Summertime - or was it?

Last week saw a return to Speed of Light duties. With the glorious weather and the clocks springing forward, we headed for the hills or Arthur’s Seat to be precise. On Monday night the Craggs were surprisingly busy with people and runners, in particular, as we headed with stopwatch and map in hand to familiarise ourselves with paths on Arthur’s seat. Coming to a halt on the hill we looked across the Craggs and to our astonishment there in the distance was our mirror image a couple of runners poring over a map and clutching a stopwatch – it’s an amazing place Arthur’s seat where all things are possible. After an hour and a half on the hills we decided enough was enough and we headed home, noting that we really do need to up the hill work, some of these paths are pretty steep.

The rest of the week was spent with our jogscotland group taking them on longer runs to get them ready for the Tom Scott road race in a couple of weeks. Must admit, they are all doing really well but it is an awful lot easier to go out running when the conditions are so good. The true test will come when the weather deteriorates and you need to drag yourself out there.

Once again on Saturday we headed for Strathclyde parkrun for our weekly parkrun fix. Again we were blessed with perfect running conditions although for some unknown reasons we both found it hard going this week could have had something to do with burning the candle at both ends. Again something else to avoid in August!

Sunday saw April arrive and us heading into Edinburgh at five am for our gig at the Kilomathon. Surprisingly we had to scrape ice of the car! We were responsible for the Start area and had to get it set-up before the runners arrived. As a runner you never appreciate how much work goes into setting-up one of these events or for that matter how many people are beavering away behind the scenes to deliver the event. Anyway when you have The Jammys at your disposal then anything is possible. All too quickly the runners left the start area and we got the start area back to normal and headed home – home by 10:30 not bad, the rest of the day was our own to do as we wished in the spring sunshine.