This morning we drove out to Dalavich Forest, which is just
down the road from where we’re staying.
Duncan planned to walk Ruby, whilst I went for a run.
When we got there we found that a lot of the trail/forest
was currently closed so I was quite limited on where I could run.
I found a two mile route and a 1 and ¾ mile route so I did
the two mile route twice and the other route once.
The two mile route was pretty hard to if I’m honest. It was really undulating but the climbs
didn’t go on long so I was giving them my all and after the first two mile loop
was already pretty tired. I set off onto
the shorter route and stopped to take a selfie by a waterfall.
A short while later, I passed Duncan and Ruby taking photos
by another waterfall and offloaded my bum bag onto them as I didn’t feel I
needed it for such a short distance. I
then carried on with the shorter route, before a second lap of the two mile
route. By the time I arrived back at the
car I was exhausted, having only done 5.15 miles in total.
The weather was amazing today, the car thermometer reading
28 degrees outside. Erm, this is
Scotland isn’t it? We’ve been really
lucky with the weather so far this holiday, it’s been lovely and sunny but this
has been the warmest day so far and after my run I got into a pair of shorts
and a t-shirt, something I haven’t done for a good while now.
We had a drive out and we stopped at a posh hotel for a
coffee, which is where I noticed an unwelcome little creature on the back of my
leg, just near the knee joint. It was a
tick! My first ever tick! The lady at the hotel told me she had a tool
for getting rid of them so she got this out and tried to get it off me. The little fella wasn’t for shifting though
and it took a lot of attempts to get it off.
In fact, we just ended up killing it, but it was still suck in and there
was getting less and less of it to get a grip on. After a while the lady went and got a pair of
tweezers and Duncan had to get a grip of it, twist it anti-clockwise and pull
it out. He took half my skin with it I
think but eventually got it out, it was in really deep! I didn’t realise they went that deep.
After a bit of driving round and stopping at various places,
we ended up in the pub at Ardfern.
All in all, the best day so far of the holiday… save for the
tick!
Positive comments: Kept going on steep climbs and didn’t walk, even
though I was exhausted.
Total distance – 5.15
miles
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