I barely did any exercise this week, save for walking Ruby
and walking home from the train station.
Without having my van (which is still having its gearbox sorted) I couldn’t
get to the gym. That’s no excuse for not
running though. I don’t have an excuse
for that.
Friday, 2 February
I managed to get out for a short run with Ruby today as I was
climbing the walls without doing any exercise.
We only ran out towards Rivington Barn though but as I had forgotten a
torch and it was getting dark, I had to cut the run short and head through the
Pinetum and back home.
Distance – 2.5 miles
Sunday, 4 February
Duncan, Ruby and I stayed at the Langdale NT campsite last
night in the van as Duncan was meeting some friends today in Torver for an MTB
ride. As we’re not Camping and
Caravanning Club members, we were turned away from the campsite at the Church
House Inn in Torver. I didn’t mind as
the campsite at Langdale is much more scenic anyway and we had some good grub
in the Old Dungeon Ghyll last night.
Whilst Duncan went riding, I hitched Ruby up to her harness
and waist lead, got out my OS map and headed up Walna Scar. I’ve never been up that way before it and was
a lovely walk, especially higher up where there was quite a lot of snow
underfoot. When we got to the path
junction, I decided against turning right to go up Brown Pike as Ruby seemed to
be struggling a little, possibly due to the fact that she hadn’t eaten since
Friday night. She doesn’t like to eat
whilst camping, possibly because she’s out of her routine. I had some food in my pocket for her though
and kept feeding her bits of this throughout the walk but she still didn’t have
much of it. Instead, we turned left and
walked up to a summit called White Maiden.
After enjoying the view, we headed back down again but returned to
Torver via a different route. When
walking downhill through a farm field, I slipped in some mud and ended up on my
backside, jarring my left wrist slightly.
At first, I thought I’d broken it but the numbness soon wore off and it
felt OK, if a little stiff.
I arrived back at the van before Duncan so I put Ruby’s
little jacket on as by now she was feeling the cold and made myself a cup of
tea. I sat reading my book until a van
pulled up at the side of me and a couple got out with mountain bikes, one of
which had a wicker basket attached to the front. I thought the basket seemed a bit odd on a
mountain bike but I then saw that the
reason for this is that there was a little puppy nestled in it! Obviously I had to get out of the van to go
and make a fuss of said puppy which it turned out was a baby Patterdale
Terrier. As my own Patterdale Terrier is
a complete and utter menace, I left her in the van because her dislike of other
dogs isn’t discriminatory and she would still go for a puppy.
Distance – 7 miles
Stats:
Week’s total running distance: 2.5 miles
Week’s total walking distance: 7 (plus daily standard Ruby walks)
Week’s total cycling
distance: 0
Week’s total swimming distance: 0
Total number of S&C sessions: 0
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