You up for the challenge?
Run a 10k.
Your target time in minutes is your age!
I turn 40 on 3rd October…… simple 40 minutes target time!
Here is the catch; for every minute you are over your target time you donate to charity….£1….£5…..£10?? What? you not feeling confident? OK 50p per minute but get training!!
Try to get sponsors to match your donation
Why not set up a JustGiving account to make it easy, choose your charity and start raising money
Don’t worry if you can’t make it to Inverness for this 10k. Find one near you and take the challenge
NEWS So we have eight participants confirmed, 24 excuses and a number of people not answering their phones!!
The worst excuse is from Gary who claims he can’t find one of his trainers……double the time to hop??
Murr claims he ‘cannae run a bath….’
It is not an excuse to be fat or lazy….sorry
On a positive note John McF is flying in from France for the event with big talk of a training regime.
We had a great trip to The Big Tent Festival at the weekend. Our local festival in Fife. Great music, superb food and the beer from The Black Isle Brewery was OK too!
Fi and sunny Falkland
We had a wonderful weekend,all your senses are activated at this festival. On Sunday that extra sense kicked in too….
Fiona is in training for the Loch Ness Marathon (more about running soon) so she is dragging me out on some of the runs. We had a sticky but enjoyable run up into The Lomonds and were trotting back into Falkland, salivating at the thought of a Puddledubler for brunch!
We heard a fellow runner coming up quick behind and an old fella and his dog appeared. The smiling collie danced along, tongue hanging out with pure pleasure and his lean owner slowed to our pace for a chat. It turns out Bob owns the fiddle shop in Falkland; buying, selling repairing. Bob has done that run or similar every day for 33 years! It was hard to tell if he was 53 or 73!!
Anyway we got to chatting about the festival and the music. Bob casually dropped in to conversation, in the nicest possible way, that Rosanne Cash was popping in to the shop on Monday and oh yeah he had met her dad too!
Bob in the linen suit casually accepts the Cash fans interest
Well this was confirmed to us in the best possible way as an emotional Rosanne waved to Bob, standing beside us in the crowd, and gave him a mention. The Cash fans buzzed around him asking if he could pass a book on to be signed, showing him letters received from Johnny researching his family history.
Rosanne sang as if she was singing to a crowd full of friends, the sun shone and we felt, well something!
There was a great turnout for the fair that makes up the opening event. King Robert The Bruce came along to present the Royal Charter to Crail as he did 700 years ago. He looks pretty good for his age!
The party went on afterwards with AlbannachThe perfect band for an event like this. Drumming, Piping and dancing
Festival went off with a bang
I helped out at the food stall. Graham and Edna from The Honeypot in Crail were offering some great burgers, chilli and curry.
I went for some classic Crail dishes; crab, lobster and smoked haddock chowder. Seemed to go down well!
As we plan another trip to Denholm I need to report on my last trip.
It seems my articles this summer are based on places to visit outwith Fife so I will continue the theme…
We went down to Denholm for Fiona’s birthday weekend which happens to coincide with the Common Riding season; Hawick’s Common-Riding celebrates both the capture of an English Flag in 1514 by the youth of Hawick at a place called Hornshole and the ancient custom of riding the marches or boundaries of the common land.
We hung out on Denholm green, packed with groups of friends from the surrounding area, eating, drinking and as it happened enjoying the blazing sunshine!
This is a new festival to me and the importance to the local community had pretty much passed me by. What a great occasion with the crowds cheering and two hundred horses coming round the village green. I was amazed to see the crowd was pretty much totally locals with few if any tourists. As a country we market the Highland Games, a slightly manufactured, tourist friendly event. However in the Common Riding events we have vibrant, historic events, properly rooted in the local communities.
The Cornet and his Right and Left hand Men
If all you do is sit on the green and cheer I urge you to go and take part. Just be wary of invites to drink rum and milk from dawn
