Boxing Day Blues

 

Distance : 12.00 mi.

Time :  1:45:00 (8:45/mi.)

Weather : 8.9C

Equipment : Asics trubuco 10

Total for week 52:  17.40 mi.

 

After yesterdays food and drink extravaganza it was back to normal training today and an attempt to try to burn off yesterdays turkey.

As usual with the Garscube Boxing day runs we meet at 12 noon in an attempt to get over the drink from yesterday or in Robert MacFarlane's case for him to digest the 5 selection boxes he normally eats on Christmas Days.

Not as many people turned up this year, just the usual suspects and Paul who is up visiting for the Christmas period.  Debbie took some photos of the start with her new camera and for a moment I thought that she would take it on the run with her.

We all started at the Kirkhouse Inn in Strathblane and immediately headed up a steep hill towards the Carbeth Huts.  Nothing like a hill to blow away yesterday's cobwebs.  Paul and I decided to head towards Milngavie for a bit and use the tap at the huts for a little hangover re-hydration and then caught back up with the group.

The pace is nice and easy on these runs and is a great social event giving everyone time to talk.  Slow runners and fast runners showing off their shiney new Christmas presents.  By the time we where at the Beach Tree Inn the shiney new Christmas gear wasn't so shiney anymore.

At Killearn there is a big hill where we leave the West Highland Way and join the track along the Campsies and back to Strathblane.  The hill is a long incline and the group always separates here but we all stop for a breather at the top.

It was the first time that I have run with Paul on a longer run and it was good to see that he coped well with it.  We are running the Scottish Islands race next May and will have to get used to running together.