Tempting

Got this message the other day on dating site......

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George Clooney he aint.

tempted as i am, i might let him slip through my fingers this time

Are we there yet?

Work as predicted was awful on Tue/Wed. In at 6.15 both days (normal) ran there (normal) didn't leave til 4.45 Tue (abnormal) and 4 wed (abnormal)No break, no sit down for cuppa T, nothing. was srsly fucked off.

Anyway, today was better, busy still but better. Can anyone give me a running related job please? I can run a lot, and i talk a lot. good qualities i reckon.

Stephen was going to call me yesterday but i told him to just txt or FB me, silly to waste money when i can *chat* on there to him. So had Facebook chat with him, he's nice and brown already and having great time, and wanted to know if house was tidy and if i'd cut the grass! ffs, when did the tables turn there?

Had Gavin round for dinner tonight after cancelling on him last week due to bumpy head incident. Got plan sorted for Flip's support so he has gone off full and happy now. I cant get my cool box shut, do i take out the lucozade or the champagne?

dilemmas

Breaking News

well for some folk. A select few know already.

I'm doing the WHW race next year.

If they'll let me in anyway! :-o

I'm a Hazard to myself

Been bit of a week for me! Monday i sliced my finger open, true to style i was busy and didn't want to stop so stuck a glove over it until it filled up with blood then i stopped and put plaster on, by wed i kept busting it open again so after some advice popped along to boots to get butterfly stitches.

Pharmacist looked at it and told me not to bother, that i should have went to hospital on Monday for 2 stitches :-o and that I'd have a hole in my finger from now on. rock on, makes me more unique i guess!

Thursday i was doing my banking and i opened drawer for calculator, dropped pen bent down to pick it up and whacked my head on corner of said opened drawer. Nearly knocked myself out. Got sicker and dizzier as day progressed and after proper real advice from real Doctor (thanks Mark) i went home to bed with strict instruction to head to A&E if sick. I went straight to bed and feel asleep by time Stephen brought me cup tea! Got up few hrs later and had bath, still felt sick but realised hadn't eaten so Stephen made me some chips and tea and brought to my bed for me, bless him.

Felt fine Friday so ran to work as normal :o) Would seem it didn't knock any sense into me after all. On ly problem was that Gavin was meant to be coming round for dinner to discuss Team Phil stuff for next weekend but i had to cancel after bumpy head incident. Rescheduling for midweek i think.

Stephen was heading off to Spain Friday night so i was down at Kelly's parents to wave them all off, Stephen walked me back up road at midnight, their taxi was arriving at 12.15. 2 weeks home alone, n one to run me baths and make me tea! aaargh


Saturday i was west highland way recceing with Jules & Scott, Steve joined us on Sunday. Plan was to head straight up to Devil, run up and down that. Go book in Hostel, yes i did say hostel and not hotel :-o everywhere was fully booked! jeezo,i hate slumming it! Then fne pub to watch Footy in! bonza.

Start as you mean to go i say. Scott had mailed me earlier to say he'd meet me at station and would bring Tea & Biccies. bugger that. I nipped into M&S, got a (Cateran)Beer for Scott & Baby bottle of bubbly for me :) Also picked u full sized one for after Devil and beer & cider for the boys.

Just had time t grab a burger before heading to get train.Proper serious athlete i am. Scott made a bit of a show of getting cups and flask out,but i take your tea and i raise yu a beer! guess what won?

oh we also had packet of toffypops, we'd actually both arrived with toffypops lol :)Hour passed in flash and before long we were at stirling and Jules was dutifully waiting on us. We were all in running gear ready to hit ground running so to speak soon as we arrived. We managed to get parking space right at bottom f Devils Staircase, perfect. Off we went running up it, only for a sea of caledonian challengers to descend on us lol we were saying well done to everyone but they were most amused and kept on telling US well done and said we were putting them to shame by running up the hill!We got to top after passing about 50 challengers to find a whole plethora of them at top, we decided to run on a bit more so we could see the fabled Kinlochleven and then turn back.

Last time I'd been up the devil was during last yrs WHW race, but it was in the dead of night and i didn't get any of the views, only big scary bears jumping out at me from behind rocks. Or that couldve just been sleep deprivation, who knows.. ;) So it was good to be back in glorious sunshine and even more glorious views. Kinlochleven still doesn't exist though, it only gets further away the closer you get. factomundo.

Once we saw the mirage that is Kinlochleven we turned back and aced it past all the challengers again. Some saying, crazy girl runner coming through! lol, do they know me? ;)

Got to bottom, had bit of chat with some blokes who'd been doing the Munro challenge then jumped in car to head to hostel, yes a hostel, did i mention hostel. :p Actually it wasn't so bad, except that Jules had said it was about half mile to pub, we passed pub and kept driving, and driving... hmmm, bring headtorch he said for road trip to pub,how about bring a bike? ffs

We got into hostel and i unveiled my bubbly, cider and beer only for Jules to upstage me by producing a chilled bottle and a real champagne glass just for me! He is pure class that boy :) We got stuck right in and quickly got to know our roomie, a german blokey called Wolfgang, yes really. I sloped off for shower and was ready fairly quickly but got laughed at for being glammed up and wearing my roclites

I did think about taking my heels, of course i did. But getting told we'd be schlepping to pub half mile away (2 miles more like!) i decided against it and roclites were the footwear of choice. After finding out the footy wasn't even on at that pub we called a cab to head to one further out. Got there about 1/2 hr after it started, it was hooching! I was at bar when US scored and the place erupted! Then they kept showing it over & over and they place erupted each time, it ws really funny!

There was actually really good mix of folk there, quite few English even with their faces painted, brave souls. Had a blast in pub, even contemplated Karaoke but they never had songs i wanted, Wolfgang was also going to sing lol but they couldn't find song for him either. Can vaguely remember taxi ride home and gatecrashed party in cottage next door but i soon vacated after finding them having drinking games, somehow sensible Sandra took over and i staggered off to bed instead, fully clothed lol

Awake early and thankfully first thing i saw was irn bru. Irn bru and toffypops for breakfast lol, i actually do eat healthily rest of time honest!

Got up and dressed and we were soon heading to Glencoe to meet Steve, he arrived and jumped in car and we headed off to Bridge orchy to start run for day.

Today's run was BoO to Glencoe, so right across Rannoch Moor, which was another part i'd not covered and wanted to before next week as i knew Phil finds that part tough.I'll need to make sure he doesnt see this sign next week which we pass just at end of moor!

So 11.2 miles. done n dusted. Was bit misty and drizzly but we got to car just as it started to rain hard. Said our goodbyes to Steve and headed to GoodFood Cafe for refuelling. Boy did we need food, last i'd eaten was the burger the day before :-o if you dont count the 2 toffypops for breakfast that is..


Fish and chips and big cuppa T, sorted. JUles dropped us off in Stirling and we got train home. Flippin great weekend :)

Thanks to Jules for ferrying us around and sorting out somewhere to stay, star. x

Rantalong with Sandra

Maybe it's time to deregister when all i do is rant about the dating site?


*deep breath*


why the fuck would i invite someone to my house without meeting them? why? Surely a dating site should be just that? ie- you want to go on a date before you fuck thier brains out?


Paula told me i had to be pro-active and go make a date, so i dipped my toe back in...

I've ditched the idea of meeting bloke i've been txting for last 3wks, if we cant move forward from 3 weeks then whats the point, yes a lot of it is my fault due to races/training weekends, marathon supporting etc but hey ho, priorities and all that. He's anther one who quite happily wanted to come meet me at my house mind you.

Guy i've been mailing for few days, seemed normal, intelligent etc, suggests meeting. I said ok, when and where> he said *your house* i mailed him back saying i presume that was a joke, do you really think id invite a complete stranger into my house? He mailed back saying *i can kiss the back of your neck whilst you make me a coffee*

what the fuck?? he is now blocked.

Is everyone out there tightwads or something? I'm happy to pay my own friggin way! jeeez, all i want is a date before jumping into bed with someone! is that too much to ask?

for crying out loud. Not like this is an isolated incident either. Maybe i just look like a dirty whore or something or someone who needs a good seeing to.



oh, I'm over 1000 miles for the year now, last 2 run have been crap though.

No Sex in the City

Plenty champagne shopping and laughs though!

What a fabulous day. Got to Howie's just before Jemima so had glass of champagne waiting. Got to love that Place for BYOB and only £3 corkage charge woop! We decided that seeing it was such lovely day we'd only drink one of our bottles and take other one to Princes st gardens and enjoy the sunshine.

Lovely lunch, then sauntered off to St James st for disposable glasses (gotta love pound shop!) we also ventured int John Lewis to have quick look at dresses and quick squirt of Chanel :) Then it was onto Multrees walk, Harvey Nicks to laugh at ridiculously prices dresses, where we were accosted by a gok wan lookylikey wanting to be my personal shopper. Seeing that most of dresses I'd looked at and liked , Dior £975, Chloe £685 was in cloud cukooland price range i declined and we made quick exit.

Found nice spot next to Scott Monument, kicked off shoes and sipped our champagne and watched world go by til our peace was shattered by free Palestine march! they stopped outside M&S for ages shouting boycott M&S? not sure why but i was tempted to fight my way through and go in just to annoy them :p I felt sorry for all the poor grannies trying to get out with their support tights and panty girdles only to be met with that!

Champers finished we headed to more shops, this itself is very unusual, Jemima and I dnt do shopping. We like football and drinking and stuff, shopping is dull and tiring and dull.

Anyway, we covered LOTS shops, LK Bennet, Debenhams, Coast to name a few and Karen Millen of course, to see if they had *that* dress. They did, in size12 :( and it was cerise pink, not red! Girl in shop said everyone said it looked red on website. Still lovely colour but they didn't have it in my size and it was limited edition. So the hunt for dress for Ball goes on. Shopping over and done with we decided to make most of sun and headed to M&S ;) to buy chilled bottle bubbles to take back to gardens. They had none so we ended up with Sainsbury's Cava which was lovely. We also picked up few nibbles to have a mini picnic, shopping is exhausting and we'd walked for miles building up wee appetite again!

As we left Sainsburys i pointed to bloke with umbreall under his arm and said *does he know something we dont?*

We settled down again nr same spot as before but looked a tad worried at gathering black clouds. Jemima said, oh i felt spot rain there, then i did too. So we moved under tree and carried on drinking. Suddenly the heavens opened! cue everyone running for cover under trees and to bus stops etc! lol we stayed there for 10mins before it started pouring through the damn trees soaking us through!

We made decision to run to nearest pub, which was in rose st. I put my shoes and they were gritty and sore on my feet so i started jumping in puddles n princes st! mustve looked like loony dressed n heels and pretty dress jumping around in puddles haha it worked though and got all grit off, and the puddles were warm!

Got into the Abbostsford looking like 2 drowned rats, it was HEAVING! Clearly everyone who'd been outside had dived in soon as rain started. Jemima headed to bar and i went off to dry hair & try dry dress wee bit, wet tshirt styleee isn't good look in busy pub ;)

here we are all dry again

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Had few drinks there before heading off home. Brilliant day with my best Friend.