Saturday 25 January 2014

Burns night and the day after the day after

It's true. As you get older it takes longer to recover from a few (bottles!) too many! It was a long day yesterday followed by a Burns Supper.  Knackered I headed out in my dinner suit - there was no way I was getting in my kilt.  Too much faffing about.  A night on water did me the world of good, pleasant company and a risky comedian made the night pass. I cut lose before the raffle and headed home for bed as I really needed a good nights sleep.
I was wakened by the sky falling onto my house.  Where is all the water coming from these days? So off to the stables with my daughter but I certainly wasn't going to run in the torrential rain. I'll go on the turbo I thought. But then I fell asleep on the couch and after giving an impromptu yoga lesson in the golf pro shop to the assistant pro (he had some tight muscles) I went for coffee and cake with my wife.
On the way home snow started to fall! That was my que to call a pal and go out for a shorter, faster run. We did a 6 km cross country run. Water and mud up to our ankles and some tasty hills - too slippy for my off road shoes as I found out!  Ironically the rain didn't fall while running but I was wet enough anyway. Good workout and it has prepared me nicely for a long one tomorrow.  That should be fun as the weather is meant to be worse!