8 mile seems to be a common distance at the moment when out running. The Fife weather delayed me. I like to run in the morning. It sets you up for the day and makes you feel that you can take on the world. But this morning it was raining.....again.
It hasn't felt like much of a summer. We were all wearing jackets on Sunday and today the rain was on and off all morning. I suppose we should be grateful as the rain makes Scotland a green and beautiful place. Moonwalker was suggesting the other day that maybe we should get used to mild wet summers - she may have been reading too many environmental papers!
The run tonight wasn't as easy as Saturday. My legs felt heavy to start with and took a while to loosen off. I wanted to stop and just head home but the programme said 1 hour 10 minutes so that was what I had to do. I bought a DAB radio to listen to football while out on longer runs - it works fine closer to dunfermline but is less useful when nearer Oakley. I'm quite pleased with it in any event.
So I finished in 1:08 - happy to have completed the workout and to be home.
I really hope that the weather picks up (if only to cut the grass) so I can get out on the bike for a decent run. The Carnock Epic is 12 days away and I'm pretty certain the boys and girls taking part are training hard and getting ready for the challenge.....
It's going to be a cracker!
About Us
- Derek and John's Epic Caper
- The Absa Cape Epic 2010 takes place 20 - 27 March 2010. Approximately 800km with over 16,000m of climbing. Thoedore Roosevelt, the twenty sixth president of the United States in a speech given in Paris 1910 summed up the purpose of Derek and John's 'journey'. 'It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and the blood; who strives valiantly who errs and comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring to greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.' On their exploration, they will drop into many dark valleys and crest many high peaks. In each circumstance , they have a strong pool of friends who will share these highs and lows and who are as important a part of their journey as the event itself. This is their story.
Derek's Bike
Trek 6700
John's Bike
Revolution Triad 2.0
The start....
Fresh and keen at Lands End
The end....
At John O Groats
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