Ran with the Collie (12k, concrete road, some track) and then returned to take my mums elderly terrier for her 2k walk. Clearly the pair of them have had a disagreement overnight. They still are not talking after breakfast.
We always need somewhere other than keep her while grass is cut. And not having very much time on our hands, we have bought an almost assembled tortoise run.
I am relying on the Collie to interpret the instructions - my partner is of no use…. Meanwhile he is convinced he can work his stick into the construction.
Needing to get out and lose the troubles for a couple of hours we ran past Harestanes and up to the Waterloo memorial, road and tracks, woods and open road, 18.5k and warm.
BUT, with St Mary's dairy on the way home, we paused to grab one of their freshly made and superlative honeycomb ice creams.
Another gorgeous morning. 26.1k, a mixture of lovely quiet roads and tracks. Great views of the hills (Mintos and the Eildons - a far harder tun) and we met no one other than a couple of passing cars.
That is my pot stirring done for the morning. Now to get out with the dug for a longish (26k run) before it gets too hot. I always find it remarkable and refreshing that I can say that in Scotland - even in June!
OK, it’s not Sunday but I needed some cheering up. From an afternoons running to, and round the Crawick Multiverse. Worth a visit, in most weathers if you find yourself in Dumfries and Galloway.
It has been very soggy for the last couple of days. After a cup of the black strong stuff we climbed up to the trig point on the Mintos ad then ran along the ridge before returning by quiet road and paths.
14.1k, fast (except for the last crawl up the the trig point 🥵, the dug got there first - show off)
Doing a little maintenance on the quad (for the owner). The dug is very excited, but he's going to be disappointed. A wee trial is is all he will get before the weekend.
@raederle Our dug, now 4 years old was brought up by our two cats (themselves introduced to the way of the countryside by out terrier of the time, Hamish).
One acted as good cop (and he still cleans himself in the way he was taught) and the other bad cop - no running and shouting in the house kid)
To his everlasting regret, he no longer fits through the cat flap…
22C here in the Borders and we are roastin’. Early morning, or evening runs for us at the moment. 8.3k through the woods, along the old railway and then back through the tree lined banks of the Teviot.
The dug has had breakfast and retired to a corner of the kitchen (it has a stone floor).
Evening run and then tonight time on the road again
Positively balmy - no Aurora, but after a clear sky in the early evening and a gorgeous torchlit tun later that evening I was not complaining (and neither was the dug)
12k, mainly service roads and then 8.5k tarmac before a good sleep.
And it is lovely. Shorts and sports sandals. Rape seed is bright below the Mintos and the ground is pretty dry but not so hard as to need care. 12k, half tarmac, half farm tracks. Meantime the desperate duo just slept .
You wouldn't believe that this is a dug who has had a 16k #run this morning, 10k #walk over local hills, a #swim in the Teviot an numerous #frisbee sessions down from the office. My partner is away and I am not going to put him on to the phone when she calls 🤣
We had a Collie pup (5 months old) staying with us for the weekend. Generally veery biddable and house trained, but she got bored! Our dug refuses to say whether he encouraged her to desist or cheered her on….
The dug has been presented with a new toy by a visitor who has been running with us this weekend, one that bears a strong likeness to a character from that well known, hard hitting political and social satire, ‘Shaun the Sheep’.
All too predictably it is now known by all (and he can distinguish by name and type most of his balls, frisbees, ropes etc..), wait for it,
We were at Ancrum and decided to run along the Borders Abbey Waye from Harestanes across to the Waterloo Memorial via the ‘Count’s Folly’ a C18 observatory and summer house.
The best part according to the dug. He waits around anxiously, not because of the strimmer just worrying about when I am going to kick it again.
Mind you a ball that had seen better days when it was rescued by the river after the spring high water is looking as though its time is up. It no longer leaves my foot with a whump, more a sad wheeze.
Morning run. Glorious morning, a little bite in the wind, but bright and dry. We took a route through the woods. and then over the old railway track and back via the Teviot.
8/4k, mainly tracks with half a k of road. I got back to see that it really has sprung. The Kats basking in the sun, and the rockette who has been up and about for a few days making one of her regular breakouts from the garden.