Poo!

After failing to get to work today due to some ‘equipment’ fault with the trains (them all being cancelled), I worked from home instead and so managed to get in a nice decent length run in daylight.

Before the run though, I had the TV on whilst I worked and there is a really annoying advert on at the minute. It’s by ‘Change 4 Life’ which appears to be some kind of NHS/government set up trying to get people to change to a healthy lifestyle. The problem I have with it though is that it is telling people to swap their sugary fizzy drinks for sugar-free alternatives. I find this to be incredibly bad advice, seeing as the sugar free alternatives are full of all sorts of chemicals which are far worse for you than sugar. The advert winds me up every time I see it. I’m so sick of the government telling us what we should and shouldn’t do. People will eat and drink what they like. Deal with it!

Anyway, back to the run (there seems to be a rant in this blog most days). We went down towards Rivington & Blackrod School and Ruby ‘did her business’ on the pavement. Being a goody two shoes, I bagged it up and went on my merry way. How annoying it was that, despite there being signs all over the place telling you to pick up your dog poo, there are very few bins around to put it in. I ran all the way from the School around the edge of the reservoir, past Go Ape, and to the prep school before I found a bin! And they wonder why people just discard the poo bags all over the place. Which brings me to my next rant – why pick up the poo if you’re then going to leave it lying around in the bag? At least if you just leave the poo it will wash away in the rain but bagged up it will be there for a very long time. Idiots.

There really is a lot of anger going on here today and I haven’t even ranted about the fact that the trains weren’t running!

From the prep school we ran past the bowling club, along the side of Yarrow reservoir, out onto the road, down towards Anglezarke car park and then back along towards the dam and back up onto the lane which takes you back to the bowling club. We then ran up to the top barn and along the track back to Rivington & Blackrod School, then home.

Not much to tell about the run itself, it was just a nice steady pace as I was feeling a little tired today from being sat on my couch with a laptop since just after 7.00 this morning.

Total distance – 7 miles.