I
can’t believe I forgot to mention this earlier in the week but Ruby turned 10
on Tuesday!
You
might think that’s old for a dog but it’s not really for a Patterdale, they can
live to around 18. She’s still going very strong too as, of the 22.5
miles I’ve run so far this week, she has done 17.5 of them with me. There
was only my canal run on Tuesday that she didn’t accompany me, for obvious
reasons!
Since
we’ve had her, she has gone much greyer around the face though and now looks
wizened, which is definitely misleading as she’s still, to use Duncan’s
analogy, ‘thick as mince’.
Today,
we ran along to the top barn, then to the pigeon tower carpark and zigzagged
our way up to the pigeon tower before running up the Pike. We had a
natter with a mountain biker on the Pike for a while before running down the
steep side, where Ruby was constantly getting under my feet.
We
then ran along George’s Lane to Wilderswood car park where we bumped into
Ruby’s former ‘daddy’, Sean, who had a couple of Ruby’s old pals with
him. Sean commented on what good shape Ruby was in and I told him it had
just been her birthday and he couldn’t believe she was already ten.
From
Wilderswood we ran down Old Rake, past the stud and down Brownlow before going
home.
Total
distance – 5.5 miles
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