Life is a roller coaster....but then, so is the WHW...

It's been another one of those 'interesting' weeks...and given I couldn't get to sleep last night (very abnormal for me!), I thought maybe it was time to blog again and download some of what's in my head!

Oh look, there's me scoffing the sweeties!

After a great run last weekend from Drymen to Balmaha over Conic (& back!) with the Glasgow D33 Training (but really training for all sorts of things) Group I was feeling pretty good - new friends, new route, good running.....a riding the roller coaster of the WHW...up, down, left, right, mud, rocks, rivers, bridges, gates, great views....(and subsequently pleased to hear Emma hadn't broken her ankle on the tumble down Conic!).  Followed with 5ish miles in muddy Crieff on the Sunday, and a good weekend was in the bag!

And then the week became a swift carriage of ups and downs.  It's always busy at work, and that's kinda why I like it!  Always the diversity of things to be done (in too little time), but great brands and mostly great people to work with!

Monday became 'interesting' because Cori the dog had an appointment at the Vet School in Edinburgh, which I somewhat mistakenly thought was for a consultation about his ongoing limp issue.....turned into 7 hours of Clark nervously hanging around Edinburgh while they knocked him out again, shaved an inordinate number of body parts and took CT scans, fluid samples and what-not....and still we end up no further to a diagnosis, and with a confused, dazed, vomitty dog.....! Oh, and it was 'rest day'....erghh!

On Tuesday, another fast downhill as I was feeling pretty grim.  I'd been started on some medication (another long dull story!), which I'm pretty sure wasn't fixing anything and was having some nasty side-effects, so by the time I finished work, and headed for pilates, everything was a bit dizzy and sick feeling.....which in my wisdom, I decided a bag of sour Skittles would help!  Well, yes and no....and I'm sure it didn't help my Slimming World weigh-in later that night!!  The result on the scales would count as an uphill on my roller coaster but only because it was a + and not a -!

Anyway, apologies for the long boring story (if anyone has actually read this far!).

The big fall - Wednesday!  I'll give you any number of reasons....it was 7am, it was dark, the batteries in my head-torch were low, I was chasing Clark, it was rocky, my head was still sore...and I was bizarrely thinking about Luco the running pug..and obviously just not paying enough attention...but anyhow, I came tumbling to a painful thud, squealled for quite some time, ripped a hole in my trousers (and my good knee!)...and then spent the rest of the day unable to put any weight on it!  So...another 2 days of rest then!  Arghhh!!!

Thursday was a bad dizzy sick ('am I getting the lurgy'?) day, combined with the knee still throbbing and the DOMS from the impact running through the rest of the body.  So, I decided to stop taking the tablets, as they weren't fixing what they were meant to anyway!  Winner!  Much better day on Friday!  The fastest and most productive day of the week...decided the best option was just to MTFU....and Saturday's run to look forward to!

A lovely 10 miler, in great cold conditions and some lovely views, checking out another bit of the WHW I've never run on before from Balmaha to Sallochy Bay and back with Bob, Clark and the 2 pooches.

Doesn't do it justice but an awesome early view

The knee(s) held out - hurrah!  I didn't fall (despite ice, tree routes, windy tracks etc etc) - hurrah! And we ended up going further than I thought - hurrah!

Bob and I were slower than Clark as usual...as he skipped like a mini-mountain goat up the hills and scoffed at my "I'm an ultra-runner - we're allowed to walk the hills!" logic!  But a good effort all round, and no bad after effects (yet!)!

So, looking like a high end to the week - aiming for another few miles tomorrow just to keep myself ahead of Clark in the miles-to-date challenge!  I'm less than quarter of a mile ahead at the moment at just over 67 for the month......!

So, apologies for the 'Dear Diary' effort on today's blog!  Glass of wine and some cheese & biscuits if you read this far!

Happy weekend all!  Run on friends!