glasses of wine. And then a big bear of a man came out with the postres menu, so we didn't muck about, we had hot chocolate steamed puddings with melty chocolate insides and big dollops of not only ice-cream but SQUIRTY CREAM. OLE!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Woo hoo! And it was all for a smidgeon of the price of the fancy place down the road. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We rolled down the road back to our room, pleased with our choices.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ</div>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-8313516543709662512022-10-11T17:04:00.000+01:002022-10-11T17:04:02.563+01:00Walking the Lighthouse Way Day 7<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23-ZNDXEciDOBmMtGP6qea_y5dQbQXSUSs2K4Dntow-tKsXJlLX2nOl4Fi7KlYDYncx-2kGgNOkdV87Ec_Dm1iBNYJfpNzFQIIKIDYrB31zbFuGoA2WxZw9VuTEqYUWpr2cEyFtCAuFoESvElQPqgcxrhDWxFZ9x3nnAONRayJa49pEtMpZioLQUp/s3357/strava.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3357" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23-ZNDXEciDOBmMtGP6qea_y5dQbQXSUSs2K4Dntow-tKsXJlLX2nOl4Fi7KlYDYncx-2kGgNOkdV87Ec_Dm1iBNYJfpNzFQIIKIDYrB31zbFuGoA2WxZw9VuTEqYUWpr2cEyFtCAuFoESvElQPqgcxrhDWxFZ9x3nnAONRayJa49pEtMpZioLQUp/s320/strava.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Are we there yet? No, I swear to God. I wish you children would stop complaining. This was another 'kind of' rest day. We had a good breakfast served up by Julio I think, who was as quiet as Maria was forthcoming - but was very good to us and kept bringing more, more, more until we were absolutely clear we'd had enough. 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He had stayed there before with Nick. I did like it but my feet were really done again and maybe wet shoes had exacerbated the blister problem. The next two final days of the trip were billed as big days and I had one particularly sore blister and also my achilles were shouting. I just holed up at Muxia and Peter went to the shops, and we had a night off from Spanish things and eating out, although we may have had a bottle of wine - and we had muesli and bananas for tea. Peter had got some plasters and I tried to sort my feet out as best I could.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-14288024977162753792022-10-11T16:47:00.001+01:002022-10-11T16:47:15.112+01:00Walking the Lighthouse Way Day 6<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6678JVg0BkqjAQcYiQ_bl5jFaH-qerGZq2Evfj-_Jp13-M9uN3-jQ2ylbOe00c78lrckn9JAO60vSnzjs4h359aQvNxggkvcKzXYukgA6O19zny0ggER9sA028_Blrlg7hCsOnlFqG4QsmY7sz36DhLlgE9Rt-jJt-r6xcV_4jgSzkpfzb1dR2QL/s3500/strava.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3500" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6678JVg0BkqjAQcYiQ_bl5jFaH-qerGZq2Evfj-_Jp13-M9uN3-jQ2ylbOe00c78lrckn9JAO60vSnzjs4h359aQvNxggkvcKzXYukgA6O19zny0ggER9sA028_Blrlg7hCsOnlFqG4QsmY7sz36DhLlgE9Rt-jJt-r6xcV_4jgSzkpfzb1dR2QL/s320/strava.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">OMG are we still on this? Yes we are people, come on, it's a long walk. Try to keep up!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This was billed as an easier day. Let's see if it was. Oh yeah I can see from the photos that it was a sunny day. Honestly, for every day I have to think "what was wrong with me that day?" At the outset, not too much, I don't think, except my feet were kind of sore. We had breakfast in the hotel and made up for lost time. I think I had lots of cake. Apparently there's a special Galician cake that has at least 30% almonds. I assume that was the cake that was out for breakfast amonst the ham and the chorizo and the cheese and the jam.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPMhfXflHXhVfgKQKixsdeKBvu3T8SFrSaJXZwLmPm80zTf8H8og1PQijdVM9Ns4rmfjjElZaLczQ0qhrNbyC3qMlKLAFYNddbY0Bccpgd4XxkFzf9cqWdbbYhENyBB0-qs6BwfR3nI46s08Tvlelsp5mXwFGe23Emui9Q3WpX0NDFLEYSFV7xQa9/s3000/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2153" data-original-width="3000" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPMhfXflHXhVfgKQKixsdeKBvu3T8SFrSaJXZwLmPm80zTf8H8og1PQijdVM9Ns4rmfjjElZaLczQ0qhrNbyC3qMlKLAFYNddbY0Bccpgd4XxkFzf9cqWdbbYhENyBB0-qs6BwfR3nI46s08Tvlelsp5mXwFGe23Emui9Q3WpX0NDFLEYSFV7xQa9/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaWk-JTfWWgCiHfw1jJNV0MpgmcBacEwxvCGdFtwpqMwT-bPBzW4HpvNZND3d_HtnAnhLfUHwPlXQk1-TJih-YALN1l2P3kF3_bVoRrn8GCOZs5Gao5S_i4qaLA35MuMmm32PqahTxJIzlpAT07_YkCq8SJPG6QBimdIWfQgOfDACgo_Am463iKxQ/s3000/002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2420" data-original-width="3000" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaWk-JTfWWgCiHfw1jJNV0MpgmcBacEwxvCGdFtwpqMwT-bPBzW4HpvNZND3d_HtnAnhLfUHwPlXQk1-TJih-YALN1l2P3kF3_bVoRrn8GCOZs5Gao5S_i4qaLA35MuMmm32PqahTxJIzlpAT07_YkCq8SJPG6QBimdIWfQgOfDACgo_Am463iKxQ/s320/002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Double-rope skippin. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At lunchtime Peter was determined to do a self-timed photo of us from a distance, giving himself a good sprint to cover the ground during the 10s count-down. I was fairly convinced he was going to trip over a root and then nut the granite table at which I was sitting and I'd have to phone the Spanish emergency number and explain it all in Spanish. I didn't even know where I was. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Thankfully he didn't do it.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnxbLY-QudL1rLk2ZWG7vzAySGi3d2AbydnppGZjUBqIQur2AjXbf79O95JW5JfbJkzmTmlV83ktCsn8teZFX0QpyYRIWDudCJ4KwQQRwmgTAcpDXQHq75Z5RygIJd1IdL_XelGx7TQ0Oejs2z0ATEPzVlyOCIsuO3Uy36If9EPKjRSWbWfCIWdm9X/s5333/017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5333" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnxbLY-QudL1rLk2ZWG7vzAySGi3d2AbydnppGZjUBqIQur2AjXbf79O95JW5JfbJkzmTmlV83ktCsn8teZFX0QpyYRIWDudCJ4KwQQRwmgTAcpDXQHq75Z5RygIJd1IdL_XelGx7TQ0Oejs2z0ATEPzVlyOCIsuO3Uy36If9EPKjRSWbWfCIWdm9X/s320/017.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBFh783qdSwDRxjZp0ZNonuNEb-XDImxuSvfzZ1eSCbcFPfSjM0vFP9OVTJsanxOfd-A1WPDZni3U_XOCQlIPQwdmSgaXhy01WUufMmfXv85q3PrSQ1rUYHGsYpONyZcDeogWCg-vt-Q9CvdEF0D9jIeBUNHucwnnuuQtRrOd49OGP8DJK6axtEml6/s3000/018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Me and Peter fell out with each other at the end of the walk because it said on our guide book (which I'd taken charge of) not to turn up until 4pm. I wanted to stop and loiter but somehow I kept getting frog-marched on, even though I knew we were going to arrive too early. I would have like to have sat with a hanky on my head and my feet in some cool water, but PB just kept on marching, marching, marching, marching. So we arrived at our destination at 3pm. He was all for just going in anyway. It was the first place that had actually set a time limit. It just annoyed me. I went and sat on a wall in the shade for an hour and did my Duolingo lesson and uploaded the day's walk on my phone. Himself found a field and chased butterflies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At 4pm we went back up to the place we were staying where we were greeted by Maria. Well we were greeted by Maria after she'd got off the phone to someone because we could hear her rapping on from outside. When we got inside she said we shouldn't have worried about the 4pm (I could have kicked her) but she also quickly won us over with her h-u-g-e personality. It might have been a bit much on the day to day but it was very nice for two rather addled walkers who had been marching, marching, marching in the strong sun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">She asked if we wanted meat or fish for our evening meal and I said meat - kind of at random and also because I didn't want any tentacles or sucky things appearing on my plate, if I didn't have to. She then said oh that was a pity because she'd got fish in specially because the On Foot Holidays had said we were vegetarians. Okay let's have fish. So we were going to have Hake and potatoes. Well that's just fine. She said if you need ANYTHING AT ALL you just come down and you shout MARIA MARIA. ha-ha.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was restorative. She didn't speak English but she was quite happy to keep going with half-arsed Espanish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At dinner she came and chatted away to us for ages, explaining that the Hake was a flat fish and you could take the spine out in a oner so you didn't get so many bones. The fish was stewed in a pan and the potatoes were cooked in beside it. I think that's whay she said. We also talked about the fires - there had been some bad fires in the heat of the summer and some people had lost their homes. But she didn't want to dwell on that, but bounced off onto another topic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Then she went and spoke to someone on the phone for a while while we got mildly sozzed on nice wine out of a huge bottle. Pretty sure we had a pudding but I can't remember what. Then we had....a coffee liqueur. Maria said we more or less had to have it. It was muy fuerte and the caffeine doesn't affect you at all - you sleep like a baby afterwards. So we had some crazy strong coffee liqueur which was indeed muy fuerte. I did sleep like a baby but Peter said he wasn't so sure there was no caffeine. He felt kind of wired in the night.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Maria said it wouldn't be her in the morning, but it would be her boss, who had two jobs, he was also a mechanic and fixed things. I think we both spontaneously looked sad - so she said not to worry because her boss was a very gentle kind man and he would take care of us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Then she went outside to bellow a conversation at a neighbour across the road. We were finished so we left her a little note and 5 Euros and said thanks very much, but she came in and caught us.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-47895958819671047692022-10-09T15:59:00.000+01:002022-10-09T15:59:40.770+01:00Walking the Lighthouse Way Day 5<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1C9A0BTSij42L4g_dFnwQyerrwX5VuoNEI2zBFJFmjn-9ut4ud-d8VdQ0KXRSdyFSH6JBlXIQZVWgj_xLAMBwPEPBJr3i4Ke3vBcPiRh3BGBh4xIeYhGTjiqkdq8kpBmI04Fq99AzJc5Qg8D-k04JXoM2-bi88uE-ha7_niEDLjl04w_grvy2Hwv9/s3484/strava.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3484" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1C9A0BTSij42L4g_dFnwQyerrwX5VuoNEI2zBFJFmjn-9ut4ud-d8VdQ0KXRSdyFSH6JBlXIQZVWgj_xLAMBwPEPBJr3i4Ke3vBcPiRh3BGBh4xIeYhGTjiqkdq8kpBmI04Fq99AzJc5Qg8D-k04JXoM2-bi88uE-ha7_niEDLjl04w_grvy2Hwv9/s320/strava.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">For days now there had been forecasts of rain which had not really manifested. Suddenly, though, we were at Day 5 - half way through the whole walk, and the rain came. There had been a downpour before we left MariCarmen's house and I think we were hoping that might be it. We had packed our raincoats (we're not complete idiots) and we had had our breakfast (I am now belatedly thinking, was there the usual plate of meat at breakfast? Maybe not. Maybe she had catered to our request to be vegetarians and we never even noticed! Feeling super-guilty now.) Our lunch rolls were wrapped up in tinfoil and were still warm, filled with tortilla. I had one last go at trying to make her love us, or at least warm to us, but there was nothing. No love. She didn't love us. Why should she? Had we not just recently been laughing about her kind hospitality? Had Peter not gone so far as to start referring to her house as "The Bates Motel". She didn't love us and she would never love us. It was unbearable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was about 19 minutes into our walking day when the skies opened and a torrential rain hit us. Peter doesn't know this but as soon as I'd got my own coat over me - which was nearer the top of my pack than his, I manfully covered his back while he screamed his displeasure and dug frantically for his coat and his camera case. If his camera got a soaking and stopped working, life wouldn't be worth living for anyone. Thankfully the camera was saved and we got our coats on, and before long the sky had cleared and rainbows were jumping around the sky.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was never warm though - we'd worn 2 t-shirts in anticipation that it was going to be cooler. It made for good marching weather and I was still feeling in fine fettle physically, so we stormed along, and even overtook and then dropped the opposition (although it wasn't a race, obviously.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy5FERiixmYhTs7CHpln36OgfPF4hwKYxVIg5Uj3PoIAN0KHbRMBDAiYyprF6PUDYALcugeaDriQJa-wMlBqg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivFESGQThsrD4YopqQthiXWpJUixnz7dDysF7adnoYlFPPfymmCrzBVdXS_yMSLGAJEU18j4-kJmZdkAaOmFyAXqFCzN8nHQ2vy9uUFrHF31l8rrFFr5RWRx-zub1JwlqN79LmwYGDg-p152nDSO_ALD01NrHa8B1Se35DcqMAq-8EOrcQ7K9ayILs/s3000/001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1736" data-original-width="3000" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivFESGQThsrD4YopqQthiXWpJUixnz7dDysF7adnoYlFPPfymmCrzBVdXS_yMSLGAJEU18j4-kJmZdkAaOmFyAXqFCzN8nHQ2vy9uUFrHF31l8rrFFr5RWRx-zub1JwlqN79LmwYGDg-p152nDSO_ALD01NrHa8B1Se35DcqMAq-8EOrcQ7K9ayILs/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkz0roN7LI8r2td3EjngWYtHeOw_eKQcDk-cDutHrOlOGrSFqbH75XUFkllgpWyLZ_dz5R9EEBO-9zy7GNxK0KlM0nS4o-9iFoOUN7Vc5EdVl8btRpE8GlvYcKp3XYXR39paXK_9zQ91v4vIsYJ8LQXvIJ4bbOOyY6xKnlXEoErVMccrDd02EQZUB/s3000/002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2333" data-original-width="3000" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkz0roN7LI8r2td3EjngWYtHeOw_eKQcDk-cDutHrOlOGrSFqbH75XUFkllgpWyLZ_dz5R9EEBO-9zy7GNxK0KlM0nS4o-9iFoOUN7Vc5EdVl8btRpE8GlvYcKp3XYXR39paXK_9zQ91v4vIsYJ8LQXvIJ4bbOOyY6xKnlXEoErVMccrDd02EQZUB/s320/002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCbKQ18isoIkc1QyhnU1kSRBmOIoTgIJevChSozZ-A-ENa515vxkVBu920-25Sec7-0JWZ2DYA9CREHHnEIcvaC2zwOrCB17TiGtTIbepbEfqcVkXUuDHTl21gqoHQGDiGtESK1U6bOkRaXQASZCr-wmRpY1WYARC0us9p5sb_1-82iSUIqC0PmCu/s3000/003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1703" data-original-width="3000" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCbKQ18isoIkc1QyhnU1kSRBmOIoTgIJevChSozZ-A-ENa515vxkVBu920-25Sec7-0JWZ2DYA9CREHHnEIcvaC2zwOrCB17TiGtTIbepbEfqcVkXUuDHTl21gqoHQGDiGtESK1U6bOkRaXQASZCr-wmRpY1WYARC0us9p5sb_1-82iSUIqC0PmCu/s320/003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAXlmtD0_yHO_Abt3Q1gP7yLb5gvUOajIbLh3cEV4x3Gl10YdJ6s8tJGwe5s0FLq8WTKvsaZlMa9IVTQ678VJ_tuVjR-kOHmTWmHxTvPGpR2JbguRfybwrWUNvoOxjQHKHXAbERszviAN4XisQFzFGB-UwaDtlvsC7KBF3dtd-2dpemcxns6jOUN2/s3000/005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1764" data-original-width="3000" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAXlmtD0_yHO_Abt3Q1gP7yLb5gvUOajIbLh3cEV4x3Gl10YdJ6s8tJGwe5s0FLq8WTKvsaZlMa9IVTQ678VJ_tuVjR-kOHmTWmHxTvPGpR2JbguRfybwrWUNvoOxjQHKHXAbERszviAN4XisQFzFGB-UwaDtlvsC7KBF3dtd-2dpemcxns6jOUN2/s320/005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I think the path had been described as troublesome until the English Cemetery after which it would be easier walking. I was finding it all easy-peasy and enjoyed taunting the more serious booted and poled runners by just popping past them.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXA8Y_dnZAaKGU5g1UCVBXbFEjEFWfFfh-HZcyXEugaycvTr-jZAE_llnpdfRMQVExtHJhVeGqUqLl7hq3mq9zONjyMk0s5QoUYH-2fMvaW3yqfQQ3f5LgsrDSslaT30zXcMOSNiS72GIEo3ZM9QGfoY4MLtY6sgQSgvrQlFpnQEJwfYtBhhDiVbqc/s3000/006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1910" data-original-width="3000" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXA8Y_dnZAaKGU5g1UCVBXbFEjEFWfFfh-HZcyXEugaycvTr-jZAE_llnpdfRMQVExtHJhVeGqUqLl7hq3mq9zONjyMk0s5QoUYH-2fMvaW3yqfQQ3f5LgsrDSslaT30zXcMOSNiS72GIEo3ZM9QGfoY4MLtY6sgQSgvrQlFpnQEJwfYtBhhDiVbqc/s320/006.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The English Cemetery came surprisingly soon, and we didn't hang around as it was draughty. I think the story is that a big English battleship went down on a stormy night as it couldn't see the lighthouse they had then, which led to the building of a much larger lighthouse to prevent any such disaster happening again.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlIGOyXHSYc5MkjzPYaqqN8_9MXD-9bHjZjNWiNnT8oNAyIyNOBDk6HfHqf_N7O1mxIwGYMOU3wHU_M-hZerN8wZnM5NPIgYoPNRXP_bxQZ8SsTNkz8oJ_BEhsSQRz1PU0VLpBcfzSjn_c9uq8ezs9WSGcIwIif0zViHaKHyYZaghZB9_wuc3w-yv/s3000/007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1731" data-original-width="3000" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlIGOyXHSYc5MkjzPYaqqN8_9MXD-9bHjZjNWiNnT8oNAyIyNOBDk6HfHqf_N7O1mxIwGYMOU3wHU_M-hZerN8wZnM5NPIgYoPNRXP_bxQZ8SsTNkz8oJ_BEhsSQRz1PU0VLpBcfzSjn_c9uq8ezs9WSGcIwIif0zViHaKHyYZaghZB9_wuc3w-yv/s320/007.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I didn't know it yet but at this point I'd given myself a blister marching in wet socks and shoes and probably karma for MariCarmen and then for being cheeky to the other walkers and then not paying enough respect at the English Cemetery. Sigh.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1BWBPSPySNE21m3Sd66Skjur62Glxwn1Oui0PQh8azknbMMsbcKA5-RQehR0mtqZ53NQrZVbxIpi58UW3Uf7jNGAS5YQUUHdwnI9oF_S6qgC2x6J98HcenKIPolTssOlyq7MEXAM5L4k78mmdzquS2JBuIPzjbzeTdNqMgBP4TCE_qhhUfr5FyTfu/s3000/021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1683" data-original-width="3000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1BWBPSPySNE21m3Sd66Skjur62Glxwn1Oui0PQh8azknbMMsbcKA5-RQehR0mtqZ53NQrZVbxIpi58UW3Uf7jNGAS5YQUUHdwnI9oF_S6qgC2x6J98HcenKIPolTssOlyq7MEXAM5L4k78mmdzquS2JBuIPzjbzeTdNqMgBP4TCE_qhhUfr5FyTfu/s320/021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfbhFuNsMB0tWeJgcsKokvR1Y9WnI5paFlsP4pZ7vDSjL6tyL62iZ6fZFhGHJvYIqzrBNw370TIrh7v8M2_Fc0h-vh-SxeNpuVF6obqb4KnY_1X3MqGmb5bWGwv1hnVgKZabfCL2hopkdjKNon-zdFqxooZmX9i28bUhr1qPsfECZ0aG83XeH1iTq/s3000/022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1891" data-original-width="3000" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfbhFuNsMB0tWeJgcsKokvR1Y9WnI5paFlsP4pZ7vDSjL6tyL62iZ6fZFhGHJvYIqzrBNw370TIrh7v8M2_Fc0h-vh-SxeNpuVF6obqb4KnY_1X3MqGmb5bWGwv1hnVgKZabfCL2hopkdjKNon-zdFqxooZmX9i28bUhr1qPsfECZ0aG83XeH1iTq/s320/022.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheQo8DCmTgkdvEeCBTFiGq4tQtSiq6ecMoSNDo4tJu6HVRm4GZDqdjG3cOdMZ1pnovNqki9i1QB1W97ly11IyLtt8ir3NbnDJYn8Mu4WW-pbZcmXUvRqLncEOprySv1WD-xD-haPRTgipHIZ8qKHTlL4LVIhu9Mlk-ivw6Y83FDloNK4CMGn5pMK5H/s3000/023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2009" data-original-width="3000" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheQo8DCmTgkdvEeCBTFiGq4tQtSiq6ecMoSNDo4tJu6HVRm4GZDqdjG3cOdMZ1pnovNqki9i1QB1W97ly11IyLtt8ir3NbnDJYn8Mu4WW-pbZcmXUvRqLncEOprySv1WD-xD-haPRTgipHIZ8qKHTlL4LVIhu9Mlk-ivw6Y83FDloNK4CMGn5pMK5H/s320/023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One of my favourite things about the whole walk was all these empty roads winding into the distance. They give me a feeling of...ah....freedom, adventure, moving forwards, mystery, surprises....delightful. To hell with the Romans and their straight roads. Give me a road that winds. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw_Pz0o0C27veSDEtYaGVr7AwpwWekgaVm9vT6KZUcxDoxc6bMKeceBuX0ixFNraNAs-ccq1v4YUh3QfWCvQvICRItNXIo_ZVKSE6UxQLU66vTB24KDW7HbZ6nmRK668z9boLYVwXpvi2FxS4cR8A8whNp2ERolp8qcOrfZeDRGEPRYIMqHKiCTjZC/s3000/024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1975" data-original-width="3000" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw_Pz0o0C27veSDEtYaGVr7AwpwWekgaVm9vT6KZUcxDoxc6bMKeceBuX0ixFNraNAs-ccq1v4YUh3QfWCvQvICRItNXIo_ZVKSE6UxQLU66vTB24KDW7HbZ6nmRK668z9boLYVwXpvi2FxS4cR8A8whNp2ERolp8qcOrfZeDRGEPRYIMqHKiCTjZC/s320/024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfl6Lf3c4j78K3hO5VGUPFVtP8B9ZipxXkw1ZqzXe-1xRg0KPueOjEqSkmtqoisZED3Sfb6jgobDZG66DdGx3GwIQnPRFor5W5vbTv-wqSzzWnKTpjSrThtSA1blFXEZMfUHsS7nXWx7UVwZILrKt7TBSgz1R5PGqnkU4DNWFjx5wHJCx_8sQI7Xm7/s3000/025.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1752" data-original-width="3000" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfl6Lf3c4j78K3hO5VGUPFVtP8B9ZipxXkw1ZqzXe-1xRg0KPueOjEqSkmtqoisZED3Sfb6jgobDZG66DdGx3GwIQnPRFor5W5vbTv-wqSzzWnKTpjSrThtSA1blFXEZMfUHsS7nXWx7UVwZILrKt7TBSgz1R5PGqnkU4DNWFjx5wHJCx_8sQI7Xm7/s320/025.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXudx_nlvXGE2J4Whme8e2Qvqu672V7y2hE_zxDs1LhFWv6JRtvtQklyU54xish9NGd5f34qSE-1oXd-S0196w1i7WUw6H0uJv10WtSsIenhwX60a7Z87b-a4_mKHZOIDXwz_Q1OFYcJhQTUoFcTey1Aq_NuXeXXaY0Sm3snaJ4WuMyYKGTaO7X-Mh/s3000/026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="3000" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXudx_nlvXGE2J4Whme8e2Qvqu672V7y2hE_zxDs1LhFWv6JRtvtQklyU54xish9NGd5f34qSE-1oXd-S0196w1i7WUw6H0uJv10WtSsIenhwX60a7Z87b-a4_mKHZOIDXwz_Q1OFYcJhQTUoFcTey1Aq_NuXeXXaY0Sm3snaJ4WuMyYKGTaO7X-Mh/s320/026.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkl2QVkQIC7c5P5pL3D8rEbExC-ya_r3r9ML_A3L1El7IdghGoiUb3p0uzAsshVUo_gRxRUrBF6eAHGG17s86oP0-moWhuX-2QjlHLwmxivMUqVmJx3gM84Fo3TOJ8Gc1CTpLZ6eHHbKNT4UmNgKdx7xsyyyp6mDZeN7HX0kUT_sN5qUx4o_ezQGBU/s4928/027.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4928" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkl2QVkQIC7c5P5pL3D8rEbExC-ya_r3r9ML_A3L1El7IdghGoiUb3p0uzAsshVUo_gRxRUrBF6eAHGG17s86oP0-moWhuX-2QjlHLwmxivMUqVmJx3gM84Fo3TOJ8Gc1CTpLZ6eHHbKNT4UmNgKdx7xsyyyp6mDZeN7HX0kUT_sN5qUx4o_ezQGBU/s320/027.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSyPCuzW2wvL0LAjMhbFeJrFiOFsTAhBOGdKtw_IPYVYu7Cc2B8WQVi69qHuVEtpHU0exs_o6DC9bjsQFOOpYIpetyc0syaYfci92AxVd_gnjZGrdDFzZjduG7QgxCaffE9FdCeGjBPELQtzLQly9qbV5bkGEtSX9yr2dFk1oqfHJ71fM5042MdRsH/s3000/028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2033" data-original-width="3000" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSyPCuzW2wvL0LAjMhbFeJrFiOFsTAhBOGdKtw_IPYVYu7Cc2B8WQVi69qHuVEtpHU0exs_o6DC9bjsQFOOpYIpetyc0syaYfci92AxVd_gnjZGrdDFzZjduG7QgxCaffE9FdCeGjBPELQtzLQly9qbV5bkGEtSX9yr2dFk1oqfHJ71fM5042MdRsH/s320/028.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After a while the current winding road arrived us at this big, famous lighthouse. Okay, I'll look up the name,,,,The Cape Vilan lighthouse. There are facts about it. Peter had been teasing me that there'd be a cafe here and then telling me all the things I'd get - and then telling me it was closed. What an absolute fool. When he and Nick were there, he said, there was something there, but it was closed. Maybe there'd be a cafe. As we neared it we saw that the door was open and so we stepped inside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I'd been out in the wind for so long I had to gather my thoughts to even begin to try to communicate, so in retrospect, rather oddly, when we entered the building, we turned our backs to the woman at the desk and looked for some time at some posters on the wall. Or pretended to. Then I thought of something to say. I said it in Spanish but I'll translate it for you because you're probably not as fluent as me. I said - do we need tickets to enter here?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In solid English she said something like "Yes you do. It costs 1 euro each. You cannot climb the lighthouse and the information is given in Spanish and not translated." Having come so far it just seemed the right thing to do to hand over our euros and drift in, although we didn't really know what for. There was a toilet there, so I used that. There was no cafe, and there was some art which Peter declared bad, and some big burnt out lightbulbs. There didn't seem to be a reason to buy a shopping bag with the Cape Vilan lighthouse printed on it. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Peter had been telling me some story about how Nick had made them go up to a church for no reason, adding in an extra hill towards the end of a long day's running. He doesn't like a church and I think at the time had felt this was extra work he didn't need. As luck would have it, our route had been changed so now it DID go up to the church. At the top of the hill there was a van and a skulking untrustworthy looking black dog, just about the height of a man's groin. It came over and gave Peter a good sniff, not wagging its tail and not friendly. We had to think that if it was a TERRIBLE dog the owners, having seen us, would have called it to them. It didn't do anything but it seemed like it was letting Peter know it could if it liked. I was mighty glad to get down the other side of the hill. So we didn't spend a lot of time on the church.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgZVI5BdfO0GYzFBkWM29yvHCY1VPzatOxOFOjkrZavNjil66RpSGxtPXU30T9L7WBl_Srv8OuJCYRH_O_5gZNlGhydzzct-V85x8afDPdEF79nZkK9p_Cbip0G5aQe-Fuem948ZmQIwjkJOeiGLRTt-RIuntX5wSqLQb-kDCcn-PkV3Aqel1jClzr/s3000/035.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2058" data-original-width="3000" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgZVI5BdfO0GYzFBkWM29yvHCY1VPzatOxOFOjkrZavNjil66RpSGxtPXU30T9L7WBl_Srv8OuJCYRH_O_5gZNlGhydzzct-V85x8afDPdEF79nZkK9p_Cbip0G5aQe-Fuem948ZmQIwjkJOeiGLRTt-RIuntX5wSqLQb-kDCcn-PkV3Aqel1jClzr/s320/035.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Peter tells me this is a fire beetle. V cool.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGhUFVaSARzQJ5jsWBDLWNrwL5k2Yab1QpLeVB9xwvJzj3cQcDYIPLrUWQek5pj6WP6EVVoCAZCQUJTrqLB0FEx5VKCW5A7GG6QNwoSZUyu4ry0HVPfnYu3fkALyyP7-4rIOdayCS3BeKq1JyUQ15IaIll9IvN3Lt3HP_6ryRe1ej0bD5m88PypEkZ/s3000/036.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2211" data-original-width="3000" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGhUFVaSARzQJ5jsWBDLWNrwL5k2Yab1QpLeVB9xwvJzj3cQcDYIPLrUWQek5pj6WP6EVVoCAZCQUJTrqLB0FEx5VKCW5A7GG6QNwoSZUyu4ry0HVPfnYu3fkALyyP7-4rIOdayCS3BeKq1JyUQ15IaIll9IvN3Lt3HP_6ryRe1ej0bD5m88PypEkZ/s320/036.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-7NvyC7OUWlE-K9uGcrAwZJkmM_up8jR84qkEqssE0tv5aIPBsoKBH0hjKHUbmsfHnJsUyTWDABXuNL3TW0JP4Q9DezoyYtBNxelxj3NNHl90k9xm4X4nVMijPc06PKL2iseYJlG9I8LEI6QPGtunSKboxoOVIKohpVWot5v037YDN6DRRXvcpus/s3000/037.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2273" data-original-width="3000" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-7NvyC7OUWlE-K9uGcrAwZJkmM_up8jR84qkEqssE0tv5aIPBsoKBH0hjKHUbmsfHnJsUyTWDABXuNL3TW0JP4Q9DezoyYtBNxelxj3NNHl90k9xm4X4nVMijPc06PKL2iseYJlG9I8LEI6QPGtunSKboxoOVIKohpVWot5v037YDN6DRRXvcpus/s320/037.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2gf4f2AS0Wvj8jiw1zpcqxFhmsGSIkHASPEPkRA-dAvRzIBTCF22qVYgpMYaC5IUezrLUUZZHppwEZAd93f_jgf4d0kVVRSckGg2x7A8Q7Ad-wqG6-KE4HRAB5XRvj2hJSpabVNXHi7tKSh76GFVV_PZoC1GNGAw0c3-1WyyKyRMdpI9QYJcmVSZ/s4929/038.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4929" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx2gf4f2AS0Wvj8jiw1zpcqxFhmsGSIkHASPEPkRA-dAvRzIBTCF22qVYgpMYaC5IUezrLUUZZHppwEZAd93f_jgf4d0kVVRSckGg2x7A8Q7Ad-wqG6-KE4HRAB5XRvj2hJSpabVNXHi7tKSh76GFVV_PZoC1GNGAw0c3-1WyyKyRMdpI9QYJcmVSZ/s320/038.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zlDHnuPk1VlyViRbhrbQnEoiUo_c3XU4Qc997PfjwAXzf5tDkBQ__N1MQEiLRRQaLhzf7M5xFXRWli5HVO_saxRbWXUXZWu_JO3fRUHY2v1msC8MMvmxwHgOzecMf2HLcaY8Ehr1QgugA1OXgQKjxlQRrff-pOvCY9E1BHXoa-d2vPIGa2gF4i9O/s3000/039.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2148" data-original-width="3000" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zlDHnuPk1VlyViRbhrbQnEoiUo_c3XU4Qc997PfjwAXzf5tDkBQ__N1MQEiLRRQaLhzf7M5xFXRWli5HVO_saxRbWXUXZWu_JO3fRUHY2v1msC8MMvmxwHgOzecMf2HLcaY8Ehr1QgugA1OXgQKjxlQRrff-pOvCY9E1BHXoa-d2vPIGa2gF4i9O/s320/039.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It had been a long day out and coming into Camarinas we were keenly anticipating getting some food and beer and a shower and then going out later and eating and drinking more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We had had a good-tempered day, but now I could feel my blister, and my feet were sore in general. We badly needed something to eat - and Peter, who gets the hangry much worse than me, was starting to flip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was cruel, to be fair. We'd just missed all the afternoon food - the whole town smelled of fish and chips but presumably that had all been eaten for lunch. It was Sunday and apparently that's a big eat-out-for-lunch family day. The family must have eaten everything in town anyway - none of the bars had snacks and there were no food shops. We made it into town around about 4pm and to cut a long story short, couldn't get anything to eat until 8pm. We had an ill-advised beer but that made tempers flair even further. When we did finally go out to eat we weren't on our best form or in our best moods. We had a waitress who I quite liked because she was laid back but she was irritating Peter because she was - I don't know - maybe enjoying the role of being a waitress more than reliably delivering food to our table. I can see his point. We asked her what all the different kinds of meat were and they all turned out to be pork, but taken from different parts of poor piggy - so we had a plate of raxo which is from - one part of the pig - that with potatoes so thinly cut and then fried that they were nearly crisps. We had decided to share this dish but we had put it away in minutes so we had a plate of some other kind of pork to follow - which was a shame because it wasn't as good as the first one. We also had a couple of glasses of quality red wine and we went from ratchety and annoyed with each other to fine. I can see why people drink. It works and it works quickly!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We also went from empty to full super-quick so by the time the waitress came by with the postres menu, we were done, and headed back to our hotel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At the hotel we were able to buy more red wine and did. We had developed a mighty thirst for red wine. Peter tried to go and get another glass once we were back up in our room, but this time was told no. And it was just as jolly well because it was a school night.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Maybe all this was a distraction from looking after my blister properly - in fact it definitely was. I just hoped it would go away.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-3016971960958978942022-10-08T15:33:00.000+01:002022-10-08T15:33:29.453+01:00Walking the Lighthouse Way Day 4<p> </p><p>Before we get started I just want to say that we're just back from Holyrood Parkrun and I managed to shave a little sliver off September's time, despite having at least 2 weeks of not running. I promised myself I would pace it, as last time I was having to slow down while running downhill. That's a terrible waste of gravity!</p><p>It is so good to be able to run again, it was nice to meet Emily who said hello before the start, and it was good to see Steve Crane and John Blair, who were running conservatively because they've been out the game for a while. I'm sorry I couldn't speak to either of you while running, but I just can't!!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbpfGmiizy3luaWqW0Xg75jkYjLokS8Xv6yU_HBYrYMMaC__eMhhLyPWjU6SyA1zqcPxISPK5J8cRBa29zPe-fxZNoTrMUPJyPPcLWSdWNdEMZ3t0ncYKyZU228T2CgwYF_WIaFePZ8MZleF1b4QpybgpUAsv5u1R8nKfibAEW6oVUjn8M-IiyNuP/s3616/strava.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3616" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbpfGmiizy3luaWqW0Xg75jkYjLokS8Xv6yU_HBYrYMMaC__eMhhLyPWjU6SyA1zqcPxISPK5J8cRBa29zPe-fxZNoTrMUPJyPPcLWSdWNdEMZ3t0ncYKyZU228T2CgwYF_WIaFePZ8MZleF1b4QpybgpUAsv5u1R8nKfibAEW6oVUjn8M-IiyNuP/s320/strava.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So, looking at the photos, I think this was my favourite day of walking. Waking up and finding my feet were okay and had recovered (not completely, but the thing is they were useable) - gave me a burst of optimism. An unusual warm feeling that maybe things are going to be alright! Breakfast at the Laxe hotel was also good. It was a buffet with lots of good things and no interference from staff at all and as much coffee and juice as I wanted, which was a lot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Outside the sun was out and the world was looking lovely.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDWyIlWG74qeUoXOoF8XP1rxaFnUfkkThQ6qvEwKKYvaoSNRmRFo-vuDp4zkPKCo6Wqi4BLC5sis-f8dJyq2OOFG5_fjMvfeg6faONf6Nzfk5LXrIHfvGeykKwSTYXztJLnREfuqIGWjhGF5FAV3Nbup2v__q7kXSrenon4Oki2-yY9fjWR-dHFLB/s3000/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1648" data-original-width="3000" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDWyIlWG74qeUoXOoF8XP1rxaFnUfkkThQ6qvEwKKYvaoSNRmRFo-vuDp4zkPKCo6Wqi4BLC5sis-f8dJyq2OOFG5_fjMvfeg6faONf6Nzfk5LXrIHfvGeykKwSTYXztJLnREfuqIGWjhGF5FAV3Nbup2v__q7kXSrenon4Oki2-yY9fjWR-dHFLB/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">An early red admiral came out to say Good Morning which is a good omen for the day.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid9_exSXijBXs_w_0jZtGXiD6g8tAMMdDm728RAaUCeVPrUEmLb7FHoezKvYXRncn2wT9dCTsPHGtpJF6HcR921OL7LakCab3g7QTDKIYETjXUCJtg7DuoLA60zVZ0gm2aFnGuDXGtnTI4f20HjRMyka7Z476K1Xxp_LScwPZGUga5eeBfL3H5jos7/s3000/005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2002" data-original-width="3000" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid9_exSXijBXs_w_0jZtGXiD6g8tAMMdDm728RAaUCeVPrUEmLb7FHoezKvYXRncn2wT9dCTsPHGtpJF6HcR921OL7LakCab3g7QTDKIYETjXUCJtg7DuoLA60zVZ0gm2aFnGuDXGtnTI4f20HjRMyka7Z476K1Xxp_LScwPZGUga5eeBfL3H5jos7/s320/005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSqFLcjCBRuWQe2aDgT5acOdL5ubZxYPe_FovGXrGN4_23wVlVjHJ-lRjE6oBiImJyFO4WYwv30QEA1Z2Rw4CEk-5VFY_o9-IfxHrgyWe6otqYS-X2--0Y3giZs29l14TPubb7eREUigWKYn352gY79VbmzaCILs8tB072chZmtcZYFX2rTAKMiG7d/s3000/006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2074" data-original-width="3000" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTFHnTYEQ_VuXd9_5Ce-nKP1N8_Q1FiOLtf_Pu7dCJL6Ebu2MJc8xcl3e52ou3yWmXnbwQuBLU5Z31HHKFIAaCmusOxgiKviI-xvW6z5l3EwwEywuPGVjau_okzRs5NLrIHrbs-Pr9HYqIiZHKnt1vk7XAs7FwT1W81aEbysWRe6uZ87WQGxUYNY0Z/s320/009.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another day, another lighthouse. I asked this one how it was doing but it just looked at me with its solar panel eyes and kept its grey mouth shut.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcWmoxkDs1JNVjtcIVAFg_KLaC5rsq5uyKfJVyzXYjRC5SpWaatCNJZtjLBO6OmYHRnZHAD7xULm6AiYZ0rA61sGThSAU7_zWwZvMHcYlih7p6nEiCfzUoh38AEZisg7cppMzvaWwi8Df4ItnsFBB9zD9BE4LQ7sO17YP5OWNQoYcP-h-qk8KqRAOC/s3000/011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="3000" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcWmoxkDs1JNVjtcIVAFg_KLaC5rsq5uyKfJVyzXYjRC5SpWaatCNJZtjLBO6OmYHRnZHAD7xULm6AiYZ0rA61sGThSAU7_zWwZvMHcYlih7p6nEiCfzUoh38AEZisg7cppMzvaWwi8Df4ItnsFBB9zD9BE4LQ7sO17YP5OWNQoYcP-h-qk8KqRAOC/s320/011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkBIFoHvoP6lot0Yi0Bd7Ek_Rn1PzmP52voegbR77PIirKkwGJ6AqYTQQHOY7PPFfdsiMPlhUmYjauRwOD1IiH0vyGo0iqVm8CzGl2P-FOJ7Tw7JKGz1nxAC3fiLN20gQsZAob_KLqCrFYoSqeVCtLFR-56S1VAroCNpK_VhwuP45i1j5TeLBOpai/s3000/012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1722" data-original-width="3000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkBIFoHvoP6lot0Yi0Bd7Ek_Rn1PzmP52voegbR77PIirKkwGJ6AqYTQQHOY7PPFfdsiMPlhUmYjauRwOD1IiH0vyGo0iqVm8CzGl2P-FOJ7Tw7JKGz1nxAC3fiLN20gQsZAob_KLqCrFYoSqeVCtLFR-56S1VAroCNpK_VhwuP45i1j5TeLBOpai/s320/012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShwSTTBoupheAN1xHDSo0DO_WNACC_f1dz89we9AakLHDgGQ3jbgBkj0V_swhHrC7Xq9SKKznl6g0DhDG3ScWAnijvDF1h1HR0dV8tXVBdFQjRdtt4rUARwQLn71ZZ0f7taejHOY-KsDj3VQessgSnw_uYJaPs-FnOEdyGF4nvOEEo6pcbegdX6kA/s3000/013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1706" data-original-width="3000" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShwSTTBoupheAN1xHDSo0DO_WNACC_f1dz89we9AakLHDgGQ3jbgBkj0V_swhHrC7Xq9SKKznl6g0DhDG3ScWAnijvDF1h1HR0dV8tXVBdFQjRdtt4rUARwQLn71ZZ0f7taejHOY-KsDj3VQessgSnw_uYJaPs-FnOEdyGF4nvOEEo6pcbegdX6kA/s320/013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vxe7ZKNbDZB8GwHEpXQ2E3aLcur48pJrQ4Hxi6Hh9CQXRGVPsRTw3Oo1FtYxI60vxsVHHZXeBjY0nsu-wC9CWNEb1ilEObeJBtd1n4xc2OtXmGyo-kyBE9RcQv_Tch3VJdy_VuUjaK38IpAQfbLwul_EDQONc7Tad0VzZxfCJwJPehGV66C76loF/s3000/014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2187" data-original-width="3000" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vxe7ZKNbDZB8GwHEpXQ2E3aLcur48pJrQ4Hxi6Hh9CQXRGVPsRTw3Oo1FtYxI60vxsVHHZXeBjY0nsu-wC9CWNEb1ilEObeJBtd1n4xc2OtXmGyo-kyBE9RcQv_Tch3VJdy_VuUjaK38IpAQfbLwul_EDQONc7Tad0VzZxfCJwJPehGV66C76loF/s320/014.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This dog was called Bob. I had a chat with the owner in Spanish, and because he didn't pressure me I settled in and had the most proper conversation ever in Spanish. He asked about our agenda and I managed to tell him I didn't know, we were just following instructions from one day to the next and he got it! At this point I asked him what his dog was called and he told me it was Bob. I only realised later that I hadn't asked him his name. He said Bob liked Peter and he wanted to play - which was more than evident.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpqgp3xGroejJYXn2JVVbR2uUIXoj3FPr6MGsBpq2NpPEjPZ3BkTA8WuIkAAG5WGIiZAFSCn6NUBYIlZlGa25VA0mHwOE1m007iNLqaL6TVPEjsU7liMLXwKSkm2zDW7YpJ1A5KVEbZBVBwrUzjOK92lcFfx4MCD6V4SXdgNFcrk-T8X4R58OLlaFV/s3000/016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1802" data-original-width="3000" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpqgp3xGroejJYXn2JVVbR2uUIXoj3FPr6MGsBpq2NpPEjPZ3BkTA8WuIkAAG5WGIiZAFSCn6NUBYIlZlGa25VA0mHwOE1m007iNLqaL6TVPEjsU7liMLXwKSkm2zDW7YpJ1A5KVEbZBVBwrUzjOK92lcFfx4MCD6V4SXdgNFcrk-T8X4R58OLlaFV/s320/016.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdmE6mIooPrS-VMVgFLCMphe3uE0-mEJduqxAjZsys96iSTbTipOizz6IMH6YizULd0l3RjXjwElmyGp0odyKVzUlSVOnc5fjc5CwwDOUpOqV9XWlUZAUcQOVNAMopadIGKiu-dwU5xipqOCxrDOk3RGpTQnBH7IOzSBPaSQY3nBuTn1cqJkbLahd/s3000/017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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You don't have to tell me twice. Some of the beaches looked glorious but I never felt like stripping off and taking the plunge. I don't know what has happened to my swimmo-jo. Maybe I need a reason.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKQOayVRULYftIV90ganec_25nUazawIFr2pJPGpxLWefwpg_d7ry49tTTDurSKshHGzvPQvxNb8GAVtEtoeEqzdsBMfSSmy8JVZlrTWGP12Q8KjljGBsr0T_Zk3NjUCiPr2VW5eCib04_T-QSHh2wOM-FIQzfRHMC1-dF7LbS_FDHFBlSvJjUg8H/s3000/027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2006" data-original-width="3000" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKQOayVRULYftIV90ganec_25nUazawIFr2pJPGpxLWefwpg_d7ry49tTTDurSKshHGzvPQvxNb8GAVtEtoeEqzdsBMfSSmy8JVZlrTWGP12Q8KjljGBsr0T_Zk3NjUCiPr2VW5eCib04_T-QSHh2wOM-FIQzfRHMC1-dF7LbS_FDHFBlSvJjUg8H/s320/027.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At the far end of that beach...or at some stage...there was a section that had been flagged up as being possibly difficult. It was going through boulders, and the On Foot Holiday people had provided an alternative path in case this was too challenging. I had been careful, careful, careful, cautious every step of the way but I really wanted to go the bolder boulder way! So I did. And it was fine. I didn't do any leaping from rock to rock but I didn't do any damage either. It was such a relief not to just drag along being totally lame every inch of the way. There's a place for that but sometimes I feel like Morty of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVVoC20Z0w4&list=RDCMUCgPClNr5VSYC3syrDUIlzLw&index=35" target="_blank">Rick and Morty</a>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0g-M5nt-uILgBMq2Uh9jWqZAfsJcePHPU2VgeQV2gzdKFdUIDhF9o75kCMOn57iMnW7v9WJdZ1rkKm3R7Y0BwfYLZQGGDRSWn341cyGbPzMoKrmmAuk6glBhqDmnajpnZhbf_Vc6Ja_CTnWe2n0zZXrA9ExBKH5aRZNcqwHVirRbW90t_LssQQgiT/s3000/028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1796" data-original-width="3000" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0g-M5nt-uILgBMq2Uh9jWqZAfsJcePHPU2VgeQV2gzdKFdUIDhF9o75kCMOn57iMnW7v9WJdZ1rkKm3R7Y0BwfYLZQGGDRSWn341cyGbPzMoKrmmAuk6glBhqDmnajpnZhbf_Vc6Ja_CTnWe2n0zZXrA9ExBKH5aRZNcqwHVirRbW90t_LssQQgiT/s320/028.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It had felt like an easy day and we were chipper as we arrived in Arou.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As we arrived in Arou, (not yet being sure that was where we were) we met a walker we'd seen before. She was Spanish. I asked her where Arou was and she pointed at the board we were standing beside which said "Arou", and we all had a laugh. She was waiting for a taxi to take her back along the coast, but on our behalf, and unasked, she asked the taxi driver where Mari Carmen stayed, our lodgings for the night being called MariCarmen's House.The taxi driver phoned Mari Carmen and then told us to head along to the end of the board walk, about 5 minutes walk. We did this, and found her. She gave a friendly wave as we approached and then....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And then it was the strangest thing, but it was cold. The house was cold. Mari Carmen was friendly and gave us everything that she should give us, but somehow she lacked warmth. It was like she was depressed, and the house was depressed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In the place where we stayed there was an odd mismatch of styles and times. It feels so ungrateful to say anything about it here and it did at the time. I felt an odd split on the whole journey, because in my heart I was generally grateful for all the kindnesses we were shown, but the head has a different view. Peter and I whispered to each other about the room. We were both stone cold and I felt a bit paranoid, like I was being watched.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I think the likeliest explanation was that Mari Carmen's severe and controlling mother had died in our bed and was now keeping a watchful eye on anyone who stepped insdie the house.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Dinner was being served on the premises, so when the time came we went down to eat. This took place in a large, stone room, poorly lit, and with nobody else in it except MC and someone in the kitchen who was having prolonged bouts of coughing. It sounded like a man.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">MC gestured us to a table in the farthest corner, which had been set. There was a light over our table which made the rest of the place seem even darker. There was a large stone fireplace but no fire. We both kept our coats on. We ordered wine and tried to strike up a conversation within our small realm of light but really it was like we were pushing against a force-field of silence and disconnection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The food was really good and I said so, and MC smiled, but only for a nano-second.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I started to think about how the pandemic had probably hit them hard. Maybe MC and her father, who was currently dying (in my imagination) in the kitchen, had invested the very last of their money on this business and then the lockdown came.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Maybe MC was the only daughter and she had given up her own life to come back and look after her ailing and controlling father.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Whatever it was there was a chilling atmosphere. We squeezed 2 glasses of red out of her - again - lovely, and if I'd had the courage I would have tried to buy another bottle to drink upstairs, but I didn't have the courage. Then we beat a retreat to our room under the disapproving gaze of unseen watchers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Peter whispered to me on the stairs "Why do I feel really sad?" and I thought. "Oh! He has feelings!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOvLNnAcdcmeUPA0R9luR3QgkUFaSWe3Zb-iDGhyMjkKDNjQJS7W5-IBMtOS6YLyC-AUn-TgDL2ft-ddvMpj7s_lg_z7mCXFRXDCZQCAv5Rt0Mm5cj9LZAxIoTtyhiy57lqlodZy_FozhWbSeMK3I9iH-d_f5J5cvQ-zryNOqndqXD8bcWSMHxk_B/s3000/055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2124" data-original-width="3000" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOvLNnAcdcmeUPA0R9luR3QgkUFaSWe3Zb-iDGhyMjkKDNjQJS7W5-IBMtOS6YLyC-AUn-TgDL2ft-ddvMpj7s_lg_z7mCXFRXDCZQCAv5Rt0Mm5cj9LZAxIoTtyhiy57lqlodZy_FozhWbSeMK3I9iH-d_f5J5cvQ-zryNOqndqXD8bcWSMHxk_B/s320/055.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgC-IlY_QmdD97t2ioHLNsje6zseFrWlDejAXEKCJSLsaHMZD8nVe_SSONNejr98jZ8mMU34A7vqlQ2kz6r3HZ-jMaIBfvoGcl3Mhfh_ctY_4N6BwSE7mkTSCxeYhRYnxzPw2Lf_zQZ5_OaURTjaWLXWTVZalaEPO9auNQQ-k2zS-thSAYb3SXRUO/s3000/mc%20house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2157" data-original-width="3000" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgC-IlY_QmdD97t2ioHLNsje6zseFrWlDejAXEKCJSLsaHMZD8nVe_SSONNejr98jZ8mMU34A7vqlQ2kz6r3HZ-jMaIBfvoGcl3Mhfh_ctY_4N6BwSE7mkTSCxeYhRYnxzPw2Lf_zQZ5_OaURTjaWLXWTVZalaEPO9auNQQ-k2zS-thSAYb3SXRUO/s320/mc%20house.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So here's a new Maxim. When life gives you weird, dress up weird and take funny pictures of yourself with your tablet.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-87357832397638054022022-10-07T16:58:00.002+01:002022-10-07T16:58:40.496+01:00Walking the Lighthouse Way Day 3<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRT68h5zrmDEEamkEbhpxIYOZ-4ldcBrM3WlXOTAVE5rW5RFpgbvwtCKd_s-m7qB2iJscLPcRbR4yrNrFya0VYYO3oMtPqThfzIimU7dkiXJ6L3UK_xICIqqFELX0vKLlwNUEKRe-l639LdxvNS0Go8JRuNw8JdTfh4GOemAr7g5SpZXf93-1IwtDI/s3518/strava.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3518" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRT68h5zrmDEEamkEbhpxIYOZ-4ldcBrM3WlXOTAVE5rW5RFpgbvwtCKd_s-m7qB2iJscLPcRbR4yrNrFya0VYYO3oMtPqThfzIimU7dkiXJ6L3UK_xICIqqFELX0vKLlwNUEKRe-l639LdxvNS0Go8JRuNw8JdTfh4GOemAr7g5SpZXf93-1IwtDI/s320/strava.jpg" width="273" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Oh my goodness, it's all coming back. This was a long, long day. The day's walk was in the region of 15 miles (it was always marked in km so we were never that sure) but we somehow added in another 4.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We had to go and find somewhere to have breakfast and there wasn't that much choice at whatever it was in the morning - maybe 8. We went into somewhere because it was open, not because it appealed, and it had three or four older guys up at the counter/bar who had either been up all night drinking or had got started good and early. I had to try and shout over them in bad Spanish to put in a breakfast order. This did work - always a surprise - and we got some sharp toast and good coffee. Someone was smoking just outside the doorway and the smell was drifting in and it made me feel sick. I think I had a food hangover from the binge we'd had the evening before. (Pale chips and mayonnaise and sausages soaked in salty wine.) It is astonishing to me that I was ever a smoker. Now it makes me gag. It also reminds me of a mystery that followed us through the journey and to which we never got a full answer. I wasn't 100% sure but people seemed to be asking me if I wanted Tomate with my tostadas or would I like manzanilla y mermelada? I'm not to this day sure what the tomato option would look like.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Aww, I've just googled it. It looks like it would have been tomato and garlic toast. I would have liked that. I'm going back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Anyway, so this morning involved going back into town, and then later, we had to go to another town for lunch. It was the first morning that wasn't just classic scorchio. There was a bit of rain on the pavement and some low hanging clouds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjohKNlIll9_Co25vL4ocbUeldVMaMLa5u6UFzv_E8rxibDA43oDMmMZj4IPUlxhKjOlS_T2or7TRdogrCzZVvBRIsZFgPH2jBVvfKKqlgEgN3SZcXhtzAoPRBWxHmcqAzSwsT4K56i5ZaJvbMwgJSYSOUvlL0jXllbAVK7KfWbAf04FY8QPDN33cLh/s3000/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="3000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjohKNlIll9_Co25vL4ocbUeldVMaMLa5u6UFzv_E8rxibDA43oDMmMZj4IPUlxhKjOlS_T2or7TRdogrCzZVvBRIsZFgPH2jBVvfKKqlgEgN3SZcXhtzAoPRBWxHmcqAzSwsT4K56i5ZaJvbMwgJSYSOUvlL0jXllbAVK7KfWbAf04FY8QPDN33cLh/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNzUQuCsqmeyF4OI6eUxyZIMiYIP4Qs2icjJFAB_mFo5L6L1GoMzejpNVD_P6mPebL0zMsR58jW8usVzbxKmTYgO5cOmy7lRFE8rE3YuSgUBEES6HGLhuaSSn0zng7bX4ywF2anJY-IPtZ3sDGziWi2z9FDR8OuZvDCU7OpMJWMTu3rNS30uIveIv/s3000/002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1790" data-original-width="3000" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNzUQuCsqmeyF4OI6eUxyZIMiYIP4Qs2icjJFAB_mFo5L6L1GoMzejpNVD_P6mPebL0zMsR58jW8usVzbxKmTYgO5cOmy7lRFE8rE3YuSgUBEES6HGLhuaSSn0zng7bX4ywF2anJY-IPtZ3sDGziWi2z9FDR8OuZvDCU7OpMJWMTu3rNS30uIveIv/s320/002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNX_uMxDAXOlSMSy1rVTtYaWxkjDW4BA-QkL0kGLVCOdoK371TdZa-Ep9laWF-buwVVqHxMCjOBglduq4fX0pywSUMOLQpKxeF8cX0ELaxn4wBQG79vNj2IElJTiz0pJbgtGDAJvmukUNwMPaWv6KOfDcCLldIDyJzLOCchc7okvOLpqCSvMDAFZ3H/s3000/003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1708" data-original-width="3000" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNX_uMxDAXOlSMSy1rVTtYaWxkjDW4BA-QkL0kGLVCOdoK371TdZa-Ep9laWF-buwVVqHxMCjOBglduq4fX0pywSUMOLQpKxeF8cX0ELaxn4wBQG79vNj2IElJTiz0pJbgtGDAJvmukUNwMPaWv6KOfDcCLldIDyJzLOCchc7okvOLpqCSvMDAFZ3H/s320/003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Apk-OvwGoHOlJUFO5j4hEYuBZfVhk428pHgV9uSLv3puK7n68vzuxrpyaGPyykhuQe62YraiAATVM2P5aSJ_j-EYTMWIjKGZkTkH5C9g5AX7gT1N7rghGRxuqnV9jiwE1_1TF7WPXVHkPXlo4J10vz-DYaYX2DoqBbH8GUS6hEK2PpGhcaBWDo3l/s3000/004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1854" data-original-width="3000" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Apk-OvwGoHOlJUFO5j4hEYuBZfVhk428pHgV9uSLv3puK7n68vzuxrpyaGPyykhuQe62YraiAATVM2P5aSJ_j-EYTMWIjKGZkTkH5C9g5AX7gT1N7rghGRxuqnV9jiwE1_1TF7WPXVHkPXlo4J10vz-DYaYX2DoqBbH8GUS6hEK2PpGhcaBWDo3l/s320/004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BzOieoj5kGJwuyFKa0dj0GJrezib0H-x2P3RC1QMXWNsV6TXVP6E3FGJlVEsARZaM7FRVuDpsn-lus_hAAf--6yzRmNKqnYzfqZqDwckHlu5bVzxVpn5uyNArREI66vXJX8ueQigx1USocEE6SgdPb5YShGvMjuV-MotVH9mbdNDL9gb7aDO8GM-/s3000/005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2155" data-original-width="3000" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BzOieoj5kGJwuyFKa0dj0GJrezib0H-x2P3RC1QMXWNsV6TXVP6E3FGJlVEsARZaM7FRVuDpsn-lus_hAAf--6yzRmNKqnYzfqZqDwckHlu5bVzxVpn5uyNArREI66vXJX8ueQigx1USocEE6SgdPb5YShGvMjuV-MotVH9mbdNDL9gb7aDO8GM-/s320/005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We went a bit wrong early in the journey and were rewarded with stumbling upon a "beautiful demoiselle. Quite an astonishing thing. It was me that found it by the way - it is doubly rewarding to see the thing and then have PB go ape-shit about it. We soon found our way which was a bit further down the road, but we'd added in more distance.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUz_cD8XENcgltn2uSICXWLt0oNiynm3_L-gUSbHlQLBif1ASYUIouDqPoGQ2KARnQ7o2nKfl-wB2udoVwpK3OqJ_i6h-AejygL-xZegwp0AXM_UXcdKFcf_J-v_btOGDJ3q-4lBG19xzmz25y1DCwMyB_bCHb5cDWONBViMmVYWHjN84s272VafX/s3000/006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2045" data-original-width="3000" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUz_cD8XENcgltn2uSICXWLt0oNiynm3_L-gUSbHlQLBif1ASYUIouDqPoGQ2KARnQ7o2nKfl-wB2udoVwpK3OqJ_i6h-AejygL-xZegwp0AXM_UXcdKFcf_J-v_btOGDJ3q-4lBG19xzmz25y1DCwMyB_bCHb5cDWONBViMmVYWHjN84s272VafX/s320/006.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPhQIDeO0xJ-LUvMdZ0IgYiKuc0i27oo-KuET9RW0bg4iCF5OHNlYVE6O2WgIIlnVcSAmBn1f0bnWBMFVO25-yKe577hYohUUC8HWb1zwIK4rG89FojCf_wqYhUCn0Q24Y-Qg8t-SDAt8dmMcc-bwIJYrtXB-tyJhFpOFz_IsVYcDW07UV1q899ZZ/s3000/007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2196" data-original-width="3000" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjavFznXcGWx4YMcb2yUH41QRqQ4r-tctoX84_0Muhf6rSCz5YUL4yJ849xS6Vd1QN08rwrKCrI-7VaJ0FUxvgNQ-NtlyG17B5VD-7dr2pin37P3WbJDx3lvwiz927EIS8WXY-xSjVduhJOfhMUp0EEsoQyq72vT82jLAmxkbqC6E_PGjBMrrW75FTy/s320/019.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There was a long stumble along sinky sand which was instantly improved by spotting a blue winged grasshoppery jumpy thing. We tried and tried to get a shot of it in flight but it was just too quick. It still looks amazing with its wings folded but I swear to God when it flew it had bright blue wings.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOzcji8u8DxrjftnVEUyWW7DSw-dHeObMbyzdB_hBNuvorCMS2S3pGsb6fO9SI8-dFWI0cozz8QzSHap4KNa0m1MtBpU6fmY1RxnGzPelko_l_xZ7I2BYp9Gj610XWsWdm5-d39wPVj-fXNKGZIiZUfQrmbvSY4CDWJfusNUSxMgP_l_iBrHDUNgrB/s3000/020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1921" data-original-width="3000" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOzcji8u8DxrjftnVEUyWW7DSw-dHeObMbyzdB_hBNuvorCMS2S3pGsb6fO9SI8-dFWI0cozz8QzSHap4KNa0m1MtBpU6fmY1RxnGzPelko_l_xZ7I2BYp9Gj610XWsWdm5-d39wPVj-fXNKGZIiZUfQrmbvSY4CDWJfusNUSxMgP_l_iBrHDUNgrB/s320/020.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_o0_JcNJv0owxD3tDfGlMcwft0vNvgJ5JNahpRkaiDZ3S444IDdWrp2Kz_yN5D4KQfgEXUNZ5-svBvi3AXM0EdzZp7OVlM61sowtwFZLWSVh46gsxtEXDOGuM9J0n-XOKqMvguydCV9ZEk20gTGFHsG5zfJF7CVGD8U-7LzLv3jZtb4LzW2vclhjb/s3000/021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2336" data-original-width="3000" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_o0_JcNJv0owxD3tDfGlMcwft0vNvgJ5JNahpRkaiDZ3S444IDdWrp2Kz_yN5D4KQfgEXUNZ5-svBvi3AXM0EdzZp7OVlM61sowtwFZLWSVh46gsxtEXDOGuM9J0n-XOKqMvguydCV9ZEk20gTGFHsG5zfJF7CVGD8U-7LzLv3jZtb4LzW2vclhjb/s320/021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjVizYnSNhoSePHG7B4yCEqvRx8dBh7FXRFDQVY5l7wRIKry2uf_MEKZcpYOuxJlZ3GFInbVFs4F95M7JUtrRUIDoooJaaWQ69VH0zejoHf3CCiQDd6OozFsuBMhKdxe-6qFj3ZDI1uwsynfI2APtWyAH9angf_gmZ2E201VAs1XWo8MjOuKOeKte/s3000/022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="3000" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjVizYnSNhoSePHG7B4yCEqvRx8dBh7FXRFDQVY5l7wRIKry2uf_MEKZcpYOuxJlZ3GFInbVFs4F95M7JUtrRUIDoooJaaWQ69VH0zejoHf3CCiQDd6OozFsuBMhKdxe-6qFj3ZDI1uwsynfI2APtWyAH9angf_gmZ2E201VAs1XWo8MjOuKOeKte/s320/022.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't know what this means.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz7TKsccey79GXR30hSmeY9jX_lQIhM3b8Oot5orjdhiUPZXONNuq_KGiqt-txmgoheyiAygYnp8NDZ8yhprX9RZ3ABUVF1rucQ95xOPjvw9KagOoH67X5A-9x0mJbp5I96FjhsVbx7YxLhuCdbwFCi5OaeQwrNMZz4pUrSp6MQPZGFYuQYcLsVg2h/s3000/023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1927" data-original-width="3000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz7TKsccey79GXR30hSmeY9jX_lQIhM3b8Oot5orjdhiUPZXONNuq_KGiqt-txmgoheyiAygYnp8NDZ8yhprX9RZ3ABUVF1rucQ95xOPjvw9KagOoH67X5A-9x0mJbp5I96FjhsVbx7YxLhuCdbwFCi5OaeQwrNMZz4pUrSp6MQPZGFYuQYcLsVg2h/s320/023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOEOcXtZrcZS_AdrTjdjHCeBI5qhpxdxaaIT4V60e2xWlN0T9da_hv_zNPcz3v-wSUX_6Z8XFp9X4b80f0JCABHoinTsVL62SYNTvfmY0gXfILECDpV3yiXqDxafoShiy6oRxbxmoqnTBSbkugUCk78PKp1gds9Y5KmGVnQvG0T9zs05AbnkhtvuxW/s3000/024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1923" data-original-width="3000" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOEOcXtZrcZS_AdrTjdjHCeBI5qhpxdxaaIT4V60e2xWlN0T9da_hv_zNPcz3v-wSUX_6Z8XFp9X4b80f0JCABHoinTsVL62SYNTvfmY0gXfILECDpV3yiXqDxafoShiy6oRxbxmoqnTBSbkugUCk78PKp1gds9Y5KmGVnQvG0T9zs05AbnkhtvuxW/s320/024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You could just see fish in the river. Have these people never heard of pollution?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiM0C0C63cISnh7HLs4Hvd1nX-ymb3UZXFHytFMQjlaOHAw4wXjamhW9uNkYpE1EUv7d6h8suhcyRaYWxBStF3F1N-cnD59YraFH-KPw6j60MRB0TGbVkoPdRefLoMge7bAsdX6n5canpH-m2q5Lx4fKydOvu4VUfm0qMXhYHzu-kGlkufIy4P_gwK/s3000/025.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1713" data-original-width="3000" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiM0C0C63cISnh7HLs4Hvd1nX-ymb3UZXFHytFMQjlaOHAw4wXjamhW9uNkYpE1EUv7d6h8suhcyRaYWxBStF3F1N-cnD59YraFH-KPw6j60MRB0TGbVkoPdRefLoMge7bAsdX6n5canpH-m2q5Lx4fKydOvu4VUfm0qMXhYHzu-kGlkufIy4P_gwK/s320/025.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR37fNzP1yzAsbl6_yeJ8uXD0pQLZZp1vMR6VaoHquNe1u_P0pz0EMVjVs9cnf7AT9FU49xWdJtNFQ3df3Zsb1RlzMz_n3IgB0FCza_3hNzACrJI_6L5KDR4u6IzhRKA4ZjR9u4Np28d7KW8fCzsqJyc7dkIrJ_WlAs4Zg9_dng4HsaE9njycNppNz/s3000/026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2464" data-original-width="3000" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR37fNzP1yzAsbl6_yeJ8uXD0pQLZZp1vMR6VaoHquNe1u_P0pz0EMVjVs9cnf7AT9FU49xWdJtNFQ3df3Zsb1RlzMz_n3IgB0FCza_3hNzACrJI_6L5KDR4u6IzhRKA4ZjR9u4Np28d7KW8fCzsqJyc7dkIrJ_WlAs4Zg9_dng4HsaE9njycNppNz/s320/026.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-aUK_QEP9D5FRcuxs-c9EUN2OAzKgcemy7yplggakxvwbzaXcgQazQYY8duWi2aWxKdRF6r9U-qBh3PMhOL8hAx5m7Mg6-fcSV9RiqBrZw8BEqAUcBDga-LHNOjD-LMvGeiU9WEtXb2vuVQOhy94jrecHSqLxQDjEgh77Nd8RnfNQX9mEFWcM5xrr/s3000/027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="3000" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-aUK_QEP9D5FRcuxs-c9EUN2OAzKgcemy7yplggakxvwbzaXcgQazQYY8duWi2aWxKdRF6r9U-qBh3PMhOL8hAx5m7Mg6-fcSV9RiqBrZw8BEqAUcBDga-LHNOjD-LMvGeiU9WEtXb2vuVQOhy94jrecHSqLxQDjEgh77Nd8RnfNQX9mEFWcM5xrr/s320/027.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvNzGmS9ZWdVDUsDQvbL2c0elPsqAG9AKhcb6DH9jtcfPW6jLdKmGQQmCSawJLfoRuMetwSqDMBwx0K1L_btsq3VCF-fLfSMkt_pCdBgbKjf5WI0nWO-ZXYekWloU0XbBUk_np1tXsMZONzgpaw-EC8D8Pl1BSPHl3w2GgUPjIKQP5L7DQBRojQEYT/s3000/028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2369" data-original-width="3000" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvNzGmS9ZWdVDUsDQvbL2c0elPsqAG9AKhcb6DH9jtcfPW6jLdKmGQQmCSawJLfoRuMetwSqDMBwx0K1L_btsq3VCF-fLfSMkt_pCdBgbKjf5WI0nWO-ZXYekWloU0XbBUk_np1tXsMZONzgpaw-EC8D8Pl1BSPHl3w2GgUPjIKQP5L7DQBRojQEYT/s320/028.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSKi36nYOL-nsLXOiqmgrJepgPjj9-cv-kFLkRC6DUabi7yQn2u1WsPMseYQ-XkZK6mZa_keloDWi8G5y1CSS1lt-ULLS8KCIESrdw4seC-IQmrrwje1inadVf8dUD0M3azP2dAS8nn_g96_gjwtGvUFHAv2DrYvWAEbMsR2wJ6bsmiYNGeOCgjxM9/s3000/029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1767" data-original-width="3000" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSKi36nYOL-nsLXOiqmgrJepgPjj9-cv-kFLkRC6DUabi7yQn2u1WsPMseYQ-XkZK6mZa_keloDWi8G5y1CSS1lt-ULLS8KCIESrdw4seC-IQmrrwje1inadVf8dUD0M3azP2dAS8nn_g96_gjwtGvUFHAv2DrYvWAEbMsR2wJ6bsmiYNGeOCgjxM9/s320/029.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Oh yeah and we found ourselves on this weird, absolutely spanking new road. On a day like this, with a bar breakfast, and beautiful demoiselles in the woods, and later bears at picnic tables, and then a new road that nobody's ever walked on before - well you can start to question if your plane actually crashed on the way to Spain and you are now in. another dimension. There could be a bad film with Robin Williams about it. Was that pilgrim lady in the cafe a ghost, or were we ghosts? Was that why the student left in such a hurry? A lot of questions to be answered and not a lighthouse to be seen anywhere. Typical.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfF26aUKN-ZOGYGpfjeBITfOtigGK0aYDVuCIjdPt4TL69qiyO8ur5DMUrB2Q55RdDTTGuzlw0rT5tUdnGV-YWpWCa9-RoFYW5wSC6agU1jD6qSjWeCWduUUfTVAecByPIjLng1FjScEXgCBU-5BP_otyBH8xVeNdkHUf7xsP3sa6Wcmdz4BGennVE/s3000/030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="3000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfF26aUKN-ZOGYGpfjeBITfOtigGK0aYDVuCIjdPt4TL69qiyO8ur5DMUrB2Q55RdDTTGuzlw0rT5tUdnGV-YWpWCa9-RoFYW5wSC6agU1jD6qSjWeCWduUUfTVAecByPIjLng1FjScEXgCBU-5BP_otyBH8xVeNdkHUf7xsP3sa6Wcmdz4BGennVE/s320/030.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I must have been "focused" because there are no photos for ages. I remember us trailing around some town trying to cobble lunch together and it not going particularly well. It probably accounts for the rest of the extra mileage we did that day. Then there was a lot of walking on roads past houses with dogs that you're so grateful are behind bars. Their tails say "we're just playing" and their large barky growling heads saying "I'd like to take a big chunk out of you. Maybe I will." F-u-c-k.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was much later on we came across this chap. I have no idea how Peter saw him as he was pretty much indistinguishable from the leaf litter on which he was sitting. It was one of these love at first sight things anyway. Pretty soon Peter had it swept up on a stick and was taking its photo. The thing wasn't super keen and it had a pointy dagger coming out of its back-side. "How do you know it's not a scorpion?" I asked him. He wasn't sure, but he wanted his hand near it for scale. PB you have big hands and they make things look smaller than they are, but anyway, here you go.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNmR_DFxzTywNx-_Mvhxn5mey3NVLbwSiN3qlW0uLHlzTquShwVj4ugVbEewKernZoqE1Tg1fzEFlL1H4xxYgOZ1xFxdVYNe5WnrArqW5h4oZH0RWwV2TTasNuW4pThce6aIRQxtcpYVsjYqnma0BOOn9YNxLDdEtoJgxE7x0q7ZqGxMOEi98jYrG/s3000/031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2210" data-original-width="3000" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNmR_DFxzTywNx-_Mvhxn5mey3NVLbwSiN3qlW0uLHlzTquShwVj4ugVbEewKernZoqE1Tg1fzEFlL1H4xxYgOZ1xFxdVYNe5WnrArqW5h4oZH0RWwV2TTasNuW4pThce6aIRQxtcpYVsjYqnma0BOOn9YNxLDdEtoJgxE7x0q7ZqGxMOEi98jYrG/s320/031.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaBOC1f_4iISM0A-OKkRR6xQTBg235fwDAL80uHj4ZpUYcNcWxbkN66vobefg9Kr8aeZyTCgLr5R_EtY4Afkv1nxjULEmlFYBG9Yjn3WJlluvXh2jNxa73bk5S2JmnlbMT-IziF848Zkp2gKCsAgKqFf2lII13cANDH2JDtD4YVFvwMqVoOPCHuvC/s3000/032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2984" data-original-width="3000" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaBOC1f_4iISM0A-OKkRR6xQTBg235fwDAL80uHj4ZpUYcNcWxbkN66vobefg9Kr8aeZyTCgLr5R_EtY4Afkv1nxjULEmlFYBG9Yjn3WJlluvXh2jNxa73bk5S2JmnlbMT-IziF848Zkp2gKCsAgKqFf2lII13cANDH2JDtD4YVFvwMqVoOPCHuvC/s320/032.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkt0pcXJQ53EhwQV_-2bbfpiuCCxE-PGkUQ6K62NneetxBjkJoh3A7h4SeSBd3_-G7j0GpLs3c68jh0TBTmvDIsOnnXF5OV-RF-sORmsFL-XIYHTY-740bmBb1qBrWTpb8iIPcoPYa7lOutoY9-6V_T8nf3xMyq2AIhCPRitY_8xeE9apbrZa-3CJ/s3000/033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1885" data-original-width="3000" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkt0pcXJQ53EhwQV_-2bbfpiuCCxE-PGkUQ6K62NneetxBjkJoh3A7h4SeSBd3_-G7j0GpLs3c68jh0TBTmvDIsOnnXF5OV-RF-sORmsFL-XIYHTY-740bmBb1qBrWTpb8iIPcoPYa7lOutoY9-6V_T8nf3xMyq2AIhCPRitY_8xeE9apbrZa-3CJ/s320/033.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Love, love, love</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLzuamJzrnt885L3V1qHVkXwYzK4N2n9nut5u3Mh95cCHNA9fvzQ0inTUSIP1yt5VqTQcybgVZ4CO858dBg6D1CdIMceq65OMl97cqNu3Ga4h_cV5ycfTilAXe4jjfHKz1uAk5p_htC3mfxDKKPE-Y78UgpfutBF_LzKi9a8WIah3QP6xOWirjfmT/s3000/034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2099" data-original-width="3000" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLzuamJzrnt885L3V1qHVkXwYzK4N2n9nut5u3Mh95cCHNA9fvzQ0inTUSIP1yt5VqTQcybgVZ4CO858dBg6D1CdIMceq65OMl97cqNu3Ga4h_cV5ycfTilAXe4jjfHKz1uAk5p_htC3mfxDKKPE-Y78UgpfutBF_LzKi9a8WIah3QP6xOWirjfmT/s320/034.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Satisfied? I think he found out it was a grasshoppery thing in the end.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">What you can't see is that we had just passed Tomas and Regina from Switzerland, who were the only other walkers we kind of bonded with. We kept bumping into them along the way. They were a bit older and weren't doing the exact same thing as us but seemed to be doing it in a similar way. We had just come across them sitting on a rock and had a chat and then moved on when we found the grasshopper scorpion, so they caught back up to us and whipped out their phones and tried to get photos of it too.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxuOWzI-ely-CT6idp58k_0H4Aq26wcDmmfUlErIy7KjCv4pcTuzYbkG1db-sTiB_bFrj93outFgmebUd7PHS3TLg2ho4EWCkut7LcClBK3jf0Ex0dFJvJh1F41W3qoPrfbOsW5EUgnProk5I6MOxrL--VW_8l-mQKPZLyf4YICD_ysH17FlPL6_-/s3000/035.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2143" data-original-width="3000" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxuOWzI-ely-CT6idp58k_0H4Aq26wcDmmfUlErIy7KjCv4pcTuzYbkG1db-sTiB_bFrj93outFgmebUd7PHS3TLg2ho4EWCkut7LcClBK3jf0Ex0dFJvJh1F41W3qoPrfbOsW5EUgnProk5I6MOxrL--VW_8l-mQKPZLyf4YICD_ysH17FlPL6_-/s320/035.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And then later on there was some more sinky sand. I know because I have a picture of it. Maybe this is a picture of us coming into Laxe - which is pronounced "Lashy" or roughly so.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We spent the night at the Hotel Playa de Laxe, which Peter had said was a bit anonymous and not one of his favourites but I really liked it. For one there was a receptionist who was really nice and funny and spoke good English and she knew exactly who we were and that we needed our bag and all that stuff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I was too lazy and unadventurous to get it fired up, but the bath had some kind of whirl-pool thing you could turn on if you wanted. Instead I stood under the shower with its water thundering down on my tired head, and I felt better. I was genuinely worried about my feet - if they were going to hold up. They were really sore and they didn't want me to put on shoes. "I have to put on shoes or we can't get anything to eat" I told them and so they let me squeeze them back into the smelly, tight prison of shoes. "If I was you I would take some paracetamol" quoth Peter - and I really don't like to do that but I did - and in a while - after a beer or two, and more insane chips and croquettes in a bar because we just couldn't be doing with the fiddle faddle of a proper restaurant (we ordered salad too but after an explosion of banging noises in a back room, the bar maid emerged and said "I'm really really sorry but there is no salad". That one will just have to remain a mystery too.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As an aside, before we went out to eat, I heard a commotion in the street and to my surprise looked out and saw cowboys and...american indians...on horseback, chasing each other down the street. It was not a hallucination, but again, I have no idea why. I have had a google but am none the wiser.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When we got back to the hotel the nice receptionist was still on and she showed us the Lighthouse Way wine - there's a local white wine and it comes in bottles with all the different lighthouses on them, so you can collect the set. There are 8 in all, but she only had 6 behind the bar. She brought them out to show us, I think Peter got a pic, and we had a glass just to make sure it was a good wine.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-13876960836791552252022-10-07T15:39:00.005+01:002022-10-07T15:39:56.065+01:00Walking the Lighthouse Way Day 2<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-BevNc8Yn9BPcLRvkWtNK62m-8jtKCg7FlJtecthdiYwOpArch-F3c5_J9r7jjeyCyFFyUIJGi_lo2zghm3w_PcAia7oRLj6uvIDGP9JI6bePxsY4I3vYLJSyL48Egy0HyKnJvcVF18UgSujZOHpWWCeaK5samH1KtJyqVqODWUyz_XgrE-xjOZQ/s3497/strava.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3497" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-BevNc8Yn9BPcLRvkWtNK62m-8jtKCg7FlJtecthdiYwOpArch-F3c5_J9r7jjeyCyFFyUIJGi_lo2zghm3w_PcAia7oRLj6uvIDGP9JI6bePxsY4I3vYLJSyL48Egy0HyKnJvcVF18UgSujZOHpWWCeaK5samH1KtJyqVqODWUyz_XgrE-xjOZQ/s320/strava.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The next day we were up and out earlyish, and taken in a taxi by a new taxi driver back to Ninons beach. It was a sunny day but the shadows were still cool. Our first port of call was back to look for the clouded yellows that we'd missed the day before, but their place was still in shadow, and it was far too early, so we set off on our day's adventure.</p><p>Before arriving at the lighthouse the day before, there had been a long uphill section, and although I'd put caution and surviving front and centre for most of the first day, on that uphill section we caught up to other walkers. Something snapped into place on the way up, it's just where I'm strongest, and we passed a fair flock of folk. Having done so, it would have been embarrassing to slacken off and allow ourselves to get caught, so without really quite realising it, I'd been doing a spot of racing. At the time it had seemed fine, and invigorating to feel like a contender, rather than an old crock. (My new normal) On this second day, however, it became clear to me that I'd made an effort the day before. I had stiff hips and my legs were tired and I could feel that I'd been working. It was a much shorter day but I was feeling it by the end of the day. The photos bring back some of the places we went to but I'd be lying if I pretended I had a coherent narrative of where we were. I think that after Ninons beach we went unexpectedly into a lovely woods where we heard but could not see a wood-pecker - and I was a bit disappointed when the route took us out of the woods and back onto the coast. There were cliff-top walks. Eventually we came to another lighthouse, after which there was two or three flattish miles on the road into the next town. </p><p>Meanwhile my feet were complaining. 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Or what he thought they might have done. I asked him how far to our next "home base" and he really had no idea, or where it was. He said "it might be that" pointing at some town about 10 miles away in the distance. There was no way in hell it was that. Then some yellow butterflies came by and he went into a trance. I was standing at a fork in the road saying "left or right?" and there was no answer. It wasn't that I didn't want to use my E-trex but every time I got it out Peter seemed to think I was casting aspersions on his Suunto route and would go in the huff. I fired it up now, anyway, and it told me what Peter could not, his interface having frozen. Go right. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">My feet were damn sore, and the next day was billed to be a long one. We hadn't eaten for hours and didn't have any food with us and the supermercado was closed so although, when we finally got there, the apartment was spacious, even having a kitchen; we didn't have anything to cook. I had some lovely tap water and then I tried to have a bath but the hot water went off.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Eventually we went out to the same cafe Peter and Nick had gone to and had a mad feeding frenzy which I think must have been needed. And beer. 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I know. We had put on a couple of pounds already and were both a bit hungover for this first day of walking. We crept into the hotel breakfast room where everything was incomprehensible. There were Americans already there, and some other people, and us. There were an odd, apparently unrelated assortment of food-stuffs on our table. A plate with ham and chorizo. A plate with cheese. A plate of jam and butter, and some bread that was nice but had a brutal crust on it. We just ate everything in any order. I still don't know if there's a right way to approach all this. We got there - it was only breakfast - and finally we were on our way.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2dNlVTPtAeYPh1-NRdv5moA1QacjHiVT01FCg4ERD2YqerzpkEKMBmAJRNJuatx-BVrzd3m1PIIQ6aG2wVoFjrSyrO5MFpwmlm2RiZs8zHDutEEfLSKkvIhkFEk1WhlnhrusaQGXJgxvKi6bYk89KD7NydxM-JAa7k515YNj5_T5gsHH8HmSLnYMQ/s3397/strava.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3397" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2dNlVTPtAeYPh1-NRdv5moA1QacjHiVT01FCg4ERD2YqerzpkEKMBmAJRNJuatx-BVrzd3m1PIIQ6aG2wVoFjrSyrO5MFpwmlm2RiZs8zHDutEEfLSKkvIhkFEk1WhlnhrusaQGXJgxvKi6bYk89KD7NydxM-JAa7k515YNj5_T5gsHH8HmSLnYMQ/s320/strava.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Z3QW9b2HN38Wwj4oyWVi5Nb6pxa8pqyiK0y_frrBAgaTWlM17w-nExJOhZpczZu--sbXc2Po36u-o_LdzY4raD7ODWK0IWsSwlOeDzjg4BX3NN0c572tFdIId0mCqTLq1P5eYGEBH2MB_fYcLfay5lVLddM6WM_dTERcnV31ltcRiUhUiH9EXlZS/s3000/001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="3000" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Z3QW9b2HN38Wwj4oyWVi5Nb6pxa8pqyiK0y_frrBAgaTWlM17w-nExJOhZpczZu--sbXc2Po36u-o_LdzY4raD7ODWK0IWsSwlOeDzjg4BX3NN0c572tFdIId0mCqTLq1P5eYGEBH2MB_fYcLfay5lVLddM6WM_dTERcnV31ltcRiUhUiH9EXlZS/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikw28lV5qq5jdqo4uYC9go3JB-R72fjVDtBAI-rO_tBBLQQf6zXPQ6k1wx9H7KavTudoJ3HUT3FK__fGo2o94y9WgsNzzXcW_JzppbLXDAv_mxRpVA_erKdAis87gotExcfvy5At0olfghpMjqNg4Pj_rDpf7DKttpeiG64M0P1K1oXW8HR3n3wTeG/s3000/01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2066" data-original-width="3000" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikw28lV5qq5jdqo4uYC9go3JB-R72fjVDtBAI-rO_tBBLQQf6zXPQ6k1wx9H7KavTudoJ3HUT3FK__fGo2o94y9WgsNzzXcW_JzppbLXDAv_mxRpVA_erKdAis87gotExcfvy5At0olfghpMjqNg4Pj_rDpf7DKttpeiG64M0P1K1oXW8HR3n3wTeG/s320/01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU3FjQV3i66_FKRil9-AHiGafPo8XMvSaaTGKgkb5-qamppO6am5c5L5OV2ATENHO1_SrtIPWcdnLOdKJfjyPZdHgFOovbUBybvH6eSwUljL37Jr3m5txzbarADA9Q3-tseLkwwYROcEec1-HHz_a6rs6IqUkynfAzqg0qfJEQvTh7rUMdOj-A5F46/s3000/002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2290" data-original-width="3000" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU3FjQV3i66_FKRil9-AHiGafPo8XMvSaaTGKgkb5-qamppO6am5c5L5OV2ATENHO1_SrtIPWcdnLOdKJfjyPZdHgFOovbUBybvH6eSwUljL37Jr3m5txzbarADA9Q3-tseLkwwYROcEec1-HHz_a6rs6IqUkynfAzqg0qfJEQvTh7rUMdOj-A5F46/s320/002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxsdy7aO53yrPBhMGDEa4ZAcFwQOTpjKAPdQoRD0vkdxlLCdstP9cJs-9ZKIfp4cXeXuaMOZEMEJVI4h0ztqBIdRZFyRVadXlA2uG2bqCIFX_BjpryB9ufhgaxVXj30Mph0u1NR8ugHyH4wdE5jHIuDQ_r0c6vUgSq0TEzRKg883cXmu1gdjV2MM-9/s3000/003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1727" data-original-width="3000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxsdy7aO53yrPBhMGDEa4ZAcFwQOTpjKAPdQoRD0vkdxlLCdstP9cJs-9ZKIfp4cXeXuaMOZEMEJVI4h0ztqBIdRZFyRVadXlA2uG2bqCIFX_BjpryB9ufhgaxVXj30Mph0u1NR8ugHyH4wdE5jHIuDQ_r0c6vUgSq0TEzRKg883cXmu1gdjV2MM-9/s320/003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"So how was your ankle?" I hear you ask. Well, it was okay, but I just had to keep it in mind all the time - which is kind of tiring. Having belatedly realised that there would be no rest days and that I had to be able to walk a good distance every day, I just didn't take any chances. This made me slow on the downhills if the ground was at all tricky - and it often was, stony and rooty. The stone seemed primarily to be granite, which was very positive except when it had been wet for a while.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Remembering about the pilgrims and the lighthouses and the questions, I told Peter that I thought we should ask a series of questions - one for each lighthouse, and see if we got an answer. We both chewed on this for a while. He asked me what mine was and it was something a bit long-winded - I'd been feeling like I wanted to do something a bit creative but didn't know just what in particular. I asked the lighthouse (smirk) if it had any ideas about this. Peter wanted to know which new lens to buy for his camera. I don't think either of us got an answer but it's hard to know.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqtRm-9r7pyVS1aUANZMhRYfO7_MgArhW5AJaMNdR_l7UJ2WRO9p8Gzvd18-iSqloHz_JVvBhRFGx7wq6uSsVEHGAAH6UHSSAxn1yCu-ACRQFjdzIyHDsY2eMcF330NxI8oOcYl6ETyotYE_W5R83JQReDpyeqFDc6X5ht_BN3Wf4aSm9Diz4KREs/s3000/004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2058" data-original-width="3000" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqtRm-9r7pyVS1aUANZMhRYfO7_MgArhW5AJaMNdR_l7UJ2WRO9p8Gzvd18-iSqloHz_JVvBhRFGx7wq6uSsVEHGAAH6UHSSAxn1yCu-ACRQFjdzIyHDsY2eMcF330NxI8oOcYl6ETyotYE_W5R83JQReDpyeqFDc6X5ht_BN3Wf4aSm9Diz4KREs/s320/004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJaYKgoQzvY_k0ZhPuBvN-awEc5aZ_hQTgotuMFGfQs1_LNQjVwwu-DBALtFWFV7DzEaHjAfc0IuylBQGlUeYcxkLgJYk4otOPzZIbUm1h-qGjluaQVRtRm8UbNXbdZOIe1jTZaTejLKH_xww90qnnSjA88UDNlJguOAZFk4T-7dH-fZbwa9lKhpe/s3000/005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1614" data-original-width="3000" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJaYKgoQzvY_k0ZhPuBvN-awEc5aZ_hQTgotuMFGfQs1_LNQjVwwu-DBALtFWFV7DzEaHjAfc0IuylBQGlUeYcxkLgJYk4otOPzZIbUm1h-qGjluaQVRtRm8UbNXbdZOIe1jTZaTejLKH_xww90qnnSjA88UDNlJguOAZFk4T-7dH-fZbwa9lKhpe/s320/005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVPqlDbYWSS2mfQIZSWoW10aK3_gdsyKwZYD85x225Zob56OSegGdeLUK3zkF4Y5Hosd2aIwHxqYaETk-GGuTwSrZzBMKNmuE-tiShf3tgPqSb-H1m8gXqPmGaOID2CodGI4lpV_7RKpkZya6jlB81tqc8pTI-ZKlhoOUxOqfJhHjeTsn6zSgPb-ia/s3000/006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1721" data-original-width="3000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVPqlDbYWSS2mfQIZSWoW10aK3_gdsyKwZYD85x225Zob56OSegGdeLUK3zkF4Y5Hosd2aIwHxqYaETk-GGuTwSrZzBMKNmuE-tiShf3tgPqSb-H1m8gXqPmGaOID2CodGI4lpV_7RKpkZya6jlB81tqc8pTI-ZKlhoOUxOqfJhHjeTsn6zSgPb-ia/s320/006.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div>If the lighthouses were reluctant to provide answers to our questions, our totem animals were much more in evidence. Throughout the journey we were regularly visited by Stonechats and Robins and Speckled Wood butterflies. We also got a fairly regular dose of Clouded Yellows - very difficult to focus on - and we had at least two close encounters with Swallow-tails - which are surreal when you see them, and a nightmare to photograph.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hAhN9LUUNcC5vj2P7G24SZPytFjLMQU2gsMXol48F5wDuC7o_m51bW6u3X2FUp2sInv38OxL_puStU3TCHs8qtGaF0fbJ_xKR0lF7P3IY0q6FdpLsAxTxnCmWtLCE0OOiT94mL8VMAf2uNt9GyDqeRzSkEdckGGPEJ0Xm_vRVHJeCVSMdPKcboMe/s3000/007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2328" data-original-width="3000" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hAhN9LUUNcC5vj2P7G24SZPytFjLMQU2gsMXol48F5wDuC7o_m51bW6u3X2FUp2sInv38OxL_puStU3TCHs8qtGaF0fbJ_xKR0lF7P3IY0q6FdpLsAxTxnCmWtLCE0OOiT94mL8VMAf2uNt9GyDqeRzSkEdckGGPEJ0Xm_vRVHJeCVSMdPKcboMe/s320/007.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The day's route continued onto a lighthouse and then to Ninons beach. OUr instructions were to phone local taxi driver Ivan as we arrived at the lighthouse, and he would pick us up from Ninon's beach in an hour.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It's becoming clear to me that I don't really care about lighthouses. I'm sure I would if I was a sailor. Although the lighthouse we came to that day was quite spectacular, I don't know what it was called, and I don't know where it was. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We mucked about when we reached the lighthouse, taking pictures and emptying shoes, and for this reason we were ten minutes late for Ivan at his taxi. The universe tortured Peter for this by several Clouded Yellows sailing into view just as we were finishing the stretch - but we couldn't possibly stop and take pictures. Ivan was already there and watching us so he had to march manfully past them and on to the taxi back to Bariza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The day had gone well and it was fun exploring a new room. We settled into a rhythm of getting a shower and charging up phones and tablets and Garmins.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We were to eat in the same place we were staying. From our journey back there in the taxi it seemed like Bariza really only consisted of a few houses, so there weren't any choices. Looking at the menu it looked like all the dishes were really expensive which put PB into full rebellion. Our orders were being taken by a large man with emotional eyes who looked like he might lose it quite easily too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The clue we'd missed (as had the Germans in the room) was that the prices we were looking at were "para compartir" - to share - and so it wasn't cheap but neither was it criminally expensive. By the time we fully understood this we'd ordered a meal entirely consisting of entradas - which was actually pretty good. We had 4 or 5 croquetas - each of them a different flavour and all delicious (including a black one which we later figured out was probably squid ink) - and a humphing great salad and bread. Then a glass of wine or two sealed the deal. By the time we went to bed we were happy again. It might be more complicated than that but I'm running out of steam.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The hotel was right by the sea and so we left the windows wide open so we could hear the boom of the Atlantic hitting the shore all night.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVCl-zPW8QXETCgyOEsIZlmNr2CRQsgQUZasyquoWsScV1ZwJQWglQV1jtUD058FgjDRSPSgv0W9wekUXOy5yHk0itqDdvB43Ih7j9DWHkyypHjSu-d9A3IP6LvRnNZyTtDqY9YgDZ-30YpQxaspIU8gQCEn7b9ZqeNlLIdkfY1-_rD3wOD3as9jZ/s3000/040.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2150" data-original-width="3000" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVCl-zPW8QXETCgyOEsIZlmNr2CRQsgQUZasyquoWsScV1ZwJQWglQV1jtUD058FgjDRSPSgv0W9wekUXOy5yHk0itqDdvB43Ih7j9DWHkyypHjSu-d9A3IP6LvRnNZyTtDqY9YgDZ-30YpQxaspIU8gQCEn7b9ZqeNlLIdkfY1-_rD3wOD3as9jZ/s320/040.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8PY9C4u7KoOo3yvOAdkefIFLp0XyCzo_hUW6igNjWh-0_nJ7voKniLX7bPE2a19RVkPzMSLdFcVVTVwIfPsWMwBmx-nDFtboZ1F824TH89i8d-MIpMcEnhyTS_zqyZ7YPusJvrbPEdH7B2fO7IxnkYOu-4iX8woim5QBvB5aXn5Knl973TK_v5ut/s3000/041.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1959" data-original-width="3000" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8PY9C4u7KoOo3yvOAdkefIFLp0XyCzo_hUW6igNjWh-0_nJ7voKniLX7bPE2a19RVkPzMSLdFcVVTVwIfPsWMwBmx-nDFtboZ1F824TH89i8d-MIpMcEnhyTS_zqyZ7YPusJvrbPEdH7B2fO7IxnkYOu-4iX8woim5QBvB5aXn5Knl973TK_v5ut/s320/041.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5oApxIgoV0sv10COdy9oxiYRlJ4dz0adSwFe92C-ajGETX5ZQt0HJfLNvTQ-kI4ady1u8JCTvQYdEzcaLN-_lLubx5YjghffKvHblWHT1EG-ry6rvKZFRxl4cMo2iCnfktnkfiOJ4Mxz1I29j_biWFGmtAzr2fnoqWLf-B1y_GnapuBWjhiPZJQU/s3000/042.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1817" data-original-width="3000" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5oApxIgoV0sv10COdy9oxiYRlJ4dz0adSwFe92C-ajGETX5ZQt0HJfLNvTQ-kI4ady1u8JCTvQYdEzcaLN-_lLubx5YjghffKvHblWHT1EG-ry6rvKZFRxl4cMo2iCnfktnkfiOJ4Mxz1I29j_biWFGmtAzr2fnoqWLf-B1y_GnapuBWjhiPZJQU/s320/042.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-56350629997213078692022-10-04T18:14:00.001+01:002022-10-04T18:14:07.796+01:00Walking The Lighthouse Way - Days 0.1 and 0.2<p>Ever since Peter went running with Nick in Galicia he has wanted to go back there. They turned a 9 day walk into a 5 day run, covering 115 miles, skipping 4 of the hotels and doing arduous long days in the early September heat. You can read all about it <a href="https://bestpartday.blogspot.com/search?q=galicia" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Peter loved the landscape and he also liked the experience of staying in a new hotel every night - not quite like most of our holidays. Our usual MO has been either camping or staying in the cheapest accommodation we can find. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that time's arrow does indeed only go in one direction and that if you want to push the boat out it's best not to wait too long. That's a mess of metaphors isn't it? You wouldn't want to wait for time's arrow to push the boat out. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that Peter is just turning 60 and I've had a train wreck of a year physically, so we decided to just go for it. By going for it I mean the full 9 day walking holiday.</p><p>Somehow I had it in my head that it would be about 10 miles a day, and I've been walking a fair bit, usually in the region of 7 miles, so it didn't seem like that much of a jump up. Actually the easy days were 10+ miles and the other days were further, but I'm getting ahead of myself.</p><p>I somehow or other managed to turn my ankle 5 days before we were due to leave, putting a queasy question mark over the whole thing and making me feel like I must be cursed by evil entities. </p><p>There were other annoyances before leaving, I won't bore you with all of them. Easyjet's hand luggage size limits were one thing and Spanish airport strikes planned for our day of travel were just some of them. We found we could get a fairly cheap direct flight the day before we had planned to travel, minimising our chances of getting stuck in Stansted airport for 3 days or arriving in Spain with no luggage, so we did that.</p><p>It meant we had an extra evening in Santiago de Campostela, and then a whole free day the next day in Malpica where the official walking started from.</p><p>So there are two Day 0s. I'm going to number the days because this is going to take a lot of blogging and you're going to love it so much you will want to be able to do it in chunks and come back and find where you'd got to.</p><p>So here we go;</p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Day 0.1</span></b></p><p>So the day before we had intended to fly out we got a leisurely afternoon flight which only took a little over 2 hours. The threat of strike action had made us nervous about booking a room in Santiago de Campostela until we were really sure we'd be flying, so I booked somewhere central with my phone once we were at our boarding gate. This turned out to be a fairly cute little hostel called Casa Douro. The friendly reception made up for the enormously hot, windowless room we slept in.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXXGfoF441mXcXmuoC7X5g0X_v-j7K7sluFxRkfbLE1BFrjIrjJzzD0GRvlnpB2VfF1tZBgu4Luy93U9XDcOvPWvJd3J3dojRkLMlpCiRwGt-_WAYJGcRH4LNk_xvXAH3xgf_-TuIbhnbaNduwA7Phx1Ncm4fUdHF1iiIpVCfSKWlbyM9clsXb-lo/s3000/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1709" data-original-width="3000" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXXGfoF441mXcXmuoC7X5g0X_v-j7K7sluFxRkfbLE1BFrjIrjJzzD0GRvlnpB2VfF1tZBgu4Luy93U9XDcOvPWvJd3J3dojRkLMlpCiRwGt-_WAYJGcRH4LNk_xvXAH3xgf_-TuIbhnbaNduwA7Phx1Ncm4fUdHF1iiIpVCfSKWlbyM9clsXb-lo/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We dumped off our stuff at the hostel and then wandered around in the lowering light, getting lost, looking at buildings and getting something to eat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We have recently been or nearly been vegan. There are lots of good reasons for not eating our friends the animals but the thing that had swung it was watching a couple of films on plant-based eating and why you would do it and the general message was you would do it because you'll feel much better and heal much more quickly. That's what sold it to me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Gong to Spain, though, you might as well hang your Vegan cape on the back of the door for the duration. I'd done some googling and saw many claims that this just wasn't true in Spain any more - but we found different. On Foot holidays had asked if we had any dietary restrictions, and we'd made it clear that really they were preferences not requirements. They said that wouldn't be any problem at all but there was only one hotel who even asked us about it - the reason being - we could have meat or fish, but she'd got the fish in specially because she heard we were vegetarians. The least meat you can have is just tuna in a simple salad. A mixed salad has all kinds of goodies - boiled eggs, tuna and ham. We were not going to spend the whole holiday having a problem with the way Spanish people eat, so we just relaxed. Our belts relaxed a notch or two as well. I don't usually drink much but, well you've guessed it - that relaxed as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So this first evening, after looking in the window of many restaurants and not being able to figure out just quite where we fit, we settled on one of these clean, well-lighted cafes. It was nearly full and there was one very busy, but friendly little old Spanish waitress. She put us in two of the places of a table for four, at which already sat a pensive looking student. We didn't mean to alienate the student and maybe we didn't, but we were more concerned about figuring out what to eat and getting some beers to help us with our culture shock. She picked at her food silently while staring at her phone and then paid and left having eaten nearly nothing. We, in the meantime, had got several beers and I was tucking into a big salmon and an enormous portion of chips. I can't remember what Peter had. When another woman came and sat where the student had sat, we paid her more attention - maybe out of guilt. She turned out to be a pilgrim. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I knew that there was a big walk - The Camino de Santiago - which was a kind of a pilgrimage - but I didn't think our walk, the Lighthouse Way, making its way down the west coast of Spain, had anything to do with that. This lady, however, had recently come back from the Lighthouse Way which she had been doing as a pilgrimage. She said, cryptically, that she had had to approach the same lighthouse 3 times before she got an answer to her question.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Aha.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So you could ask questions. That was interesting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On Foot Holidays had given us a physical agenda for our walk, but they had not given us a spiritual one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After the food we thought a wee wine might be nice, so we went into a likely looking bar and asked for one. It was evident to me that we had said or done something wrong as the previously open visage of the bar-man immediately closed down into a scowl - but anyway he poured us a couple of glasses of red and we sat outside, in the now dark, marvelling at how it was still nice and warm. 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Our virtual guide Aznar (we were in touch by Whatsapp, but never met him.) graciously rearranged the taxi that was originally meant to collect us from the airport to collect us from Santiago instead. The taxi driver, whose English was about igual que our Spanish, told us it was unseasonably warm and had quite recently been pissing down. Well words like that. Our pilgrim lady from the night before had also mentioned that she had had 3 days of hard rain. Neither of us were too taken with the idea of walking in a hard rain so we hoped our luck would hold, and it mostly did. If anything, it was a little too hot for the first couple of days - my phone said it was 29 degrees. When we got to Malpica our hotel room wasn't ready yet so we dumped off our big bag and went out to explore.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A LITTLE MORE MUCKING ABOUT IN SANTIAGO,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">breakfast on the terrace at Casa Douro.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxW57UaS3H9q77IIiGfKDe-azH_KMFLwNgC9DUxw-c_AvLK8LZ97y1u8BTh2JDiUIDqb9vNcvnjtbNkd9UKggSirPEwh0qvd1W3CusICUUOIqJ4anEaGW09mPE6kFJ1hue4JNrI1wpfws8vgrU6yfmBM_Kg6hTdNcrDr4D4GhYIMwMjsX9FIQmYKS/s3000/002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2083" data-original-width="3000" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxW57UaS3H9q77IIiGfKDe-azH_KMFLwNgC9DUxw-c_AvLK8LZ97y1u8BTh2JDiUIDqb9vNcvnjtbNkd9UKggSirPEwh0qvd1W3CusICUUOIqJ4anEaGW09mPE6kFJ1hue4JNrI1wpfws8vgrU6yfmBM_Kg6hTdNcrDr4D4GhYIMwMjsX9FIQmYKS/s320/002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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To Peter's intense delight we came upon a clouded yellow and a Swallowtail butterfly, both of which I think I failed to photograph. I was laughing at Peter for how little detail of he and Nick's holiday he could remember, but I am finding the same. I have like a big, collage of things that happened in my head, and most of them I'm not too sure just where they happened or when. We ate out on a near daily basis and that has taken up quite a lot of my head-space. I think it was in Malpica that lots of places were closed and Aznar had said there was a cafe that was cheap and cheerful but pretty good that was always open. This was Cafe Bar Ybarra. The waitress woman was super friendly and gave us some pies to eat with our beers while we were trying to make sense of the menu. I was speaking my smattering of Duolingo spanish, so came in for the most attention which got intense. We had kind of parsed out what things were and were ready to make a tentative order but the waitress wasn't satisfied with the degree of clarity we had about what we were getting so she enlisted other customers in the restaurant to come over to the table to tell us. Soon there was a conference of people with google translate on their phones all telling me what each of the dishes was. Well it seemed like that. The irony is I can't remember what I had. Maybe it was the flaming mixed salad again. It was too much attention. I needed a drink. So I had one.</p><p><br /></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-4257749471125381252022-09-04T19:15:00.017+01:002022-09-07T17:26:03.915+01:00May, June, July and August<p> OMG. It's been 4 months. Do you think I can just blitz them before tea-time? Well we can give it a try.</p><p>By May I was swimming a lot. My injuries were persisting. I was trying to get out on the bike but I hate the road cycling.</p><p>Here I go again - the end of the story is I am fine...but anyway, I got a couple of letters through inviting me in for a breast screening, and the first one went in the bin and the 2nd one I thought I better go. I think I knew it was goint to stir things up even though I had had no worries or problems since the drama of November 2020 and breast-gate.</p><p>I went along for my screening to an ugly old caravan out in the car park at the Jewel. It wasn't a nice experience but then it's not meant to be. I got recalled in, which I also kind of knew I would be. Not that it didn't scare the pants off me because it did - of course it did. They were concerned that my lump was bigger and they biopsied it again. Another week's wait and I went back in and the biopsy was fine but they wanted to take the lump out anyway.</p><p>Let's have my photographs from May and June to break up the story to the Tune of 'The Longevity Prayer' by Lama Gyurme and Jean-Philippe Rykiel.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxVehA4oFUb14MUKjlgi_VZ9I54LND0fMzfFkRaBCfDoxc_JAUUiOQ1PUBlrRWbdbFB8wDurumOI0hEPtXfRA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">At first I thought "oh well go on then take it out and then you can leave me alone" but then I began to realise what that would entail. They only do it with a general anaesthetic, apparently, so there was that. (Not keen!) Then apparently Covid has been a very bad mix with general anaesthetic, so as they said reassuringly on the paperwork "if you have Covid while you have general anaesthetic you have a greatly increased chance of dying." Oh thanks for that. So I began to query whether they really needed to touch it at all which left me in a queasy no-man's-land of "we don't know". It could be a fibroadenoma as they'd thought, or it could be another thing called a Phyllodes tumour which isn't cancer but it can grow. Or sometimes a phyllodes tumour can be cancerous. I think. Well you get benign or malignant ones. Whatever the stewing fuck anyway - my conclusion was "alright go ahead and do it and I'll try to survive the general anaesthetic"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Then I got Covid. Then I got better. Let's do a time-line. I tried to explain it but it was too complicated.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">13th June - I had Covid for a week</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">20th June - got back in the swim</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1st July - I was isolating again for an operation on the 14th and I had an assessment appointment where I told them I'd had Covid but nobody twigged but then</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">8th July I got a call to say it would need to be post-poned because I'd had Covid so then it was going to be on 2nd August. Did I bother going back to the pool? I can't remember.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">16th July or so I was supposed to be back in deep cover, or isolaton or whatever</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">2nd August...snuff day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Thank goodness for the hummingbird hawk-moth. I'll explain in a minute, but here are July's photos, mostly of walking around in Holyrood Park since I couldn't run still and now I couldn't swim because of Covid and then isolating. All to the Tune of 'Happy When It Rains' by The Jesus and Mary Chain. Just to be clear, I actually don't like it when it rains, but I do like the tune and it was the right length.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxokvyPhFRNo36NnG_B1tRAzK44SNLNAscW4NtlviMqMEiQjCfNsjiIQelDrdSostz4TDsyGBimQ1HkdOcYow' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So the Hummingbird Hawk-moth...Peter said "There's been a sighting of a hummingbird hawk-moth at the Valerian, just under Samson's Ribs. Do you want to go and try to see it?". He described it as a shitty little grey cigar shaped moth. Apparently it was apt to turn up at about 3.30pm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Yeah, why not...so we went up and looked for it. I had a sore leg but could just about do the 4 miles round trip without making myself worse and we got hooked by the challenge. We started going every day to look for it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I can't remember the time-line of it but eventually it did put in an appearance but we weren't quite prepared for just how damn fast it was going to be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The next time we saw it, we were prepared and I made a video...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz8TrZ8rk1GCa-y5K48qXqmT1_fpHYpmMtgK8mqX_Jtet5sr_azG7WuOJuBdQhrb95-OymNH-NXkHGaKfcPXw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Anyway, mean-time, surprisingly, the walking seemed to be improving my legs in a way that nothing else had, so I was making it a really regular thing to get out and walk about round Arthur's Seat, and taking a camera made it more fun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So all of that was quite good. The only thing was the drumroll of my approaching operation and hoping they weren't going to snuff me on the operating table. Our endowment policies for our mortgage were due to mature just a few days after and then our mortgage was due to be paid. The thing is I'd been dealing with it all and I was the one who had access to our mortgage on-line and so if they were to snuff me, Peter would have to act very fast in order to get the insurance before it expired 3 days later. I tried to explain all this to him but he gave it the undivided attention he gives much of my chat. He said he heard me but later I found it all on the other side of his chair where it had spilled out of his other ear. Fuck's sake. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I promised myself I wouldn't spin this all out. Well maybe just a wee bit. So on the day of the operation I had to be there and fasted for 7.30 am. This was so I'd be in time for my...1pm operation. There was some controversy because the anaesthetist didn't think enough time had been left since my Covid. He told me this as I sat on the bed in a gown and surgical stockings. Then he went away to discuss it with the team, but nobody ever came back to speak to me about it and I didn't have the heart to ask.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Finally things started moving and I was in the tiny little operating theatre with a good 5 folk packed in and the surgeon, who had the charm surgeons are famous for all over the world, had a big syringe of white snuffing sauce stuck in my hand. "YOU WILL GO TO SLEEP NOW" he announced and did something, which maybe didn't work because a beat or two later he said "YOU WILL GO TO SLEEP NOW" and this time I did.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Let's have some pictures and a musical interlude. All of August to Charlie Mingus's "Moanin'"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyNvparlR_2aGPB-gyoR1n2mhqnkRAQfqIHQxZkePFnLrUFayv_EvLpnRn6-P7n8nZEMzozdWTykC5vTuY2Rg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Well you've guessed right. I didn't die. And I recovered pretty quickly after a night or two of not going to sleep. And they biopsied the whole thing and the upshot of it, which I just heard the other day, was that it was benign and they're not exactly sure if it was a fibroadenoma or a phyllodes tumour, so I'll get another scan in 6 months. They also gave me the go ahead to swim again if I want, and maybe I will soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And in the last few weeks I've been managing a few wee runs culminating in an actual parkrun the other day at Holyrood. Also we paid off our mortgage AND the endowment policy was just shy of enough, which was great because 2008 and all that had knocked it well off track.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It's a classic Holyrood ending. Haha. I'm off for my tea.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">.</div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-48271895483375762182022-04-21T17:46:00.005+01:002022-04-21T17:47:27.563+01:005 miles a week<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> Still in the land of injury - as far as running is concerned anyway. Strava tells me I've been averaging 1 run a week and 5 miles for the last 4 weeks. After my last enthusiastic post I ran myself into the ground again so I couldn't walk properly, and somewhere in that time I seem to have got the message that I'm not going to get away with just pushing through this time. I reluctantly gave away my Edinburgh Marathon place because it was one of the things that kept tempting me to up my mileage. I'm TRYING to run by feel and so work within the margins of what my leg can handle. There should be a 12 step program for it. Numbers anonymous. That's not a very good name - but - trying to hit a number rather than tuning into yourself to see what the 'right amount' might be - which is, of course, multi-factorial and ever-changing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the meantime I've been swimming more than I have for years. I've swum more than 17 miles this year! Again - according to Strava. It is very busy at the pool so not always the most relaxing thing, but with a 2 mile round trip on my legs to get there it makes a nice little package of exercise.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It means I'm spending a lot of time in Leith. Walking with a limp doesn't mark me out in the least because I'd say 70% of the people on the streets in Leith have something wrong with their legs. Leith Walk is under continual construction with the wretched trams so me and the other Leithers are funnelled into little rat runs down the side of the pavement where we have to negotiate our respective limping speeds. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blogger has started doing this annoying thing in the last year where it uploads your most recent photos 1st. I've rearranged them in the past, but I can't be bothered. So...most recent first....I went a cycle through the Pentlands on Monday. I've been thinking about going for a while but couldn't quite find the enthusiasm. On Monday I knew Peter was going to look for green hairstreaks on the gorse near the firing range there. First of all I thought I might meet up with him and then I thought I would definitely not as I would be there a lot earlier than him but then I made some odd route choices to get there and found that in fact I wasn't earlier than him at all. 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I am still super-cautious about cycling on gravel - I know it's ridiculous on a mountain-bike but I just can't take the thought of coming off my bike and hurting myself again. As it happens, I did in fact fall off my bike coming down off the Water of Leith onto the canal but it was entirely my own fault and in fact didn't hurt myself in the least apart from some impressive looking scratches.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We took the van out for a run recently just to see if it was still working. Now that there is no running there isn't so much incentive to go anywhere so it has been sitting kerb-side and rusting away. We took a trip to Postman's Walk at the back of Aberlady and had a look for orange tips (none), Holly Blues (none - although someone else saw some just the next day.) What we did see was one tortoiseshell butterfly so Peter photographed the hell out of it. We were heckled by a small but noisy robin.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2eEGmDRe-trByC-9A2YxftGt9Ek5GPjrDz-KwrHWRcgtlmsM1YlUupaXVguWikaZmPhyF5csloKlrhpyrM7VNVQExN-kcHgfNEn3lMceFmCiQTJO9Gj_Ri-Ijs27O3q4oTEg-DzhSpJ6kerCjj2F_t4Pf8sBQlXYOkg3Tkr4mC50TIrKYgoiiTukZ/s3000/033.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1819" data-original-width="3000" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2eEGmDRe-trByC-9A2YxftGt9Ek5GPjrDz-KwrHWRcgtlmsM1YlUupaXVguWikaZmPhyF5csloKlrhpyrM7VNVQExN-kcHgfNEn3lMceFmCiQTJO9Gj_Ri-Ijs27O3q4oTEg-DzhSpJ6kerCjj2F_t4Pf8sBQlXYOkg3Tkr4mC50TIrKYgoiiTukZ/s320/033.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqJuDX9eAxoMCsDb2ge_smP2gjLYlrFUfPs8wrzjzCpse_30HiUHU5ivUoxcrTq9ZTwRG8cTTEXyJjNsP8YOdLwXZjZI3GCU11d-RtnJ8Zc1ZyAyK-iDENUQmgng-hNQ0mdK4U1pnMPIDOHahW61GwgclpzWaxXq9eIoSv5CJIvWoufC5i6n-enuF/s3000/031.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I really hate cycling on the roads now so I'm always looking for road-free routes. It isn't easy. There's a lot of good intention in Edinburgh about cycle routes it seems - and quite a lot of optimistic sign-posting of cycle routes - that aren't that easy to follow. Since I'm just generally out to get some exercise anyway I don't mind getting lost a bit - it's always a good way of putting new routes together. One low point was finding myself at the notorious Sheriffhall roundabout the other day. That didn't seem optimal. 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I read a book by Sarah Warren called The Pain Relief Secret. I know how that title sounds. Like every other faddy book in the world claiming to have a solution to some problem which is likely not really a homogenous entity in the first place but rather a vague descriptor like "brain fog" that could be so many different things that everyone thinks they have it and they're willing to buy something to sort it....Anyway - Sarah Warren. She was a ballet dancer and having done all the things to herself that ballet dancers do her body was a bit broken so she set out to fix it again. She has a website <a href="https://somaticmovementcenter.com/" target="_blank">The Somatic Movement Centre</a> where she offers information and a series of courses of somatic movements which are designed to unravel the habitual patterns of tension we all carry in our bodies. Her work is an off-shoot of the work of Thomas Hanna who in turn developed his work from The Feldenkrais bodywork developed by Moshe Feldenkrais. I started doing Feldenkrais exercises in 2018 last time I had a longer term injury and found the exercises extremely relaxing but also very surprising how they could iron-out sore bits in your body without it really being apparent how. There are two very good websites with screeds of free Feldenkrais Lessons at <a href="https://feldenkraisproject.com/" target="_blank">The Feldenkrais Project</a> and at <a href="https://www.feldenkraisaccess.com/about" target="_blank">Feldenkrais Access</a> Anyway, it wasn't such a giant leap for me from there to think about what Sarah was saying. What she says in her book is that we all unconsciously hold tension in our bodies - different people have different problems. Our brains are designed to pay attention to novelty (because that has the greatest survival value) so if we start holding ourselves in a funny way - with any habitual thing we do like sitting at a computer or standing at work or whatever; our bodies will protest at first but if we persist with doing the same thing, it will stop the pain signals. At this point we have a muscle or muscles under perpetual tension but we have effectively lost control of the muscle - we can't relax it, because we can't feel it. She says that stretching can work in a temporary way - but ultimately isn't the answer because really you're fighting yourself. Dead peoples' muscles don't hold tension - so you never need to stretch a muscle, you need to let go of the tension. In order to do this we have to first regain our awareness of the muscle under tension. The way to do this is to tighten the muscle consciously and then very, very slowly release the tension whilst paying attention. In this way our motor cortex relearns how to use the muscle in a nuanced way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">But you have to do it systematically and slowly. I bought her basic course a couple of days before I broke my bastard ribs, so I couldn't get started immediately - but I did want to see what would happen if I went through the whole series of exercises. Because I had to put the whole thing on the back burner for a couple of months I am just getting to the leg exercises now. The main emphasis of the whole first course was on the core muscles. I tried some of them in the early days of ribs-gate but using my abs pulled on my ribs and it was all hopeless. Anyway - I'm well into it now and really enjoying it. If nothing else the daily lessons are again really relaxing. I know I'm not exactly a poster child for good posture or function - but I have a kind of belief I'm going to get somewhere with it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As I said I'm just getting into the leg muscles now and it's going to take a bit of work. Whereas most of my muscles in my upper half have some degree of nuance, my poor hamstrings which are tight as...I don't know what...and the left one tighter than the right, and probably responsible ultimately for the slew of injuries I've just been weathering...well I can hardly feel them - which in a way is a good thing, because if I can recover the feeling in them well maybe I can relax them at last. I was doing the glute one today for the first time. I'm lying on the floor following her instructions, she's saying 'do this do that do this, now feel the tension in your glute...' nope, nothing, nada, well maybe....but it does come if you keep doing it every day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So that...is the whole story :-). I don't know why Peter won't listen to me. I'm fascinating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-59849587870178202712022-03-18T19:05:00.004+00:002022-03-18T19:05:39.271+00:00My big plans<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Getting back from Tenerife my ribs were just getting better and big plans started to flourish in my small head. A tentative return to swimming didn't cause me any problems so that was back on the menu. Running was still sore with my ribs so I decided to try doing Jeff Galloway's run/walk thing and see if I could get some baseline miles in while also not hurting myself. A few preliminary jogs went okay.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I interspersed them with walks, which were getting a lot more pleasant now that spring has about sprung.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUneZEsRNVDYjUx-Pd2dpA7iM9ijpVfkxNfXPmgUb4_rZlTZz-CS3acR7tbASoINdnRO_Jb_MpwcUyZm-aOvv5EBlKHaNnAi989RcidXPwPgCGqiVR_wLYLUFRtOxuv1qq6DJfbP9JhMPaZtZwu9em-wrWKIvOxXprDUfBYxwwBtLJTRDVy9wiaUq/s3000/029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1922" data-original-width="3000" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUneZEsRNVDYjUx-Pd2dpA7iM9ijpVfkxNfXPmgUb4_rZlTZz-CS3acR7tbASoINdnRO_Jb_MpwcUyZm-aOvv5EBlKHaNnAi989RcidXPwPgCGqiVR_wLYLUFRtOxuv1qq6DJfbP9JhMPaZtZwu9em-wrWKIvOxXprDUfBYxwwBtLJTRDVy9wiaUq/s320/029.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">But the marathon is not faraway and it seemed like I might have to push a bit harder if I was going to get enough mileage in to realistically be able to do it. One very wet Sunday I set out with a head of steam - determinedly walking 1 minute and running 5. I was thinking I'd do 10 but ambition got the better of me. It was exciting being out. I met Roy Buchanan and then Aileen and then Paul Eunson. I had a proper blether with both Aileen and Paul and it was like being a club member again. It made me want to achieve great things....so I kept on going even though one of my knees was getting sore. I thought I might get away with it - carried on for 15 and it didn't seem so bad and I arrived home soggy but kind of triumphant. However after sitting down for half an hour I couldn't bend my sore knee leg. Ya wee monkey. So fortune doesn't always favour the bold.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDKDTJ0NmIvW23mB5PDLXO38lcOcM2fHP1TbwhPAnzDrW6fK3tbO4DlFenRkpoL3SkE_dqqATn3INUm03QYvTBtZtEJF7urg57WnJGCY6aDpxFvWkh6GlotBcJMhVSO_Tf50-IlyVnZ0D1Z-15RuhIji47yEjfK_3hNSjsME7KTJfTcuABA6mvkyM/s3000/006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2221" data-original-width="3000" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDKDTJ0NmIvW23mB5PDLXO38lcOcM2fHP1TbwhPAnzDrW6fK3tbO4DlFenRkpoL3SkE_dqqATn3INUm03QYvTBtZtEJF7urg57WnJGCY6aDpxFvWkh6GlotBcJMhVSO_Tf50-IlyVnZ0D1Z-15RuhIji47yEjfK_3hNSjsME7KTJfTcuABA6mvkyM/s320/006.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRA65CU_EWz0eQTu_g__xDHPT_45LZ7tKwfyNtWtgO3JBIRMd4MRStBu1dz7k9sKy0nlDXhf4n48p2uwlev7x4q1p2kPhYKhqsTj2B-9ehCqV86CuLm7nwhUwhwwaP9Tqjs04-C4CbJulilHGudBCzBcKTWTPLVfgbekLxO59Y9COUDzxsvceO4Ixd/s3409/005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3409" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRA65CU_EWz0eQTu_g__xDHPT_45LZ7tKwfyNtWtgO3JBIRMd4MRStBu1dz7k9sKy0nlDXhf4n48p2uwlev7x4q1p2kPhYKhqsTj2B-9ehCqV86CuLm7nwhUwhwwaP9Tqjs04-C4CbJulilHGudBCzBcKTWTPLVfgbekLxO59Y9COUDzxsvceO4Ixd/s320/005.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A big fool setting out on a fool's errand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So then it was back to walking around Edinburgh until I could run again - which would surely be soon wouldn't it? Spoiler alert. No.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Here are some shots from around the capital. When I'm down I like to remember that it would be expensive to spend a city break in Edinburgh but I can do it all for free, whenever I like.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiMGZm-AvYfMWLfF52c6F9qmdY77TIXZtnF3Wycp-PeoOlSPrjeDkOHNzvq1npaqtP71UQ4i4qwXGLHtogLZqePnXmo4v_gQGFeGf6-U9FTYku3xcnbEwFKxE12YWX4VT2PGdjP09WSbUgrugqDLZb9SVrrFisTM2TBIVR5djlIYvEajXkXtI-Sl0z/s3000/004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1892" data-original-width="3000" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiMGZm-AvYfMWLfF52c6F9qmdY77TIXZtnF3Wycp-PeoOlSPrjeDkOHNzvq1npaqtP71UQ4i4qwXGLHtogLZqePnXmo4v_gQGFeGf6-U9FTYku3xcnbEwFKxE12YWX4VT2PGdjP09WSbUgrugqDLZb9SVrrFisTM2TBIVR5djlIYvEajXkXtI-Sl0z/s320/004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9xPYX0ZOK_tDDC9eoKQd7t1L-CyQA3jYNN6XvyETGBf4_9g3SZrZiZo2zv5YsbVnBvNjdYo2aaaBbVq-AHOdYlLJFMmCgD6ddYNTTfeY2jpKKdqzD0MNTgUQiLYOvUwFUox-0MwCiX8ppaMGrbV9xgKf0B6B0AXhyD6vP9f2_WOm5FBymkNQi2bsi/s3000/002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2203" data-original-width="3000" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9xPYX0ZOK_tDDC9eoKQd7t1L-CyQA3jYNN6XvyETGBf4_9g3SZrZiZo2zv5YsbVnBvNjdYo2aaaBbVq-AHOdYlLJFMmCgD6ddYNTTfeY2jpKKdqzD0MNTgUQiLYOvUwFUox-0MwCiX8ppaMGrbV9xgKf0B6B0AXhyD6vP9f2_WOm5FBymkNQi2bsi/s320/002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This has recently arrived at the Easter Road end of Albert Street. A bona fide case of wtaf.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49Cgb9h9XY0hI6ao-jmWU5P3Zkp6sHLK956jAFvgouTBVNn9PqBpHVHHlEcSmCJXTWRJMFwHfwJwJSZTXZwcGDYx1CIQpn8pa6t7-SxMvwkIF0c8FCAmb88Q1SCtLlUoMVVzW7uuAYRMTkjWkNj7Q1TMZ3FaO1xZT0xaC9yso9WMHaPcsNHiMYREp/s3000/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1828" data-original-width="3000" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49Cgb9h9XY0hI6ao-jmWU5P3Zkp6sHLK956jAFvgouTBVNn9PqBpHVHHlEcSmCJXTWRJMFwHfwJwJSZTXZwcGDYx1CIQpn8pa6t7-SxMvwkIF0c8FCAmb88Q1SCtLlUoMVVzW7uuAYRMTkjWkNj7Q1TMZ3FaO1xZT0xaC9yso9WMHaPcsNHiMYREp/s320/001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFsdz3AXzNgXTcm6FB1BmKrTY1hqe8xkyPLjvbRHmzDJNmV_qNOPq8s45IKR-I2gVZFsvLipP_E1R_3ZEy_HGwxJXCGztHTSFGgfYa-LrAKAJ73342th18PYR66oI23L4wTFbFryTs862th3sX9fEsrYOVKqWxZtYUxr81OV4H0szL74hoal3cpRgG/s3000/002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="3000" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFsdz3AXzNgXTcm6FB1BmKrTY1hqe8xkyPLjvbRHmzDJNmV_qNOPq8s45IKR-I2gVZFsvLipP_E1R_3ZEy_HGwxJXCGztHTSFGgfYa-LrAKAJ73342th18PYR66oI23L4wTFbFryTs862th3sX9fEsrYOVKqWxZtYUxr81OV4H0szL74hoal3cpRgG/s320/002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRwg-Wfp5bDl_7FoR1ZR1kvKpwjkFeQcSDRnqGeTpQlVrJHO61gwJ-R8GkhWvm4r8gC5wui6fUmommwes9TI-bvoKSv7u3WcAzHRESHhQZfR6hiutHOjTc0R78w6LwC9gVYzjuCgMMe4qL4uyKRRUlLK0Al8vfo-ZMGYUtzIBjNCcVyXNW-UaSBUC/s5165/003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5165" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRwg-Wfp5bDl_7FoR1ZR1kvKpwjkFeQcSDRnqGeTpQlVrJHO61gwJ-R8GkhWvm4r8gC5wui6fUmommwes9TI-bvoKSv7u3WcAzHRESHhQZfR6hiutHOjTc0R78w6LwC9gVYzjuCgMMe4qL4uyKRRUlLK0Al8vfo-ZMGYUtzIBjNCcVyXNW-UaSBUC/s320/003.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJBuXKgm-ba0uKtEl6W2Mk-20ypFkZbFNwz4cAB9392z6oQH405abqj3nV9fHweFZlTetSH8l_GPG-A5iaW8KR6ICi0gezvcjfgbqbtAHHoG8SWlWPJmTirg1d4mMetntmY16986H2yb_T1vN0_G_ySwNPTQ5dqd7SJts1Zw74jCW-hOZ155q6h1VM/s3000/004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2061" data-original-width="3000" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJBuXKgm-ba0uKtEl6W2Mk-20ypFkZbFNwz4cAB9392z6oQH405abqj3nV9fHweFZlTetSH8l_GPG-A5iaW8KR6ICi0gezvcjfgbqbtAHHoG8SWlWPJmTirg1d4mMetntmY16986H2yb_T1vN0_G_ySwNPTQ5dqd7SJts1Zw74jCW-hOZ155q6h1VM/s320/004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The next good thing to happen was getting out on my bike again though. I went out one timid cycle where I was terrified of ice. It had been sub-zero the night before and there had been ice, but I waited until 11am and was cautious. I went out again the other day round Dalmeny and really enjoyed the ability to get somewhere under my own steam.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwZl-w6-r0fUmcQWNPEhGigtD-wguHgNcXV294Pu94M9XlAEBw4Jbrenysp_cCUdQDEIlthGgQiHJty0CqBPh0U_YI82cid7ZOpFqliJh2zUu9GvG59ZpTKKuEy8utOq3m-WDIgFSNq8lNEPNlxcyXHHrRSCBjwWEOBbTNX2UNcEad5WBPT-WJsbt/s3000/005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="3000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwZl-w6-r0fUmcQWNPEhGigtD-wguHgNcXV294Pu94M9XlAEBw4Jbrenysp_cCUdQDEIlthGgQiHJty0CqBPh0U_YI82cid7ZOpFqliJh2zUu9GvG59ZpTKKuEy8utOq3m-WDIgFSNq8lNEPNlxcyXHHrRSCBjwWEOBbTNX2UNcEad5WBPT-WJsbt/s320/005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtPbYAOvbzbaiTzR3FPy1TjuDFCnvjxObfcATm-fYhLhYrbgg2AYwt2OWorOIltJMOZT9-9F65wlzuQle9oqF0X92XCy6kQK0WkNJ55W-d0AFZKByFL3Qk8N4MqgPeXk8LIBFnn4ci5_yXM3T1mY_Jhf7l4aV4Bcu_gDHZzyv-KmezJsEUcWddtGNY/s3000/006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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shifting, oddly, from one knee to the other. I had an exchange with a woman who puts up knee rehab exercises on the internet and she said knee problems are fairly common after a chest injury. I guess it's probably something to do with compensation.<p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8EjJ3nbtBo3z-RjkpMosbCvlCp4Gyjyc9YDTWN_rwQ37bJd14bPE5fB-_zLT81xZT0gwo0sOpbSQUjKEikUMYiSdH5Oo6V48ubWHSfy2AQP2ACcQd4SHP_GiWd3DugNuvN-ICBPRoMm0aZHU4bmXYxNaVoJYIljtGeoIfKR0TTjY2mb5XysvjWVmo/s3368/012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8EjJ3nbtBo3z-RjkpMosbCvlCp4Gyjyc9YDTWN_rwQ37bJd14bPE5fB-_zLT81xZT0gwo0sOpbSQUjKEikUMYiSdH5Oo6V48ubWHSfy2AQP2ACcQd4SHP_GiWd3DugNuvN-ICBPRoMm0aZHU4bmXYxNaVoJYIljtGeoIfKR0TTjY2mb5XysvjWVmo/s320/012.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5lTNojNgYcVnB39UEEOfvCLu6VoiZtPByu5I-D2hBAGystDOLsjYB1bY7BDd5JcSKmXTVygiRctsqnyoNN2fxqiDcgTtOIPCHeRdxebLelktDlxJ4KR4Cs2Tt3EscY_uyEeWv4a4LoiBGobh2NX0WFRKptx6I1LxOWd4ORk2b1KVUdvQ-iwvx6_K/s3000/013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2106" data-original-width="3000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5lTNojNgYcVnB39UEEOfvCLu6VoiZtPByu5I-D2hBAGystDOLsjYB1bY7BDd5JcSKmXTVygiRctsqnyoNN2fxqiDcgTtOIPCHeRdxebLelktDlxJ4KR4Cs2Tt3EscY_uyEeWv4a4LoiBGobh2NX0WFRKptx6I1LxOWd4ORk2b1KVUdvQ-iwvx6_K/s320/013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Ih7PZmkN0YlPJkbVkwHnVT8gI0c1mkpISkfj4rcxW4TU5SdGINlJhBft73ASIm3AOz2hUXQrZjdsOUIJRc4sFRG7L0JkY3I__hWeRpIUMC6E20Oestr87uQXAHA7nijM31uF-z_cvFI1vA7qjaG9jq48nuvKBVfnFkSLf7WntuXF31oGEVg0gylr/s3738/014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3738" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Ih7PZmkN0YlPJkbVkwHnVT8gI0c1mkpISkfj4rcxW4TU5SdGINlJhBft73ASIm3AOz2hUXQrZjdsOUIJRc4sFRG7L0JkY3I__hWeRpIUMC6E20Oestr87uQXAHA7nijM31uF-z_cvFI1vA7qjaG9jq48nuvKBVfnFkSLf7WntuXF31oGEVg0gylr/s320/014.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So anyway, a girl needs a plan, and I have been formulating a new one in this last week. I'm hesitant to write it down as Fate has been laughing at my plans recently - but I've been VERY conservative in mileage for the last three runs I've done and although there's some knee discomfort it seems to be resolving quite quickly now. So maybe I do small runs on grass and let the rest of my fitness be cycling and swimming for a while. Maybe I can tinker with my form, since I'm not doing much. The plan for now, anyway, is to run around on the flat grass and see what happens next.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I went out to try this out at the Queen's Park today - doing 10 60second intervals on the grass with 2 minute jogs inbetween and it felt AMAZING to be running at any kind of speed again. My knees weren't perfect but it's hours later and there has been no big problems. I'm writing that while crossing my fingers and knocking on wood.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-10991649480355117732022-02-08T15:32:00.007+00:002022-02-08T15:32:50.888+00:00Holiday in Tenerife<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwxjaTIjN9728fwiS-IPPO5-bzKplLyq3CJce5uq-34raoyJITMV4p6d4F5NNQnhq3MEzNwkZ2b0QfnmfRfhg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>I was trepidatious about this holiday before we flew out. Having somehow managed to injure myself consistently for pretty much 3 months it was difficult not to wonder what else could go wrong. Fate seemed to be laughing in the face of my attempts at positivity. When my right hip was injured I got into cycling and swimming. "Maybe it's a good thing" I would tell myself - "I'll be a more well rounded athlete now because of that injury." I had a brief period of feeling no injury just before and over Xmas at my sister's. Returning to Edinburgh I anticipated I'd be able to run although I was dreading how much fitness I would have inevitably lost and how much work I'd have to do just to get back to base-line. I needn't have worried because I injured the other hip pretty much right away and running was back off the table. I had about a day of stewing about it and then I jollied up and went back to the pool. "Maybe it's good" I told myself - "I'm enjoying all this swimming and my upper body's looking stronger". Then I took my bike out on an icy day and hit the deck and bashed my stupid ribs with my stupid camera.</p><p>"Maybe it's fine" I told myself and went off for a swim two days later. Stupid arse. It wasn't too bad in the pool but afterwards something horrific happened down my right side - the bottom of my ribs and the top of my stomach kind of swoll up. Getting into bed was a catastrophe. Then I'd lie there dreading the next time I'd need to get up to pee because to do that I'd have to disturb my bastard ribs. All the time I thought maybe there was a rib poking in my liver and that I was maybe dying but just kind of hoped not. There was no way I was going to go up to A & E and endure a long wait in a plastic seat and getting the evil eye from the receptionists, so I would just need to die if that was what was going to happen. The saddest thing would be that Peter would have narrowly missed out on getting a payout of a 'death in service' award from the NHS because I'd retired.</p><p>Anyway, I didn't die, but that was the end of swimming. Such a shame because there's a big outdoor somewhat heated artificial lake in Puerto de la Cruz where we were going and I would have really liked to have gone and spent a bit of time there.</p><p>Before flying my main concerns, apart from filling out all the damn government forms and getting them printed out and booking day 2 Covid tests and all the extra hoops that have been put in place, were trying not to damage myself and wondering how in hell I was going to hump my big ten ton North Face bag to the airport. Peter gets in a sweat on principle about not getting an airport taxi - I might have fought him claiming special circumstances, but I googled the prices and it turns out I am also too much of a cheapskate to get a taxi. So instead I managed to make my bags the lightest I ever had. I only took 3 books. I only took 2 pairs of trainers. My bag was way under the limit. The difficulties were all in the transitions - getting the bag off the floor and onto my back. Once it was on my back that was fine - it was just any twisting and heaving that was a problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Okay, fast-forwards - we got away with it. The flight was a little hell as it turned out we were sharing it with a hen party and some groups of - well are they soccer casuals? I don't know what to call them. Anyway there were maybe 15 passengers who had all been drinking spirits before the flight at 8.25am and snuck vodka on the plane in Pepsi bottles so the cabin crew had to confiscate them. 5000 years ago when I was young I have been known to like a party too but these ones were not nice. They were deliberately being arseholes to the cabin crew who were duty bound to try to get them to sit down and put their masks on.. I was scared the big fat fumbling idiot who was boring the poor cabin crew lady with how he was really a nice guy was going to fall on my damn ribs and ruin my holiday. Me and PB just zoned out to the best of our ability until it was over. As our recent plane-mates made off in the direction of Tenerife Sur and we headed for the North I wished for them to have the killer hangovers they deserved with maybe a keen sense of shame and regret to go along-side.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what on earth do you do on holiday if you can't run or swim (and you're too scared to cycle on the roads because they are fecking full on)? Well it turns out you can go for walks. Peter was very patient with all my limits and disabilities. In truth he knew fine if he wanted to go and do something more solid in the way of a day's adventure he was welcome to, but apart from going to the track a couple of times over the course of 2 weeks, he never did. He loves a potter with a camera. </p><p><br /></p><p>It turns out that going away on holiday and not being able to do very much is actually quite relaxing. We dreamed up mid-sized adventures for ourselves on a few days interspersed with more local days. Wandering about in the sunshine there was just so much to see. and we easily spent hours and hours wandering around and taking photos. Peter was much more active in deciding in advance what he wanted to see and going looking for it (butterflies, birds) and I was more interested in just seeing what came to us. Oddly then I tended to spot the things Peter was after when I wasn't really looking for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had access to a small selection of Spanish tv channels that held no interest so we generally ate and looked at photos and listened to music in the evening, Peter swigging three glasses of wine to my one. I had the more powerful 'device' having brought my lap-top and I somehow got control of the music. Peter suffers along but YouTube has sussed me out and no matter what we started out listening to sooner or later it would put on Radiohead, New Order or the Cure. After a while he'd raise an objection. He likes music for hibernating to though. It was hard to find a middle ground. I had happened upon Bill Evans a while back and listening to his music proved to be possible for both of us. I remarked to Peter that although his music was fairly upbeat there was an underlying note of melancholy and I bet he'd had a sad life - so I had a bit of a google and kind of regretted it as Wikipedia described a short life marred by an abusive, drunken father, drug addiction, the loss of his friend in a car crash and his brother to suicide and then his own death at just 51.</p><p>Wine and Jazz evenings are good anyway. I'd recommend them.</p><p>Another real feature of the holiday was the fantastic shower. We had one of these showers with a huge great big head and strong water pressure that just knocked all the thoughts from your head and tensions from your body. As our shower spits out a weedy amount of tepid water - fine in the summer but chilly in winter, this shower was a big hit with the team and we were probably the cleanest we've ever been.</p><p>On top of that I got into having marathon sleeping sessions where I dreamt long complicated and involving dreams every night. Most diverting. It only really got properly light at about 8.30am so there was no hurry to be up and out.</p><p>So it was a good holiday. Who knew that not doing very much of anything at all can be so diverting? I think I probably used to know it but had forgotten.</p><p>I would still like to go back and be able to use the track and the big, big outdoor swimming pool though. Maybe next time.</p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-46513819444154310262022-01-15T17:13:00.003+00:002022-01-15T17:17:01.022+00:00J(a)NU(a)RY I - anag<p> See what I did there? The clue was in the name of the month. How had I never noticed before? January 2022 has been a beezer of a month.</p><p><br /></p><p>January 1st was a nice day. I went a run round Arthur's Seat and extended it up the High Street a bit. My right hip seems fine now, but my left hip started to get a bit uncomfortable about 5 miles in. I didn't think it would be anything serious, just did some stretches and stuff when I got home.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3DvUmEAVg_DJ4kyFiqep-EHDsUUYIo59WgCF7dRLrNXi7mkUrsIRsFatGgyFCJ4f2nmJeuKqXVO3WVzuXx6vrrNmKm6v2xSmMxfutmWQg8_THLYC9pR4ZbA_6hOAc2rE2aqLc0onbgpZEhHleGJP6mHEGV78YG5aIxBgiKPQsrjPDh3JZln53hrlL=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1738" data-original-width="3000" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3DvUmEAVg_DJ4kyFiqep-EHDsUUYIo59WgCF7dRLrNXi7mkUrsIRsFatGgyFCJ4f2nmJeuKqXVO3WVzuXx6vrrNmKm6v2xSmMxfutmWQg8_THLYC9pR4ZbA_6hOAc2rE2aqLc0onbgpZEhHleGJP6mHEGV78YG5aIxBgiKPQsrjPDh3JZln53hrlL=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhitZfymYqbthmloYij9CMA_ROsviAn4dc6bocW_Tb7yvwCpzHxSavgQVASD7ZhO3yNMrSVz_T9cieQL0_rOOGiycI-XRsgbdO9TfK9KpnLrFwJ_obNizBTBVyLqgYqdFlcjt-tJ_hmSpuGwCK4wOThBlfu9eRT8yAWz31c1AUNXQ1xdjiQaSqXBl9s=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2542" data-original-width="3000" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhitZfymYqbthmloYij9CMA_ROsviAn4dc6bocW_Tb7yvwCpzHxSavgQVASD7ZhO3yNMrSVz_T9cieQL0_rOOGiycI-XRsgbdO9TfK9KpnLrFwJ_obNizBTBVyLqgYqdFlcjt-tJ_hmSpuGwCK4wOThBlfu9eRT8yAWz31c1AUNXQ1xdjiQaSqXBl9s=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ87CeeDn5YX3n3fGJXh9K4k2obq4bHgxFHydy0jfwlSCK1fU-GBZpzlGIdcCwrjccNHyc06AGg0mEKexCw7V3HFX-NG_U8buglbAT0vMxkrEScOSeb-kvpxvj0M822ytgfC7GY0PR_CqEJXnEVZ5W_2LvdA_Jbp5xCQC3TxcI7ctHhlDIkejJiyIy=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2527" data-original-width="3000" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ87CeeDn5YX3n3fGJXh9K4k2obq4bHgxFHydy0jfwlSCK1fU-GBZpzlGIdcCwrjccNHyc06AGg0mEKexCw7V3HFX-NG_U8buglbAT0vMxkrEScOSeb-kvpxvj0M822ytgfC7GY0PR_CqEJXnEVZ5W_2LvdA_Jbp5xCQC3TxcI7ctHhlDIkejJiyIy=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I even gave it a couple of days - going for a walk with Peter on the Sunday instead of running and then nothing the day after.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7Dge0i4vMQ85Flij1DdsFen1gQNX9fTD5YiqJ_bAavvwbZB3Z-fTIq9WCnfeY3abH4jowE2QGV3MhFa0KxR8KrUWuDLG83zjZeXKDeCuKVg99S4esPXCzI2Yzdx9KBU2RaALHBKBsQzObeaWdL57hpzzQTIPFghP1rWerz-Dwh_69pnqzbJ0mG0pW=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2167" data-original-width="3000" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7Dge0i4vMQ85Flij1DdsFen1gQNX9fTD5YiqJ_bAavvwbZB3Z-fTIq9WCnfeY3abH4jowE2QGV3MhFa0KxR8KrUWuDLG83zjZeXKDeCuKVg99S4esPXCzI2Yzdx9KBU2RaALHBKBsQzObeaWdL57hpzzQTIPFghP1rWerz-Dwh_69pnqzbJ0mG0pW=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiV6C4jsaFNf_kAovQtdRRePYK6q3mKVwtocmAcgbKMSPHzFtE6Uffb0_6GzxAvv2sanQ26F3wztDZTaZVqBKX-NJv5Pf-LncolIoUupGlGRurQcUQAd1NqMFTSKuW_QWpkdazuqg_haFgkylatAwi3pSfb1qxLt3G4SRnJk_i_cRvN9PeiEb427wxP=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1875" data-original-width="3000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiV6C4jsaFNf_kAovQtdRRePYK6q3mKVwtocmAcgbKMSPHzFtE6Uffb0_6GzxAvv2sanQ26F3wztDZTaZVqBKX-NJv5Pf-LncolIoUupGlGRurQcUQAd1NqMFTSKuW_QWpkdazuqg_haFgkylatAwi3pSfb1qxLt3G4SRnJk_i_cRvN9PeiEb427wxP=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiR9rf8iMlBpW4lmhYlNZFkw4x_Ze_eOdj2QlrN_0qmnpryvIVhG-LsCPsYnWeukuwlAgn0MeFFq9hkOA0LEvlEMpG4rrsjo3vBDJ3JynAF-4kZItVEKzY4s_9T7s0T8jfGRuElhK8UDJ5WTj6nfAGlrkZ6ZxSDDZqHneqdHepi2jGMhnvK-kl-f0t=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1756" data-original-width="3000" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiR9rf8iMlBpW4lmhYlNZFkw4x_Ze_eOdj2QlrN_0qmnpryvIVhG-LsCPsYnWeukuwlAgn0MeFFq9hkOA0LEvlEMpG4rrsjo3vBDJ3JynAF-4kZItVEKzY4s_9T7s0T8jfGRuElhK8UDJ5WTj6nfAGlrkZ6ZxSDDZqHneqdHepi2jGMhnvK-kl-f0t=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I was off on the Tuesday so Peter and I went to Gullane. It was a lovely day but my hip was tight. I thought it would ease off as we ran but actually by the time we got back to the car I was hurpling. I was mightily fucked off but then took a day off and went swimming on the Thursday. I had got my head round being a bit patient again and going swimming and cycling until this injury came right.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Getting back in swimming was good and I was starting to think maybe it was a good thing that my running had stalled again because all round it's probably better for me if I diversify. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7NMN9h6CqDsQjEX3zzAHc9wQL_CsR9E5XcT8l-khp1T9ADoXVpn2Npi4-eLg7fZR6D90TtqDrjXZZ2X1vei1UwSx8abaUx0cIJ7MLTzBzXcZS1VCNBq1O8MlSfg-16qEh5oy8rjO0g6cTxfvDMXdJof1ho92Bkeyy8JoChuk_d4S3XMAErEZacECY=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1870" data-original-width="3000" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7NMN9h6CqDsQjEX3zzAHc9wQL_CsR9E5XcT8l-khp1T9ADoXVpn2Npi4-eLg7fZR6D90TtqDrjXZZ2X1vei1UwSx8abaUx0cIJ7MLTzBzXcZS1VCNBq1O8MlSfg-16qEh5oy8rjO0g6cTxfvDMXdJof1ho92Bkeyy8JoChuk_d4S3XMAErEZacECY=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">But then I went a cycle the next day. It had been really cold over night and I knew there would be some ice and I was super careful until at Cramond I was caught out by some totally black ice. The bike went over sideways and I landed on the side of my head and my right side. Unfortunately I'd put my camera in the side pocket of my rucksack so it was like landing on a brick with my ribs. There was a man and his wife and child there who were asking if I was alright, and I sat on the ice for a while trying to assess that very thing. I've hurt those very ribs before - probably cracked them although I don't know because I didn't bother going for an x-ray since they can't do anything anyway. At first I couldn't feel much there so I hoped I'd got away with it. Fat chance. As I got back up on my feet and shuffled off with my bike the pain in my side grew and grew. Oh my God the regret! Why did I go out on my stupid bike? The thing is while I was on my bike I was in a bad mood about my hip. Now I'd have given anything to be back in the world where I only had a hip injury! I could see now plainly that I had in fact had it made - all the swimming I wanted and cycling as soon as it wasn't icy. Aaaaaaaaaah! I was still holding onto a hope that maybe my ribs wouldn't be too bad though - so maybe I could still go swimming.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Two days later I did go swimming and it wasn't too bad at the time - although I had to stop if I was breathing too heavily because that was hurting - but afterwards the muscles around the floating ribs on my right side went into a big tight cramp and I had a rather perturbing thought that maybe a bit of my ribs was poking into my liver. I'm never exactly sure where my liver is but it's round about there. It was really uncomfortable. Sitting on the sofa was sore. Trying to get horizontal for bed was a fucking crisis and the thought of having to get up for a pee was torture. I swapped between the two available positions, lying on my back or on the non-injured rib side getting maybe 20 minutes grace out of each position until it was too uncomfortable again. Maybe about 5 in the morning I got into a longer sleep and felt almost comfy at 7.30 when it was time to get up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A day of work was a welcome distraction.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Then I ventured out a wee walk the next day.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4u0qCM9_B7eXfgQmkI6mwqe9Fxo343dOfUpQl-KA_1JM4e1P0f2IkGQJL0GkfhxSTW3jaEvViizjg8MOeOhT-_D8HVcB4LY4CWJ6P07BZkD8KSCw0uP8Czs_FeXpYExJyBBzQYa7i4Op7l0C_XPPQGc6DnM1zxHCuf9z--qTWYf5j1aeHlrw8tDt_=s4184" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4184" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4u0qCM9_B7eXfgQmkI6mwqe9Fxo343dOfUpQl-KA_1JM4e1P0f2IkGQJL0GkfhxSTW3jaEvViizjg8MOeOhT-_D8HVcB4LY4CWJ6P07BZkD8KSCw0uP8Czs_FeXpYExJyBBzQYa7i4Op7l0C_XPPQGc6DnM1zxHCuf9z--qTWYf5j1aeHlrw8tDt_=s320" width="229" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvbEaspNz43-4TXPPM12Cll32CLEs5mDwtqd_xWokOUBCJv3fDY2xkc111X2UMpfVTW1dkWY2xAfXbgKUGILPJHuYpj_ynFwFtCmM2hPTfDKkqsFHCGKs-mRxAeO95BXb8c3092IOQbXCQNMi6jLlZwyMLy-5FjTKRLVIQnGzHj5Cny60H9Z69pBZL=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1928" data-original-width="3000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvbEaspNz43-4TXPPM12Cll32CLEs5mDwtqd_xWokOUBCJv3fDY2xkc111X2UMpfVTW1dkWY2xAfXbgKUGILPJHuYpj_ynFwFtCmM2hPTfDKkqsFHCGKs-mRxAeO95BXb8c3092IOQbXCQNMi6jLlZwyMLy-5FjTKRLVIQnGzHj5Cny60H9Z69pBZL=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I went out just at sunset and walked just shy of 3 miles. My hip was tight and uncomfortable all the time and didn't loosen off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>I'm giving it to you blow by blow aren't I? Lucky you. So anyway I took another 2 whole days off after that and just stayed inside the flat. I've been doing the dishes and thinking about tidying but not really doing it. Also thinking about packing because we're supposed to be going away next week. I've done a gazillion Feldenkrais lessons which usually does something good in terms of relaxing my muscles. What the heck is up with my left hip I don't know. I do not understand it. It's not really my hip. It's the hip area - at the back. I think it's stabilising muscles. I really don't know what it's all about.<div><br /><div>Yesterday I ventured out to the Tesco recycling bins with my excess running shoes and then went to Lidl. My flipping hip was sore much of the time - uphills being slightly better. I came home and did another gazillion Feldenkrais lessons.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today I woke up feeling a bit better. (Shhhh, don't jinx it.) I went a conservative, conditional stroll up to Princes St - I can still feel my hip but it was like whatever is tight in there was relaxing from time to time. It wasn't just continually tight.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgF7gvpYWqiO7a8iAtY02qtKnWjxUi3az3YZ8lYp9N2AYW2txFFuOZ7MDFx6kJPyvgyFAV4fyxKQaiBZnIJKLt1cS1xjrvyZdbPLmAZNLCzHYZMEPogMgfV5ySd27H9qcO-9dqAUPAxjaiBCLLQW1xLvwZWrcigzaMZEOC8EWl1YeGn-kvA_f-DVYQC=s4212" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4212" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgF7gvpYWqiO7a8iAtY02qtKnWjxUi3az3YZ8lYp9N2AYW2txFFuOZ7MDFx6kJPyvgyFAV4fyxKQaiBZnIJKLt1cS1xjrvyZdbPLmAZNLCzHYZMEPogMgfV5ySd27H9qcO-9dqAUPAxjaiBCLLQW1xLvwZWrcigzaMZEOC8EWl1YeGn-kvA_f-DVYQC=s320" width="228" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI0o0YNnp67kzm4yBmrh5PpbCJ9z2hYtUFZ_WkPmCu2zDoYXIBq8MGSj7M44ms5tJYCSvQLAMeI5J-_UonMOYYjVBfY65ums-XPjk9wLMb985gZvcQz1wIGdSkd0rNTcnUQiRnUbhZ_eSZgAPdRgQCEkZ2d3tKKQ7ulBLtCNKBVQ6q8Iqs4LKlmkye=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1782" data-original-width="3000" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI0o0YNnp67kzm4yBmrh5PpbCJ9z2hYtUFZ_WkPmCu2zDoYXIBq8MGSj7M44ms5tJYCSvQLAMeI5J-_UonMOYYjVBfY65ums-XPjk9wLMb985gZvcQz1wIGdSkd0rNTcnUQiRnUbhZ_eSZgAPdRgQCEkZ2d3tKKQ7ulBLtCNKBVQ6q8Iqs4LKlmkye=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiuI9U_p4x4JLIdWcO_dcL1y6_CewFi_QMoLKLj9e79TQFq3Y00nIsMGkKvb6md37OMUrnRZZ3SnHFwZM-KfSA-ql--r4o2Z4bHT2ACsA8MskCY_uCgRTdJcjgc36PZXtRH3UkI_EEerrGjVujp4Tp2DkdCJGcHrmyCQnycKvYiM5EfT7G1cBODkmQ=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2273" data-original-width="3000" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiuI9U_p4x4JLIdWcO_dcL1y6_CewFi_QMoLKLj9e79TQFq3Y00nIsMGkKvb6md37OMUrnRZZ3SnHFwZM-KfSA-ql--r4o2Z4bHT2ACsA8MskCY_uCgRTdJcjgc36PZXtRH3UkI_EEerrGjVujp4Tp2DkdCJGcHrmyCQnycKvYiM5EfT7G1cBODkmQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjF_-vTeNaY6rov1alN59mcnpl1xq6zVuupwqvsrpFXavSRIodJFDU2qwMMW5BT1Hku6mKwlv76PbAOynf_ZgGH5wi6Ofsu2-iFkp_KF7yz-EA_TrZf38p7YbhRGePPKb3lqUuxT91bTdUCskOJppiSmeYk3blQFE1-BKZvtAYAgDR4YG7_JLgnK7jp=s3000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="3000" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjF_-vTeNaY6rov1alN59mcnpl1xq6zVuupwqvsrpFXavSRIodJFDU2qwMMW5BT1Hku6mKwlv76PbAOynf_ZgGH5wi6Ofsu2-iFkp_KF7yz-EA_TrZf38p7YbhRGePPKb3lqUuxT91bTdUCskOJppiSmeYk3blQFE1-BKZvtAYAgDR4YG7_JLgnK7jp=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>So whoop-de-do. I'm actually scared to go swimming in case I do myself a mischief. I don't want to go cycling because I know the stretch forwards will be sore on the bike. My ambition is to not make myself any worse before going on holiday. It's amazing how quickly and dramatically your horizons can narrow. Anyway, I really enjoyed getting out for a walk today.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, emmm, Happy New Year! Get your lucky white heather here!<br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708353692689269461.post-8958351796404184852021-12-30T19:09:00.001+00:002021-12-30T19:09:10.605+00:00End o Year round up<p> I have been sitting on my arse sorting through photos for so long that I don't know if I have the patience for this, but we'll see what we can do. I thought I'd pick just one photo from each month in order to have not too long a blog and not too many pictures, but that has proved impossible.</p><p>As I've been learning Spanish all year then I'm going to give you month headings in Spanish.</p><p>ENERO</p><p>January we were back in deep lock-down. Didn't go anywhere. Trabaja en casa. It was okay I guess. Never the cheeriest time of year. I stopped going into the office altogether and I think spent so long in the one position that my shoulder froze. I didn't think it had frozen particularly, I just thought it was sore, and that I was being unusually sensible in not annoying it. I often can't leave an injury alone but I made a conscious effort to with this one, which was probably a mistake. Your older person's shoulder freezes and it also happens when people have had their arms in a cast so the immobility was probably a part of it. Since if I can run I'm not that bothered about most other things I didn't sweat it or even really notice it went on for such a long time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl_IYjexpixBSkDc6a4nsgsJO4UJ7Fr7KsArP8_tqCqxzKTWP98ShcyXM_glMiujbsWimRydyRpOsCFYECoWDZBqGoXZ6DZXaIzK2RavZkXlIRy74GyHqxfCN_G9RDMTNMda3NFqJpLE0KeTNTc7lRicLwM5ByTaFYz38Ki4NUEKaDfwhd7jERsdVg=s4096" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="4096" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl_IYjexpixBSkDc6a4nsgsJO4UJ7Fr7KsArP8_tqCqxzKTWP98ShcyXM_glMiujbsWimRydyRpOsCFYECoWDZBqGoXZ6DZXaIzK2RavZkXlIRy74GyHqxfCN_G9RDMTNMda3NFqJpLE0KeTNTc7lRicLwM5ByTaFYz38Ki4NUEKaDfwhd7jERsdVg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwcqaCk-kcpyV-MRgH9tQxyuS-c41iXQnytPZ38WdDqVyoxNYKZF6GKR89L0guUKywyHn35m-wonGHBA3Ihjccv5_RG-YxROggwzLffk32k7ImRcHKZzLFFotgqTxxbDKg2WG92vIIjYBEhF5iQEsyIEJbDTiEhpk6WganacC8lCW9ag_Mx87TnHHw=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I think this is when I went out with my good new camera Panasonic FZ330, and got such good results that it pushed Peter into buying an even better camera. I can't bring myself to run around with great big heavy cameras however so most of my photos are still taken on either the Panasonic Lumix TZ70 if you're lucky or with my Canon Ixus most likely because it is wonderfully slim and light and usually gives you at least an idea of what was going on!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was quite grim working from home. This was the phone I was working from most of the time throughout the pandemic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmeaKWmk9-pnLGGf0YEvpp6RALCJ5UPDv8PBvuCMvgqxMWS6z7BjqPVtehqJOmD2oBWgLSDZn6tEkOrgqJFW1uRnWWypra7K8YPJB2LyJYZbu6vhLo8XK877WRhnaOzbK6jH0vEnlHNEXxD5zr5DMjtEqrJc77bebmwi-9JAXchw3_QZIzofN0Pwrz=s4096" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="2304" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmeaKWmk9-pnLGGf0YEvpp6RALCJ5UPDv8PBvuCMvgqxMWS6z7BjqPVtehqJOmD2oBWgLSDZn6tEkOrgqJFW1uRnWWypra7K8YPJB2LyJYZbu6vhLo8XK877WRhnaOzbK6jH0vEnlHNEXxD5zr5DMjtEqrJc77bebmwi-9JAXchw3_QZIzofN0Pwrz=s320" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">and that's what I did the lion's share of my work with. There was an on-line video portal also but for some reason it was really poor quality - nothing like as good as Skype or Zoom - so it only really worked for people who had very good equipment and internet. Many of the people I saw didn't have that, so it wasn't available.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">MARZO</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvNzeTYn5w6bMPrATcQLT4n95vKOuz0LzGEqZIaVzCrIPfnzaRfhTM1IpcK-lrGuVtWe4OSI7-7B6F4GpV6UAqryBCyXT8sY_DeupgXCn7aVIEnJpNq9zYQy75vx6HWa5rBGSZ7uG63mFRwpMC-rza7JFzDUoVwZ7h8iUXWErB4RneA-IRTY1xRDNh=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1678" data-original-width="3000" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvNzeTYn5w6bMPrATcQLT4n95vKOuz0LzGEqZIaVzCrIPfnzaRfhTM1IpcK-lrGuVtWe4OSI7-7B6F4GpV6UAqryBCyXT8sY_DeupgXCn7aVIEnJpNq9zYQy75vx6HWa5rBGSZ7uG63mFRwpMC-rza7JFzDUoVwZ7h8iUXWErB4RneA-IRTY1xRDNh=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY7PqCemYs4NZYdvd9-qj1awn-SRf8nb2mx9Rs5_nC9oWk4KJSJtrVbJ_OlLQIoIWtitrdFQGZgEfs6mwI1-CMpl6oq7TYNWV6p4k-xUrFWsqMS7gH-bzfiD7xsdWmnyh5VZpqYsoRoGkjY8e9YEHLAaYqVr_INF8TuWMzhHFQ2iwm4a2ccExyIOZS=s4000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2248" data-original-width="4000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY7PqCemYs4NZYdvd9-qj1awn-SRf8nb2mx9Rs5_nC9oWk4KJSJtrVbJ_OlLQIoIWtitrdFQGZgEfs6mwI1-CMpl6oq7TYNWV6p4k-xUrFWsqMS7gH-bzfiD7xsdWmnyh5VZpqYsoRoGkjY8e9YEHLAaYqVr_INF8TuWMzhHFQ2iwm4a2ccExyIOZS=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG2Q2oXMeVK-p3j-H8nnYEFkhlWuF3rXwakpvDzq1SEDqfbnoR59aLB_vQzggMmRTy4EbGtrDvbNU2FtsteT5z8di-nmzqacha3LtY8vDGMzPb5KHo2pJexsPKbbIacSDietnWTFHPqVjvB547QveriRv3ogRFI7jouxbjTZya4cgzPPb3mTeJnyr2=s4000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2248" data-original-width="4000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG2Q2oXMeVK-p3j-H8nnYEFkhlWuF3rXwakpvDzq1SEDqfbnoR59aLB_vQzggMmRTy4EbGtrDvbNU2FtsteT5z8di-nmzqacha3LtY8vDGMzPb5KHo2pJexsPKbbIacSDietnWTFHPqVjvB547QveriRv3ogRFI7jouxbjTZya4cgzPPb3mTeJnyr2=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p>March - still in lock-down. I did only local runs. Some people sneaked a wee bit further and with good justification because actually being in town you were much more likely to come into close proximity with many more people than if you took to the hills or went along the coast, but being a public servant I stuck to the letter of the law.</p><p><br /></p><p>ABRIL</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7uK8IT3glWX8vpgDzWJdaR7TzRwqp6O-o-R9c27XTrp3uh-1vPT_XWp13gNxx6iLFcpFruq0LwXdEQ2yq-A-Ep-zdj_V7TGvkfoQoykdUSlENEhXGCYZ5DtkYe80GFjn1VlI163zBUe2hqBYNVIUOQR5-JwY2QeM2m79H4kGhB2QU5aqU44MVWvlr=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2347" data-original-width="3000" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7uK8IT3glWX8vpgDzWJdaR7TzRwqp6O-o-R9c27XTrp3uh-1vPT_XWp13gNxx6iLFcpFruq0LwXdEQ2yq-A-Ep-zdj_V7TGvkfoQoykdUSlENEhXGCYZ5DtkYe80GFjn1VlI163zBUe2hqBYNVIUOQR5-JwY2QeM2m79H4kGhB2QU5aqU44MVWvlr=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR1GjbJ0HD-lGZQTK40zf1kgqUbqiKNxjj8Mtn9mpBNM7413FYj74x35k4S9c3XUqWjRIYMw09H6YDYr_nSPss1zNLDu2QeYT-ENlYC28CLZuIXDNxX32iKZwcWa5AU3XrFS-IER5TvoSBgW6WOWPe95n31m-GQwcQpfw3_KsalSLKcBjXzWFEbzOl=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2070" data-original-width="3000" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR1GjbJ0HD-lGZQTK40zf1kgqUbqiKNxjj8Mtn9mpBNM7413FYj74x35k4S9c3XUqWjRIYMw09H6YDYr_nSPss1zNLDu2QeYT-ENlYC28CLZuIXDNxX32iKZwcWa5AU3XrFS-IER5TvoSBgW6WOWPe95n31m-GQwcQpfw3_KsalSLKcBjXzWFEbzOl=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEGOjVUey_ylyVpniHRA8KPkGJBa26-CTj5RyBNHftzpYlCiVErYXXFzXU4nzQljyM2bxK2d3ESIddc_LlUNJ6ZSvCWcPi0mqXd4ihkI9ozLmz_gMdL7eUGa2VCLOv7HA76PLriv-1MN41GYHZdnUc0-rXfn2_WAQ9xVK9VMEEUlCNx6ojwlP7n1wh=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2080" data-original-width="3000" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEGOjVUey_ylyVpniHRA8KPkGJBa26-CTj5RyBNHftzpYlCiVErYXXFzXU4nzQljyM2bxK2d3ESIddc_LlUNJ6ZSvCWcPi0mqXd4ihkI9ozLmz_gMdL7eUGa2VCLOv7HA76PLriv-1MN41GYHZdnUc0-rXfn2_WAQ9xVK9VMEEUlCNx6ojwlP7n1wh=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgc7BQH6g1orJ4q-v8APve4FTwmTi2qZq5O3FDvflIXvdmb8OFfidc5VR6-r0jt8rLBmUeBZlYO265Q98OK-WInIS1UrxibDJskTUZYag_PfIrOsKCgdfGLuk-AGQwAKE2HTGtj4PQG7ZpjFN8iG8ykhpp3ZlRAxjxr5zReyXRSX2Terp7eQSu6MSOi=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1940" data-original-width="3000" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgc7BQH6g1orJ4q-v8APve4FTwmTi2qZq5O3FDvflIXvdmb8OFfidc5VR6-r0jt8rLBmUeBZlYO265Q98OK-WInIS1UrxibDJskTUZYag_PfIrOsKCgdfGLuk-AGQwAKE2HTGtj4PQG7ZpjFN8iG8ykhpp3ZlRAxjxr5zReyXRSX2Terp7eQSu6MSOi=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>April - it was still all still going on. I had what now seems like a fateful on-line meeting with my boss. It's a long story and a boring one and a story about numbers but anyway I had a meeting with my boss where he suggested based on some numbers he didn't understand generated by people who have never met me and don't know what I do that I wasn't doing enough. I knew I was actually doing the most of anyone in the team. My boss was not a bad person and when he got a 'strong reaction' from me he went away and looked at what I was telling him and apologised unreservedly, - but it set something in motion for me. It was the last straw.</p><p>There's something about working in a big organisation where you know you are just a number and you get treated as exactly that. It grinds you down. I had accepted it up to this point because I actually thought I had to. It's nice to get a regular wage but you also get a fair amount of shit to just swallow down. During this time I had a deep look into the rules of my pension and realised for the very first time that I could take early retirement from my 55th birthday - at a big cut, obviously, but I had previously never understood that this was even an option. At first I thought this maybe wasn't sensible but it worked away at me in the dark. I tried and tried and tried to get some hard numbers about how much money I would get if I left, but I never got an answer until the 1st November - so I had to make my decision largely in the dark.</p><p>In the mean-time, at the end of April, there was a fire in my building and I had to go out the window in a cherry picker. The two scenarios, while being unrelated - as far as I know - went together in my head and became this thought - you can die any day - do you really want to be working for fucktards when you die? I thought not. I thought I do not want that. 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I hadn't 100% made up my mind about leaving my job although looking back on it, there wasn't much to decide. I'd had my own business doing counselling since 2015 after finishing my Masters in 2014. I'd deliberately kept it small and as stress-free as possible and it had gone really very smoothly since then. I had never wanted to lean on it as a main source of income - but the obvious thing was to just increase that and leave my NHS job.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Mean-time for whatever reason - maybe it was stress, maybe it was my age, maybe it was the hot summer or maybe it was my sore shoulder, I wasn't sleeping well and was tired all the time. I was getting maybe 3-5 hours a night. There's been a lot of talk about people having insomnia during the pandemic but I've never heard anything more concrete about it - like why - what was going on with people? I wasn't consciously worrying about things but would be awake for hours every night. It was boring. I tried a lot of things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I tried yoga for sleep problems but I couldn't do most of the exercises because of my shoulder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I tried Paul McKenna's hypnosis for sleep program - but I didn't find it really worked. I tried a number of different hypnotic things actually - but they didn't make much difference and were irritating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I tried white-noise head-phones and those black things you put on your eyes, but none of it got me away into a proper sleep. I tried Jujube extract which made not a jot of difference.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">JUNIO</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEf9VOBtfxsNImlPEAXsXIF3qzC1M_7AyOCEpRw86RouYA9VtDaaakgzKSwvJZ9lYyqGooC3_rmWr8kcON-g48ER9j2e5FPsWZnQgrY6Je-0ZkFVE4XhlP5xs8B_0SlIzcoXXDgiAbsxU9lt3B_1ou2iilP8j3yS8JY9zniK1YpspLlfwJ5zy2SNSs=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="3000" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEf9VOBtfxsNImlPEAXsXIF3qzC1M_7AyOCEpRw86RouYA9VtDaaakgzKSwvJZ9lYyqGooC3_rmWr8kcON-g48ER9j2e5FPsWZnQgrY6Je-0ZkFVE4XhlP5xs8B_0SlIzcoXXDgiAbsxU9lt3B_1ou2iilP8j3yS8JY9zniK1YpspLlfwJ5zy2SNSs=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaOALJ9ZyO7rjX6XVsQniATU71oi-3acVlitO--v6hAtngCqSGBTI0dojvj0hHj_APJWgs65R4DFZ1WrNjYS68qjDCz6ES9zyjMm4vFoybAWjeXrSrzWz5xs450uioXYUOD57noExch3wJlVQB1dvRkgYITZ85yEG_5dmpzV9xP64AlHvI4kQLa-KU=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2273" data-original-width="3000" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaOALJ9ZyO7rjX6XVsQniATU71oi-3acVlitO--v6hAtngCqSGBTI0dojvj0hHj_APJWgs65R4DFZ1WrNjYS68qjDCz6ES9zyjMm4vFoybAWjeXrSrzWz5xs450uioXYUOD57noExch3wJlVQB1dvRkgYITZ85yEG_5dmpzV9xP64AlHvI4kQLa-KU=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiG4GAAqv5zubWJrJsaBUsP1Os6ueDw_XIyp9CRaU7-Ypzv1nneMaVMLcC9xB7VrnIBwvmYN1O9GabWSIVI_AaGDMAGkWk9dm6BBr6SSBN3H6g17qF1koHjhby_Vq4HFEQWk4AZbHpuig2nthDOQBIP3ovFywUOdDs46bPmuutgSZcSmR9QPKNPFyzc=s3875" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3875" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiG4GAAqv5zubWJrJsaBUsP1Os6ueDw_XIyp9CRaU7-Ypzv1nneMaVMLcC9xB7VrnIBwvmYN1O9GabWSIVI_AaGDMAGkWk9dm6BBr6SSBN3H6g17qF1koHjhby_Vq4HFEQWk4AZbHpuig2nthDOQBIP3ovFywUOdDs46bPmuutgSZcSmR9QPKNPFyzc=s320" width="248" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcZk0vtWu8mH7AXcDYIn42T-Jfx6UlIhsSFSQOIwEPrRn6yysOkkiaOPQFMf5FeN_SmPfnkfXHLMhx7C4mII2mENDdXs6DobAEv_MDskj-5m95niRnuK1YTtzeVcn5wY2_gFgw_HaHPaXMWC7NP9dEklO5KZbsv23vClh4FuNZgRateMBlArfp-a0W=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2306" data-original-width="3000" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcZk0vtWu8mH7AXcDYIn42T-Jfx6UlIhsSFSQOIwEPrRn6yysOkkiaOPQFMf5FeN_SmPfnkfXHLMhx7C4mII2mENDdXs6DobAEv_MDskj-5m95niRnuK1YTtzeVcn5wY2_gFgw_HaHPaXMWC7NP9dEklO5KZbsv23vClh4FuNZgRateMBlArfp-a0W=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">By the look of things June was hot. 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I tried some postural exercises out of a book by Pete Egoscue to try to fix my shoulder. I handed in my application to retire. I also reduced my hours at work. I still wasn't sleeping. I tried swimming but I couldn't swim properly. I had a week's holiday so we went through to see my sister in Tayvallich. That was really good fun and it was good to get away. We hadn't been much further than Gullane really - or I hadn't - since the first lock-down in March 2020 when I got back from Sheffield. I'd hardly seen anyone else apart from Peter, people from work, and Nick. Suddenly I was with family again. My nephew Donald couldn't believe how similar me and his mum were in our thoughts about things. It was great comparing notes. Since early adulthood my sister and I's thoughts have tended to move along parallel lines and they had continued to do so.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">AGOSTO</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnswfK9k4zK7QnZYy5Q-o6yB6RqqBnSBJpHQuZ7kEbzrtWXQgsLOLWAJVgXQ5iiG7f0COs9o5xvUoU3-yNk1slwGjh8YJEA_n9RqAkDXH5IzeOfvj3KLcRucAoXjX2TSefmRqIOdzrUn0YqZegtNvGRTTApzNPafA6E2FlCnUUszYZqcyrGZv5IjLn=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2239" data-original-width="3000" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnswfK9k4zK7QnZYy5Q-o6yB6RqqBnSBJpHQuZ7kEbzrtWXQgsLOLWAJVgXQ5iiG7f0COs9o5xvUoU3-yNk1slwGjh8YJEA_n9RqAkDXH5IzeOfvj3KLcRucAoXjX2TSefmRqIOdzrUn0YqZegtNvGRTTApzNPafA6E2FlCnUUszYZqcyrGZv5IjLn=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6fFxZcCm7C337nPN5aUBgxJOp2KTkxsz2NLROgMYLrlRFBIUWFEc2i4egSPu7GZkYXCXEaNJB7MdaW3aSzdceVWHndNPbBQiYnfVHYHGlNILLxrfU1ncBqUpb7k97xU4lsM-Ws56diVCUoi-OPXDeti-PTj2zV9n4aOtUVa5UW4-lA2y9QfTKQsxP=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1787" data-original-width="3000" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6fFxZcCm7C337nPN5aUBgxJOp2KTkxsz2NLROgMYLrlRFBIUWFEc2i4egSPu7GZkYXCXEaNJB7MdaW3aSzdceVWHndNPbBQiYnfVHYHGlNILLxrfU1ncBqUpb7k97xU4lsM-Ws56diVCUoi-OPXDeti-PTj2zV9n4aOtUVa5UW4-lA2y9QfTKQsxP=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0sHTiLLLSTsybkYfSE5uBA-ClNLjZBoAzsrGig7kuKC6XUFgjBLaiyjPI2XhjgThdTnRnhIbUBHrKVVAfBrTaB6vRIVFwVcSvojHcnNq4DTjLvl9h3FHcW7Jp8-otfmuCE_li9ya478P3EfNbfJRGuGT-o5ROh3tMiwYubvrqDcvhcguxox7hQEJN=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2049" data-original-width="3000" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0sHTiLLLSTsybkYfSE5uBA-ClNLjZBoAzsrGig7kuKC6XUFgjBLaiyjPI2XhjgThdTnRnhIbUBHrKVVAfBrTaB6vRIVFwVcSvojHcnNq4DTjLvl9h3FHcW7Jp8-otfmuCE_li9ya478P3EfNbfJRGuGT-o5ROh3tMiwYubvrqDcvhcguxox7hQEJN=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPZ0c6Xolvh-c6dJjo8LOujhXtPqn_1wbx1RqN6-suGYebcK33Xeab7yKrzD5O4m7On_IStftnLSpm8SaPBVpZIXfIi3tu3pxk7S1_gOG8JklZeoGL5-DwfYrae0q0PI411H9bMaJOqb324est_MNvJCL48bvoLiDEBwa8QdZSqVku7xyxeqNeigZJ=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2424" data-original-width="3000" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPZ0c6Xolvh-c6dJjo8LOujhXtPqn_1wbx1RqN6-suGYebcK33Xeab7yKrzD5O4m7On_IStftnLSpm8SaPBVpZIXfIi3tu3pxk7S1_gOG8JklZeoGL5-DwfYrae0q0PI411H9bMaJOqb324est_MNvJCL48bvoLiDEBwa8QdZSqVku7xyxeqNeigZJ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg17k6Gqb9nAZQu2zNbP0AIfH7SgTi0HZLjxFY2onulcjs2UZggZm_Q-H23uOjnhrEswjVPq4s_1xkNYGniVz03RI009ORyof6YvLr-fntNQSZCXPdzVjLFwT5h4ePZT-dAbTjWv5B_bSnnqpZhGULaTBxxeRBOCmmHZ9qvdDGMVZxTZM8cOnEs8PHm=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1934" data-original-width="3000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg17k6Gqb9nAZQu2zNbP0AIfH7SgTi0HZLjxFY2onulcjs2UZggZm_Q-H23uOjnhrEswjVPq4s_1xkNYGniVz03RI009ORyof6YvLr-fntNQSZCXPdzVjLFwT5h4ePZT-dAbTjWv5B_bSnnqpZhGULaTBxxeRBOCmmHZ9qvdDGMVZxTZM8cOnEs8PHm=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I gave Pete Egoscue a good go but my shoulder was still sore and not working. My whole arm was aching sometimes in bed and one Saturday night towards the end of August I booked myself on-line to see a physio. By this time I had figured out myself from much googling that it was a frozen shoulder and I knew that they can last for 18 months and just resolve or sometimes never resolve. I wanted to be able to swim again! And I was sick of it being so sore.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I went and saw Lianne Brunton at Balanced Edinburgh and she told me my options.including hydrodilatation which was likely to be the quickest and the most successful although a bit expensive. I hummed and hawed a wee bit because money - but then went for it. Let's skip to September. I can't remember August. It was hot. I didn't sleep very well. I was keeping on keeping on at work and trying not be THAT person and do my job with a good grace whilst really wanting the fuck out of there as soon as possible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">SEPTIEMBRE</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDD0HgPuwV7C4UAHo3rObnrSZSCyVNZYLlh7DjpW1yvCYOMkuoQHSWmjwT41czO_ODg4NN8LDqVAW8iaOlBVzfobQi6Y9r0x88nHxuc8r0NeyZjboiPCpfwk9dnwcAgWUFSWHw9Gv01caGy3vFkH_d4775ES32tJBir82qO2-F4a37zgXejRa8FM50=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="3000" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDD0HgPuwV7C4UAHo3rObnrSZSCyVNZYLlh7DjpW1yvCYOMkuoQHSWmjwT41czO_ODg4NN8LDqVAW8iaOlBVzfobQi6Y9r0x88nHxuc8r0NeyZjboiPCpfwk9dnwcAgWUFSWHw9Gv01caGy3vFkH_d4775ES32tJBir82qO2-F4a37zgXejRa8FM50=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcmN95DNJUwaVfQAc3YcT9EY0pHhyc7Zh01euvXOnoGpXs7ZUJS_GvraD_qJZp6gCWq-ZVerG837oagHp3dyzP-5JqjJvG8C750RIploTtMHK4kmJD1gNZcLE_g-6KlC4ttM9RyMoM4muvzs9zQigXfSJZm7Ex22hage8L62EmjVikY-N9FUPjQqzE=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1742" data-original-width="3000" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcmN95DNJUwaVfQAc3YcT9EY0pHhyc7Zh01euvXOnoGpXs7ZUJS_GvraD_qJZp6gCWq-ZVerG837oagHp3dyzP-5JqjJvG8C750RIploTtMHK4kmJD1gNZcLE_g-6KlC4ttM9RyMoM4muvzs9zQigXfSJZm7Ex22hage8L62EmjVikY-N9FUPjQqzE=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAVzFCsHIhOxTfQKnkzrHN1p4227n0VAUTTjDFHqBtfPCnkfZSHwkDz97Q0LPpshS12ZcoT84fht1Izn3Zyybb72NvsrJ--B2xsvhlVotp9f5jq6tjYcj2nGOnur6MxRlfFU6MAyeyojbQ6FRmdcJ0ruczFPxvEHV4z802E6lSnG4jnnCL-miVCtKA=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="3000" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAVzFCsHIhOxTfQKnkzrHN1p4227n0VAUTTjDFHqBtfPCnkfZSHwkDz97Q0LPpshS12ZcoT84fht1Izn3Zyybb72NvsrJ--B2xsvhlVotp9f5jq6tjYcj2nGOnur6MxRlfFU6MAyeyojbQ6FRmdcJ0ruczFPxvEHV4z802E6lSnG4jnnCL-miVCtKA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi42C712wfUWRvdxOCLu3K_pcMpEJpUuNDQWCAEB_OTnYy0GuX9TdWbWwKpLyjUfTz1hD6uWv0ip9bRJ3HAwHBjqPwDJwaEmB5Awh2fcuEBR9PlQCYTZtU4B4KnLt3uyz2iJzc9GqgRbbMqI3Mbb_rsiyju6TIOn7_aLx9Hv4Pz57kb0nJFg8MLphU9=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2197" data-original-width="3000" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi42C712wfUWRvdxOCLu3K_pcMpEJpUuNDQWCAEB_OTnYy0GuX9TdWbWwKpLyjUfTz1hD6uWv0ip9bRJ3HAwHBjqPwDJwaEmB5Awh2fcuEBR9PlQCYTZtU4B4KnLt3uyz2iJzc9GqgRbbMqI3Mbb_rsiyju6TIOn7_aLx9Hv4Pz57kb0nJFg8MLphU9=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWsKrqBWksNoYtA3g3d-Mvko9Ye7hbIEdUaA-oWig9yNMXxOyD9lCP8wpjuX2i8u66U08tF_-ByWuIg7VtqDjGHTaFKZWiEDIIU9Cl0Hb_Cg1iUGKHifB9Tf0-NnozfR1MQWyzWsqZJjTvTwr9WKCLoMazw9WDDwaQ8Ki4v6Eklxser04uyRW4wJo-=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1864" data-original-width="3000" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWsKrqBWksNoYtA3g3d-Mvko9Ye7hbIEdUaA-oWig9yNMXxOyD9lCP8wpjuX2i8u66U08tF_-ByWuIg7VtqDjGHTaFKZWiEDIIU9Cl0Hb_Cg1iUGKHifB9Tf0-NnozfR1MQWyzWsqZJjTvTwr9WKCLoMazw9WDDwaQ8Ki4v6Eklxser04uyRW4wJo-=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Yup looks like it was hot again. I got the hydro Mc what's it called thing done about the middle of September and then oh my God maybe it was the temperature drop but also maybe it was the cortisone but I started to sleep well and I started to get the use of my arm back. I had to do some VERY painful exercises to get the ROM back in my shoulder - really to bust through the remaining scar tissue - but I did it like a boss.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">OCTUBRE</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmlLcqbsR4dRUlPq1M459Xwnq9p3Dd5q19gpRVIAyW4IYd0jzBQPFnBt4rrmkP9CkpAPZTnb1--Z745XC4Tk0StZ1F4ZJzpfeY1TdxxGftzn_giiUvjdN9GQqXrX1ht3tp1Gq1OWsY9On6ysud3ndPPlg9aQlWLJp94JjWipyG8_cl0R5yI8Qhrv9D=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2002" data-original-width="3000" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmlLcqbsR4dRUlPq1M459Xwnq9p3Dd5q19gpRVIAyW4IYd0jzBQPFnBt4rrmkP9CkpAPZTnb1--Z745XC4Tk0StZ1F4ZJzpfeY1TdxxGftzn_giiUvjdN9GQqXrX1ht3tp1Gq1OWsY9On6ysud3ndPPlg9aQlWLJp94JjWipyG8_cl0R5yI8Qhrv9D=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I was sleeping better and running better - until in another of these turns of fate I really injured something in my bum/hip/back one day. I'd been doing what sweary people might call a shit-ton of paper-work, getting ready to leave my post and tie up all the loose ends. Nothing happened but one day I went out running and my right hip felt very stiff but I assumed it would ease off if I warmed up gently - and I really did warm up gently, but 3 miles into the run it became properly injury grade oh fuck it sore. It was October 26th, and I was so near to retirement day! Thank goodness I never booked a holiday. I had thought about it. It was so bad I couldn't even walk properly for a good few weeks, but thank goodness I could cycle, so I did much more of that than usual.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">NOVIEMBRE</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZzZPew7E_XsMDrBM7MlhsVaw3TWrz69vKIHSv5_toH49GwYRCf3c-0LXldBHYu7etICEJK5a8KkVkl80C2vUqcWuLIo_h9yWQ3VW0O6VqCqcdOmQd5VbtGEgEBBswZv21qDaoCVeksXN3pPCoaxl5P5o_pEyWAR9jvfn0ym9oqxSYnuoKkr1EGXk6=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZzZPew7E_XsMDrBM7MlhsVaw3TWrz69vKIHSv5_toH49GwYRCf3c-0LXldBHYu7etICEJK5a8KkVkl80C2vUqcWuLIo_h9yWQ3VW0O6VqCqcdOmQd5VbtGEgEBBswZv21qDaoCVeksXN3pPCoaxl5P5o_pEyWAR9jvfn0ym9oqxSYnuoKkr1EGXk6=s320" width="144" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Retirement day. 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I was frustrated not to be able to run and worried in case it would turn ino something permanent but also happy to spend some time on my bikes and to get myself swimming again, which would surely be good for my still improving shoulder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">November's exercise was mostly swimming, cycling and hanging around in graveyards with Peter - who had made the switch from butterflies to birds. Swimming was sore at first but very quickly my back and shoulder got stronger again and I think it has been very good rehab. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As far as work went, I set up an extra day of private clients and it just fell easily into place, which is great.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">DICIEMBRE</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1a98lXxRiYGtlVLNQZgbw7bwGMOM1P3ODIcWzjHDe21p6UTje5-xtqod5OaEOcIKznuh_QaSUs8Bfx0p2ySxf64uV888T2ZNRzN9zaAy2JsOBVJmd0SEcMilqGC9QqAR1diRRLaUVTlUepafQF2CzKgqGSbLSA5gGuv9rkn-tUGN-J-EgWTevEk7_=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1700" data-original-width="3000" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1a98lXxRiYGtlVLNQZgbw7bwGMOM1P3ODIcWzjHDe21p6UTje5-xtqod5OaEOcIKznuh_QaSUs8Bfx0p2ySxf64uV888T2ZNRzN9zaAy2JsOBVJmd0SEcMilqGC9QqAR1diRRLaUVTlUepafQF2CzKgqGSbLSA5gGuv9rkn-tUGN-J-EgWTevEk7_=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">So here we are at the end of the year. My running has been coming back. I had the best run in 2 months just today - no pain, just a fair bit of inertia because I'm not used to it. I've still been swimming and cycling. We went back through to Tayvallich to see my sister and her family for Xmas and I drank more in a few days than I have all year. It was good fun. We had Radiohead singing, whisky tasting, 3 hour dog walks in the long bracken and much talking. This has been a very eventful year in that I had no idea in January that things would be really different by the end of the year. I feel like I've been busted out of prison and I'm still pinching myself. I'm also a bit surprised to find I'm 55. How did that happen? I'd been too busy to pay much attention. I've been letting all the dye grow out of my hair because it's years since I've let it just go au natural and I'm genuinely curious to see what emerges.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I haven't thought too far ahead so I haven't got any New Year resolutions but I'd really like to be able to continue to run and swim and cycle. I'd love to see if I could get under 4 hours for the Edinburgh Marathon which I've got a postponed place in since I signed up for 2020 and it was cancelled.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The next thing is we're supposed to be going to Tenerfie at the end of January so finger's crossed for no further lock-downs and me figuring out what tests we need and when and how to get them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I've been reading this book about muscular problems by John Sarno, which I want to tell you about, but it'll have to wait for another time because yo estoy cansadisima.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Phew. Made it. Happy New Year when it comes.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Yak Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12472223746801881624noreply@blogger.com2