Well I did week 9 run 2 today ! The run itself went fine - covered 2.4 miles in the thirty minutes so a wee bit more than last time ! Still not even 4K yet though - so impressed with anyone who can reach 5 k!! Thirty minutes seemed long , but doable !
Heading back home , walking bit of podcast finished, so reached into my pocket for my door key. Not there.... Searched again. It's a small pocket at the back of my capris trousers so fiddly at the best of times. Definitely no key.
Sighing I turned round a few yards from home and retraced my route (walking this time) peering at the ground frantically looking. Tried to ring my husband ( who had gone out for a long loch side cycle) but no signal. Back up the road, down the farm track, desperately thinking when I had taken my phone in or out the pocket. Probably in the long grass in the middle of the track i think. Looked in vain. Felt exhausted and desperate for water . Sustained myself with a couple of wild raspberries. So much easier to pick when walking by than running!!
Back to the Tarmac road, down to my lovely hay bales. No key. Back towards home. Maybe I left it in the lock and never put it in the pocket? Trudge trudge. Legs aching now. Thinking what to do as hubby could be a few hours. Realise I can get into my neighbours (whose dogs I walk occasionally) so much needed water awaits!! Refresh I think, then look again!
Finally get mobile signal. No reply though. Leave a message saying ring me I'm stuck outside in my running gear!
Back home. No key on the path or in the lock. Wander up and down the road in case I dropped it there at the start and phone rings! Lovely hubby hears my tale of woe and agrees to call off his cycle and come home. He will be an hour though.
Relief returns. Ring neighbours bell. No response just barks from the dogs. Head round the back use the hidden key and let myself in their back door. Two bouncy Labradors delighted to see me. Water.. Water... Grab a mug fill it at the sink and drain it in one. Refill it and head out to the wee garden with my canine pals. Is there a seat? Yes a wee bench sparkles in the sunlight. Sit down, sip my water pat the dogs and explain I'm too tired to walk them this this time!
Check my phone. Map my run tells me I've been out for one hour forty two minutes. Covered 6.7 miles. I did a five minute walk to start then thirty minute run so that's an hour and seven minutes cool down walk. The longest one ever. Over three miles.
Relaxed and recovered, made myself a cuppa feeling a bit guilty in someone else's home, but very much in need, drink it out side then say farewell to the dogs and head home to wait on the doorstep like a waif and stray. Luckily it's not raining !
Knight in shining armour returned. Not very amused at his abandoned cycle plans but supportive all the same. Got into the house (yay) and headed for a most welcome shower. I'd been in my running clothes nearly three hours. Cold sweat is horrible... And made me shiver !!
We only have two door keys ( it's a rented house) so need another. He googles locksmiths. Find ones in Perth and Stirling, both about half an hour away... Agree I'll head out and try and get a key cut and he will stay in but first we will walk my running route again.
This time... We find it! A welcome gleam of gold in the middle of the road!
All is well in Hilary world again.
And only one more run left. Let's hope it's a shorter cool down walk or I will have a very sore voice shouting that I have graduated !!
Longest run yet.
Twenty minutes of running, no slow down, an increase instead!
Fail to prepare, prepare to almost fail!
longest run ever
