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#runningwithdogs

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Woke up to 1" of sleety snow, 0c, with borderline icy rain and thick fog, which would make today's remote run at 1300m a bit silly, since I didn't know the route/terrain.

Jumped into HQ and drove 1000m down and found sunshine and views of the stunning snowy mountains.

Run wasn't as fast as I had hoped because first we found a cows horn that the Irish mutt wanted to play and then run with for over a 1km with. Then we found the cows had set up camp on the trail/farm track so we had to navigate around and hope we didn't set off a stampede.

The Spanish mutt did some dry stone checking for @kristiedegaris ;)

Since we had rain yesterday the trail was a bit moist, one uphill was running against gravity and the water flow. Penny the Spanish mutt loved the route, loads of rabbit poop to eat... I skipped out on one peak to take the route to 6.5km, as I'm still coming back from the "time off", I think my bumb and thighs would have moaned if I did, so only 5.75km

I gotta learn that the Irish mutt isn’t Tilley, since I blindly could rely on her to navigate. She never took us the wrong way, when we were out hiking and she would stop and ask for confirmation if she wasn't sure. With Paddy, it's that way, go!

So even on today's short run to check route, legs and if there were any caterpillars. We got lost, well off the beaten track and we had to really scamper and bushwack our way back on track.

Funny while we were out, running in the dry, the HQ was getting soaked.

This is my running partners in a rare quiet moment. Penny the Podenco aka Spanish mutt and Mr Patrick the Irish mutt aka Paddylonglegs. She is all ready for long runs, he still needs to take it easy before we can go long.

Sadly in the area of Spain we are in atm we need to be careful of Pine Caterpillars as they are already coming out. So it's controlled play, training and mind work to keep these entertained for a while.

A 3km run with two dogs, that equals 6km, right, right... right?

Started out brilliantly, nice trot, next to each other. Then we ended up in the middle of wild goats, of course on the steepest part of the trail. Dogs and goats in all directions and a big stone onto my foot, not bad just sore. Glad I had the Irish mutt as an anchor once or twice, as we scrambled out. The only way to escape was to take the aqua duct. I had seen it on the map as a path and it cleary was one.

Jolly good fun.

2024 was a bumpy ride. In no particular order; lost a friend to cancer, sudden loss of my mum, rescued a dog in Spain, said goodbye to our soul dog of 11 years, rescued a dog in Ireland, saw the fascist win way to many elections and seats around the world, wars that goes killing innocent people, rich people getting filthy rich and that the most of public, politicians and the MSM really don't give a shite about the destruction of the rock call home.

In other news I've started to run mid January and joined The Green Runners. I clocked up 716 miles in a year, mental to think the most "running" I've done before was to get to the ice cream vans first.

Next year I hope I can get to do some longer runs with the mutts as they should be old enough. Sadly I can't help with cancer or stopping the wars. But I hope that I can convince more people to not leave a trace while out in the outdoor, and re-use/cycle/pair more along with buying less from the other side of the planet.

Take care of yourself and see you in 2025.

#Running #RunnersOfMastodon #RunningWithDogs #2024 #2025 #TheGreenRunners #Environment #LeaveNoTrace

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Another run'n'sniff with the Irish mutt and with added fun, the lass joined with the Spanish mutt. They were a bit scared of a horse, but did well when seeing 3 other dogs and a few other runners. Ended up looking at this for a while, rude not to. Should have plodded on for another 500m as I would I the clocked up 700 miles of running. Because it's crimbo I rounding up, so there!

700miles done, 300miles to go!

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Today's run as meh, just didn't have it in me. Couldn't get into it. Had a few slow weeks - admin, travelling and weather - but the runs had been good and I enjoyed them. But today nope, nada, no, nej. Wanted to go out and looked forward to get the run done before the worst of the weather hit us. Just didn't get going. I think it's because that I've been good with getting enough protein in me, just totally forgot an didn't eat or drink enough beforehand today. Still managed 4.5km run'n'sniff with added play with small mutt.

670miles done, 330miles to go!

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The m'home had to go in for a service so I decided to run back from the garage. Set off in thick icy fog and ended up looking down at the frosty fog below. This run was only "ruined" by a detour around a farm, they were bringing in the cows, so going on the footpath through the farm might not be a grand idea with a mutt. So we detoured through a field with deep mud. Mutt wasn't happy that she needed a hose down at the end, even if the water was warm.

650miles done, 350miles to go!

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Hit a massive milestone today. Never in a million years would I have thought this was possible. I, who always thought that running was only to get first in the ice cream queue, started to run on a regularly basis and not after ice cream vans.

I know, crazy and for yet to be determined reasons, I also came up with the idea of running a thousand miles in one year, and that was dreamt up without the help of alcohol too. Just how and why did I do that, I dunno, I clearly need to have a talk with myself over a stiff drink or two, to come to the bottom of this sillyness.

Yet, it clearly did help, because I have now run just over a thousand kilometers, 1000km, a million meters, in under 10 months.

I know it's not 1000 miles but it's a fecking milestone still, especially when I've always been wary about my knees and lower back when doing dumb things, like sportsball in the park after a few pints. Heck even when cycling.

Don't think I'll get to the original target but I'm well and truly chuffed that I did this, yes there was walking up the hills and still is. But I now know that I can run 10 miles without needing a lift.

Like a ultra runner I saw on a video/podcast said - totally plagiarizing his words here - I (he didn't really like running) run because I want to be able to do other things (e.g. be able to go on a hike camping trip without being bollocksed afterwards).

I run, so I can walk my dogs, get up hills and eat cake without worrying about it.

Does this make me a runner?

622miles done, 378miles to go!

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First run on the beach with the new mutt. Went well in that sense that EVERYTHING is the best thing EVER! So he ran backwards, left around me and then right into me, before diving into the next bit of seaweed, to bolt thataway <point in a random direction> ... and repeat in ad infinitum ;)

611miles done, 389miles to go!

#TrailRunning #1000miles #Running #MastodonRunning #RunningWithDogs #RunnersOfMastodon #Ireland #AdoptDontShop#BeachRunning

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Not much running of late, weather vs work vs admin put a spanner into the works. But today was just a small short run, even if planned route was a no go. Because new running partner had hurt his paw in the dog pound were we got from two weeks ago. So we are taking it easy, also he is still too young for longer runs.

602miles done, 398miles to go!