Eilidh with a proto-point in June
I reckon socialising your baby is great - Eilidh has learned to point, which she'd have done anyway I suppose - but I reckon she's copied it from Ruby and Clara and adopted it earlier as a consequence. She's also learned to hold onto things very tightly as Ruby and Clara give her toys and take other ones away, just as you'd expect kids to do. But back to pointing. She has figured out that pointing means that either we give her thing she is pointing to or we take her to it, and boy what a revelation that has been for her. I can communicate! I can ask for things! Yeehah! she must be saying. Needless to say she is pointing at everything and even wakes up pointing a bit like a zombie from a b-movie, her eyes not open, her arms waving madly, pointing pointing uuurrrgghhh .... :-)
On the running front I went out to dehydrate myself to death in 26C+ heat this Saturday just past with my 'peaking' long run before the Devil O the Highlands. It was lovely, totally dry underfoot and a gorgeous sunny day. Rather too hot though so I ran out of water on the way back from Coombe Hill (it was an out and back route), desperately looking for someone in a garden in Tring as I passed through, but no-one was there. I made it back to the car but the last 2 miles were very tough. My calf started off tight and developed a real knot that I tried to work out en route but to no avail. My wife has been massaging it. My left knee hurt a bit too. Niggles niggles niggles ...
Elevation profile of long Ridgeway run from Pitstone Hill to Coombe Hill and back
Distance: 22.6 miles
Ascent / descent: +1766' / -1807'
Time: 03:26:03 (+ a 15 min half way break to enjoy a view)
Splits: 9:07 (avg), 8:25 (max), 10:02 (min)
On the Ridgeway above Tring at the Wigginton trig point
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1 comment:
Hey, mate! put a Helly Hansen top on little Eilidh and it could be her Dad sitting there!!!
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