Stuck up near Edinburgh with work (which – BTW – sucks! ๐ ) I’ve been looking for ways to occupy myself and take advantage of the long Scottish summer evenings… Especially to help combat the effects of hotel and fast food; too much of which has significant lard building capabilities without enough exercise. ๐
My hotel, although only eight miles outside Edinburgh, is in an amazing country side location and has an attractive golf course attached. As I don’t play golf, I thought a good way to explore the estate would be to run around the perimeter of the course. There’s a short “jogging trail” along one side of the estate but it’s forbidden to run beyond that across the course – I suppose there’s a risk that runners might get a golf ball in the head, or more likely, they don’t want to distract the fat American golfers from their game. However, I asked the hotel concierge if anyone would notice or mind me running around the estate perimeter later in the day after work. He said “who’s going to notice?”, I took that to be as good as a nod and a wink. ๐ But I still avoided the greens in particular for fear of being shouted (or shot ๐ฎ ) at by the green keepers!
No midges, or were you moving too fasr for them? ๐
Nope, I was not moving too fast… I actually did get attacked quite a lot! ๐ฅ
We spent a nice weekend there a couple of years ago for James & Kirsty’s wedding – guess what, the father of the bride is keen on golf! And now his son-in-law is too.
Ian and I did that run before the wedding I think. We definitely did it before breakfast the day after the wedding, to work up an appetite: is the breakfast still as good? Ian could not believe his eyes.
Sadly th weather here has not been conducive to post-work jogging. (I get put off far too easily!)
Not sure if the breakfasts are as good as when you were here – but I’d guess they are as they’re pretty standard hotel buffet affairs. Although I only ever have two weetabix and a glass of orange juice… :good:
I hope this “health post” doesn’t mark a change of emphasis in content ๐
Where are the pictures of the cakes that are bringing you to such dramatic measures โ
Maybe pictures of the fast food would be more suitable. I am also working away from home … I went for a less beautiful run tonight which led me along some country lanes … and then I found this hill that was perfect for a hill session, so I ran up it 8 times (and down) and then continued. I found a footpath which led in approximately the right direction – then after nettles, ragwort, a very dodgy stile and very wet, horizontal grass I arrived at a road much further away that I anticipated. I continued and thankfully found my way back to the B+B – which is by no means a castle!
You ran up the same hill 8 times! Quite mad! ๐
I think we had the posh breakfast, which was inclusive. This was lucky as when I added up what I’d had for breakfast it came to ยฃ46.00!!
Yeah, I can pick from kippers, salmon, full Scottish (aka English ๐ ), pretty much anything with my inclusive deal too. But like I say, I just have cereal. :good: