Celebration!
January 29, 2012
Currently imbibing some Orkney Black Portent wine, @ 16.5% ABV it is at the ‘Port’ end of the wine scale. very nice it is too, if a bit rich for my usual taste. We picked this up when up in Orkney visiting Theresa’s relations and doing other stuff a couple of years ago, and it has been gathering dust – so it got cracked open last night.
Why am I celebrating? Well, after heading down to the penultimate Borders XC meet at Berwick – Upon – Tweed, and pulling out after a mile along the beach, realisation hit me hard in the face – I need to do something about my lingering calf issue and will be booking an appointment with Ray Head this week. My usual strategy of running through injury is not working, so Ray is the guy to sort this out. He did the bizz last time around with my right calf, so I have confidence that he will fix this. I want to be sorted for Carnethy 5 in 2 weeks.
Berwick is a tough course – like trying to run in quicksand for the first 1/3 mile, then you have the same on the way back. Not the most imaginative of courses, its a straight out and back, relentless mile on sand on the way out, up onto the clifftop track, along, turn around then then back along the sand – gruelling in a not really getting anywhere kind of way….I only got so far as the cliff-top, then slow jogged back to the finish.
Caught Andrew Crichton of Dunbar storming in first position, with the 2nd runner hanging in behind, 3rd position and beyond were well back and strung out along the other end of the beach as these two came past.
Nice to meet and have a quick chat with Peter Buchanan of Porty, he ran well.
Hoping to be fit for the final leg at Floors Castle, be nice to do a new route.
