‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, and all through the house…..
…..the excitement is building!
I’ve been munching on sprouts: my fave! 🙂
I wish you all a peaceful, fun and relaxing Christmas: unless you are running, then I wish you good weather and loads of good food!
I hope Santa brings you what you need this year 😀
Happy Monday, everyone!
And Happy Christmas Eve’s Eve!
My new Christmas scarf arrived, just in time for returning to work today:
No running for us tonight: it’s wild out there again! But @TheWelshWookie and I do need to agree the distance we are going to run on Christmas Day.
Any suggestions? Are you planning a run for tomorrow or Wednesday?
The events for 2014 continue to gather momentum in the TartanJogger/WelshWookie household: we’ve signed up for the GB Relay 2014!
The aim is to break the world record for the longest continuous relay, around the coast of Britain. Did someone say record attempt? We’re in!
The British coast has been split into 594 stages, and the run is done continuously, 24 hours a day, during June and July 2014.
@TheWelshWookie and I will be running stage 138, from Duror to Strath of Appin Primary School, which is at the very north of Argyll and Bute. Our stage is on 8th June, at 18:19, and our stage is 12.5K long.
We’re really looking forward to being part of such a brilliant event! For ore information, or to sign up, visit GBrelay.com
Has anyone else bagged a stage yet?
@TheWelshWookie and I have signed up for the 5×50 challenge 2014!
This is our second year of participating: we had such fun last year!
Here’s TheWookie sporting his 5×50 challenge t shirt at the Perth Kilt Run earlier this year.
The challenge is to sign up, make a small (or large) donation, and commit to running, cycling, walking (or doing a class, or equivalent) Â 5K each day, for 50 days.
The challenge begins on Sunday, 30th March 2014, and since @TheWelshWookie and I get married on 11th April (have I shared that news? I can’t remember!) the challenge will be running right through our wedding weekend.
That should keep us on the running straight-and-narrow!
We’ve set up a team, #a5x50wedding, which was coined by Raymond Wallace on twitter. Raymond is one of the founders of the challenge, who RT’d my tweet when I signed up on Saturday! Thanks for that, hope you don’t mind that I’ve pinched it!
You can read all about this fantastic challenge here.
Anyone can sign up and join in: will you? Fancy joining our team?
Afternoon, all, I hope your weekend is off to a brilliant start!
We have more gale force winds forecast for today, and so I’m blogging while I still have power: pray it stays on, please!
@TheWelshWookie and I have braved the wind and the rain, and we have been for a run down the harbour.
It was blowing a hoolie!
I fair enjoyed it, though it was only a short run. The village still looks strangely welcoming in the midst of a storm:
Now, we’re drying off, thawing out and hunkering down for an afternoon of movies, kicking off with Santa Claus: The Movie I think!
Anyone else running through the gales or other poor weather today?
I hope this helps, if you are struggling at the start of this week:
Have a great week, all!
When you’re away in a different city and running, do you buy yourself souvenirs?
I do! 🙂
Here are some of the new baubles we have collected this year:
The first is my Harrods bauble, which I picked up when I was in London for The Color Run UK back in July. We always buy a Harrods bauble each year, and have done that since 2007, so we now have seven!
Next, is the silver ornament we bought at the Guinness factory in Dublin. We picked this up when we visited for the inaugural RnR Dublin half marathon in August.
Bottom right is a wooden heart with a reindeer’s head, which I got when in Centre Parcs for the Hen Do. Not a race, but I did go for a run that day.
Finally, the sparkly red reindeer is from The Tree Shop at Cairndow. We stopped off there after the inaugural CowalFest trail run, which was in October.
@TheWelshWookie and I have also given in to temptation, and bought some festive goodies.
We now have stollen, as well as these:
I’m looking forward to having a glass of mulled cider, and to tasting these cinnamon Pringles! They also had Mint Choc Pringles, but I though those were a step too far!
Anyone else tried those?
Meanwhile this weekend, I seem to have transformed completely into the embarrassing old auntie….
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