20's plenty-to the end of Airth and back!!

This week's run was a wee adventure with a drive to our starting point and a new route!

An early start was the order of the day with Jim at Sean's for 7.15 and the girls collected 5 minutes later.  No one knew where we were going, however all was revealed as we pulled into the car park at the Wheelhouse, Falkirk (the sister of our usual haunt the Boathouse!)

Song No1 was guessed en route (more of that later).

The run started brightly and indeed we had a little sing along about the weather, which started with "oh what a beautiful morning" and finished with "why does it always rain on me" and "the windy city" (how appropriate as this pretty much mirrored our conditions with bright and dry on the way out for 10 miles and then running into strong wind and rain on the way back!)

Song No2 (yes, 2 songs this week!) was guessed at about 3 miles with some heavy clues given!

As a wee treat, the route was flat although fairly uneventful (which may be good for the legs, but no use whatsoever for the blog!!!)

We stopped at a petrol station for a pee and Carolyn bought a Mars Bar-67p!!!!. Unfortunately she only had 57p but the nice lady let her off with the 10p and said she could pass on the kindness to someone else! WE"RE still WAITING!!!

As we attempted our reverse split technique for the second week, we turned at 9:27 average pace.  We may need to think this through, as for the second week running we started the first mile of the second split as though we were Kenyans sprinting for the line and pushed for home!! Particularly Kip Pettigrew, who put in a potential man of the match performance!!  We finished with a 9:18 average!!

We tried to converse on the way back but between wind (not Jim, this week!) and steely determination this was not top priority!!

Great effort by everyone, with the heaviest session of miles behind us now and some strong performances all round!

Best laugh of the day came in the Wheelhouse though!! Breakfast ordered and all settled discussing our splits, with Jim basking in his glory (that doesn't sound right!!!) Carolyn asked the bemused waitress if she had a blanket (probably a first ever such request!!!).  You could almost hear the shout of "weirdos!!!" from the kitchen!

Roll on next week and our easy peasy 13 miler!!! Will feel like a wee short run, after the last few weeks!