I’ll keep this brief! After 6 hrs painting voluntary work I knew that Saturday also had to include a 12 mile jog since Sunday was a planned cycling day.
I organised to go a jog accompanied by Lynn from lifeline on her cool blue retro bike avec basket! 1 lap of Pollok park is 3.1 miles so theoretically 4 laps should have done it… I did a solo lap while Lynn went round to get her bike and cycle to the park to meet me. I felt good and the dogs were reasonably well behaved! 1/4 of the way round lap 2 passing Pollok house I got the call from Lynn to say that she had arrived in the Park and while she cycled round to meet us, I threw the tennis ball into the river a few times for the dogs both to help improve Winnie’s swimming and to insure they had a drink and were cool!
When Lynn arrived she pointed out her soft rear tyre and half way round we realised it had deflated more. Add to that 1000 people descending on us to do a charity walk and I think you’ll agree we took the right decision to abandon Pollok park and to head to Bellahouston! (Candy ran off after the smells of a BBQ so that was another delay and distraction recapturing her!)
I parked the car at bellahouston park and did 2 laps and hoped that was enough but alas a lap is only 2.2 miles so I was a fair bit short! I did another 2 shorter laps and was delighted to have done my full 12 miles as I’d planned. My right leg at the back of my thigh had been sore to begin with so by the end of the run the side of my left knee paid the price in pain! Uch well lesson learned and lots of stretching has really helped!