CHAROITE SIBERIANS

Come on Mel, click that knee into place and let's go !

The trail at Sherwood is a bit rough and ready for Beany at the moment (more on this later) so she decided to go for a walk with me in the woods near home instead of a run with the rest of the gang. I love this picture. Must be the gypsy in me but paths, trails, roads that stretch ahead make me want to just keep going... Hmm, long distance footpath sounds appealing.

That is, of course, if my knee ever sorts itself out. Everything was going fine until I inexplicably got my big toe stuck in the hem of my pjs the other night and over-straightened my bad knee. When I woke up the next day it was bent and wouldn't straighten at all and it felt like I was back to square one   !  Horrible, added to the fact my dodgy wrist is aching this week too. Thought what the hell and ran the dogs early today with a moderate amount of ouchiness. Took Beany out later and somewhere along the walk the knee clunked back into place. It's still sore but at least it's straight and I'm not really limping now.

There was a car rally last week at Sherwood and the trail is in fairly bad shape in places. For anyone who is planning to train up there, there is a nice run of about 2.7 miles that's doable (with caution in a couple of spots where the cars have screamed round a curve and kicked up a ridge of dirt to get the rigs over). This is mostly Dave's Trail which obviously didn't get any rally traffic. The forest fire road is pretty rough and there are deep ruts in places (over the old railway is completely trashed). Sherwood normally has the benefit of a few different lengths of trails but at the moment it's limited to two lengths really - the one I mentioned and the straight in and out everyone does with puppies. Hopefully the FC will get it fixed up soon, fingers crossed. It was cool and dry this morning. The boys were absolutely nuts to set up which is always a bit entertaining when there's no one else about to help ! Had a couple of nice runs though. Took Pye and Brew out as a 2 for a change and ran Raven, Tiger and Daisy together as a 3. The start area is a bit rougher than usual at the moment as the rally churned up the sand and brought a lot of loose small stones to the surface so no point in trying to run Beany as she just doesn't do less than nice trails !  We seriously need to find somewhere closer to home to run ! It's nice to get the dogs out for a hook-up and short run even if it's not as cool and fresh as it was this morning but a three hour round trip to Sherwood is a bit far for that !

At least I get to chase squirrels on a walk !