Escape – An emergency day off.
Lockdown is rubbish eh? I live in Edinburgh, Scotland where we’ve been bound by law to stay within our council boundary since November. Before that, it was asked of us […]
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Through the Lairig Ghru
It sounds so grand, doesn’t it. Hard to work out how to pronounce I guess. La-Rig Gr-roo or something like that. It sounds better in a Scots accent than my […]
Running The Cateran Trail
We’re half way, or so we thought, as Ian and I were sitting on a bench in the warm sun in Altyh we were contemplating the reasons why we’d chosen […]
Scotland Coast to Coast
The forecast was for mist in the morning and cloudy at lunchtime with a Yellow weather warning for heavy rain from 1pm. It’s 8am and I’m at Ardgay on the […]
Packing for 8 days of running
I swear I pack less when I go on holiday for 2 weeks, but I have just packed 20kgs of running stuff that I need and may need for 8 […]
Cycling the Hebrides: Day 15: Tobermory to Edinburgh – Indyref chat
Links to the previous days I uploaded today in one go at the bottom of post. It’s the morning of our return to Edinburgh, we’ve just got 30 or so […]
Cycling the Hebrides: Day 13: Salen to Tobermory
We set off as we always did full from breakfast, heading west onto the Ardnamurchan peninsula, a single track road snaked its way along Loch Sunart. The sun was shining […]
Cycling the Hebrides: Day 12: Glenuig to Salen
With yesterday’s climbs and rubbish road we only had 20kms to our next stop. We decided as the sun was out we’d visit a secluded beach that we’d visited before. […]
Cycling the Hebrides: Day 11: Mallaig to Glenuig
Today was always going to be a bit rubbish. I knew our route followed the main route out of mallaig and we had to go on the main road for […]
Cycling the Hebrides: Day 10: Eigg
As we had a day off we decided to make use of the ferry port and sail to Eigg for the day. Handily the ferry departed Mallaig at a reasonable […]
Run Spud Run! 