Coming and Going

Again it’s been a long time since i last posted, been busy busy busy, Well when I say more too lazy to post to the blog. If it’s a choice between writing about doing things or actually doing things its no choice at all. So we spent the summer running at dawn before the sun kicked in and then strolling through the fields once it did. It works well for us, neither of us particulary likes running in heat and I always feel its my choice if I do so but Murph would just follow me until he collapsed and thats not fair.

Between all that running and walking we’ve seen a bit of an increase on the old Murphometer.

Thats right we are around 1800 miles – which means I think we’re going to be done with 2000 miles this year a few months in advance – I’m sure we’ll keep it ticking over though. I’ve been pondering it and I think next year I’ll forget about logging mileage – it’s an interesting thing to do but I want to also just wander without having the numbers clicking through my brain. After all that the reason I don’t train with a watch anymore.

We also started exploring the Brecon beacons again now we can go back out there in preperation for some plans I have a long way down the line and of course it’s always great to get out there with murph for a day.

And some sad news is that we lost little Trouble the cat after 21 years. The little dude just got too old in the end. Weird to spend almost half your life with an animal and then he’s gone. I still look for him waddling about in his old routine and find myself still saying morning to him first thing as he headed for his food bowl.

However onwards and upwards. The sadness fades and there are always happy memories and many more memories to make with Murph. It just brings it more into focus.

And so on with the photos!

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  Time to wake up?

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  Murph met a new friend and behaved impeccably

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  Im a giant idiot – but happy

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  A few days before it was time to say goodbye to our friend

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  Getting my happy strut back on

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  Out in the Brecon beacons exploring

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  We going up right? You sure you want to run it dad?

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  Scree = fun

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  I can see for miles!

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  Find me some shade

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  Early morning lightshow

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  The other use for bales once its cooler

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  Surveying Witches Point

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  Halfway througha run and happy

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  Last weekend – I can this sheep at sunrise

Today we proudly present …

The murphometer!  As mentioned in a previous post our goal this year is to walk and run 2000 miles. Progress has been steady and as you can see from the power of high-tec wizardry we have cracked the 500 miles mark!  After a 200 mile march – due in no small part to working from home and spring bringing lighter mornings and evenings we got there a few days ago.

Stay tuned for very infrequent updates when I actually remember to update!

Apart from that – obviously still running and walking while of course maintaining social distancing (It’s not hard to do while living out here to be fair)

Be glad of the fence – this is actually top of the cliffs and theres a 200 foot drop a few feet to the left

Dawn runs at the beach

Dawn skies in the fields – and the rapeseed is suddenly shooting up and starting to flower – bring on the spring allergies!