Recovery run sponsored by Instagram

My legs were still feeling very heavy today after Sunday's mtb ride, despite resting yesterday, so I decided a recovery run was in order. Ruby and Matt were off to North berwick when I got home so I had the chance to run in the daylight. Nethy hadn't been out all day so she came with me.

Not much to say about the run, other than the first 2 miles were hellish as my legs were like lead. It soon occured to me that stopping and taking lots of pictures along the way would make the whole thing much more enjoyable, so I did!

My new phone is a monster, but it's also very light and the battery is unbelievably frugal for a smart phone, so it hardly even registered that I was using Map My Run and Instagram at the same time. My old HTC would have drained faster than a fairy in a vampire nest! I decided to use Instagram, but alas I didn't use any of the fancy filters cause I have no idea what I'm doing yet, so they just look like regular photos.

My run took me past the Burns Monument, which is actually to mark the spot near where Rabbie Burns' old mother had a cottage. There's a Burns Well too, but I wouldn't drink out of it if you paid me! Nethy had a sip or two though :) We ended up in Lennoxlove again, although the difference being that it was daylight. It is a beautiful Estate and I'd love to live in one of the lovely cottages that are dotted around the grounds. We saw 2 deer grazing nearby and they didn't flee when they saw us, probably because they were so confident I'd get nowhere near them at the pedestrain pace I was plodding along at!

I felt much better by the time we got home. My legs were lighter and as always my mood had lifted. I need to get some longer weekday runs in though and I'm desperate to run somewhere new. Haddington is getting old! This weekend we're in London so I must try to get out for a longer run in the next few days.

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