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It was great to see the sun for the second day on the trot. Maryann had orgainsed a wee run out with Circuiteer Lynne Kuz from 9am, when she got back we ventured off to Church.  As she was at Church I got up to Townhill Woods for a delightful 30minutes of tramping in a fine trail which has been made right the way round by the dog walkers.

Up at the Police HQ roundabout it was manic with cars trying to get up to the Kingsgate Car Park.

Lynne kindly looked after our kids for a few hours to allow myself & Maryann to get into Tesco to do some slighly stresser free shopping.

I had to run back to the house at 2pm for the start of my appointments at 2.30 as Maryann had to wait in 2 queues, she never got home until 3.30.

It was good for me to get back to work with 3 appointments.

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• 9am Church
• 1045-1140 Run, Cross Country over the Undulations of Pitreavie Golf Course
• An appointment 1230-1330
• Administration paperwork(medical notes)
• Waiting for my 4.30pm
• Then we have a 6.30 & 8.30 appointments

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Too tired to update things chillin out now 10pm, a wee update tomorrow after some sleep.

Needless to say I have 10 pictures from this mornings Beach Session to upload, confirmation of who turned up and those who slept in, you know who you are.

Mad rush after the Beach driving the 48miles down past Biggar for the Tinto race I must thank John & Clodagh Fulham for picking up all the families numbers Isla even ran her first ever race the Tinto Tiptoe 2k’s up part of the hill Cameron was 2nd and Lewis 4 secs behind in 4th.

Got back up the road and just chilled out, hope to get out in the hills tomorrow.

Shall update in the morning.

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I really enjoyed both classes last night the 2nd especially, a bit of a culture shock probably this morning after this past 2 weeks using the steps with some Dumbbells, thanks Hazel for your comment after the class about not being able to brush your teeth.

9&10 were there details of which shall be up later.

2 ppointments doen this morning from 10-12 and 1215-1.45pm a quick lunch then I’m heading over soon to Crossford Primary to look after 16 Primary 3′s for an hour, doing some Physical Activity.

Back around 4.30 a wee run, Maryann away to the Harriers then an appointment at 8pm, early bed I think.

Class is on as normal tomorrow 6pm Camdean Community Centre then the Beach Sat.

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My phoned was picked up yesterday and taken away hopefully to be fixed, in this day and age we and others depend so much on our phone which is sad but true.

Many thanks to Simon Kuz, Patrick Leask & Christine Campbell who have offered me their old phones as a stop gap, much appreciated.

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Spent the best part of this am speaking 2 BT & HTC about up’ d’loading repairing, rebooting still with no joy, phone 2 b sent away 2 b fixed.

Phone shall be taken away tomorrow morning, so if you have a spare handset and a battery pack for a Vodaphone network I would be interested in hearing from you.

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Set off today at 5pm and arrived home at 7 Saturday night, from a sunny Aviemore after a great week together for the family, unfortunately eldest Yasmin couldn’t get away from her important studies at Glasgow Uni.

More info to follow!

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Sorry Guys I’ve still not put up your pictures and videos from last Saturday, they shall not been done today either I’m afraid and tomorrow is even busier.

Since Yasmin’s been in hospital from Monday night, yesterday Maryann went into work but was excused to go down and see her.  I took the car and Isla across to the Gyle in Edinburgh around 1030, I left the car with her and I ran the 12.5miles back home via Kirkliston  I had an hour then I was busy with appointments from 2-6pm got  a wee break, then I had a late appointment from 9-10.30pm.

This morning has been spent down at Camdean Primary School in Rosyth, I was  working beside the NHS Nurses from 9am-12pm taking 42 Primary 1′s on 30mins of exercise while the other half of the class gets their height & weight checked talking about a healthy heart and teeth.

Maryann is still is Glasgow with Isla visiting Yasmin in hospital so I’ve no car to get to the classes tonight worse case scenerio is that I need to get a Taxis down there.

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Like everybody the last 24hours have been very very busy!

3pm yesterday headed down to Glasgow to catch up with our daughter Yasmin and to see her flat and drop off her Lap Top it was a chance to see her  Flat for the 1st time, less said here the better, Mum not at all happy.

To lighten the mood we took her out to a wee Spanish restaurant just along her road which was great to have all the family out together!  Nice meal then after saying our good byes it was over to Renfrew and Paisley to drop in on Maryann’s two  sisters, Francis and Gemma, we finally left Glasgow at midnight getting back home at 1.15am.

Sunday morning, the plan was to get up and away early for a run but after last night’s late one and yesterday half in 1.22 both were still playing on me, it was great to get a wee lie in, next week shall be the last early morning rise as we go on a week’s break to Aviemore after the Beach session.

Been off to church from 11-12, a wee shop and Maryann is currently out with Lynne Kuz who competed for Carnegie Harriers at yesterday’s East District Relay Championships at Preston Pans coming in a credibly 3rd the mens’s vet team 2nd.

2 appointments today at 4.30 & 8.30pm a 10-13 miler to be fitted in as soon as Maryann gets back.

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From the weekend, including my account from the Cumbrae 10miler.

Need to clean the house, change a nappy before I can update you.

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1st 2 and a half mile run in the morning this morning down to my resistence class.

Was asked by my NHS friends to conduct a 2x30min  exercise class for 40 underprivileged kids in Kirkcaldy’s YMCA  between 11 and 12 this morning.

No class at our normal location Queenshall so I have been over taking some dumbells and resistence bands for tonights classes at Camdean Community Centre. Only small classes this evening I’m afraid, holiday’s. If you would like to come along feel free to get in contact.

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Been most of the day with Massage getting one and doing 3 out for a wee run at 6pm and two to do tonight at 7.30 & 9pm website updates to follow!

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After a great start to the weekend with the Beach session I had planned to have a chat with Lisa Norman(sports development officer) and Aberdour Shinty’s main person. My intentions were to see if we could get some of shinty players to come down and train with us, unfortunately for me this is the start of their season finishing in Sept. This being start hope to keep some good links with Lisa with a potential link from my site to theirs for Sports Injury etc. Aberdour Shinty club below, Conor McPherson who comes along the the sessions pictured bottom right of the picture.

Headed down to Erskine(Maryann’s Mum’s) where her family had a big get together which lasted until midnight, back up the road at 1am.

Sunday

Stayed in to catch up with some admin tasks, church from 11-12 then boys swimming from 1-2pm visited John Fulham for a HRM loan then back home for tow appointment from 3-6pm.

That night relaxed and cleaned up the house, no viewers over the weekend!

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After watching Isla till midday, Maryann’s mum came up from Glasgow to take over so I could get away to do my 3 normal tasks for that day.  The major difference today, I couldn’t run the 13miles so cycle it would have to be, in normal traditional Tommy style, I left everything to the last minute, the mountain bike had a puncture…….tried blowing it up, straight back down, had to walk the bike to the Bike shop to buy 2 inner tubes from The Bike Shop  it was on my way to the school plus I still managed to get to Dunfermline High at 1pm to take the teacher from their Wed lunch time training.

A brilliant sunny day a bit fresh, left the teachers at 1.45 fixed my tyre in 2minutes which was a first then I had nice leisurly cycle across to Oakley saw Morna Fleming out on the roads, arrived 30mins earlier than normal so treated myself to a cuppa in the staff room, Inzievar were having a High Level school Inspection so I made sure we had an extra special presentation for the kids for their After schools activites.  All went well there.

Left there at 4.15 cycled over to Charlestown, I actually enjoyed it a lot more than running, it’s maybe because of the limited time and tiredness setting in on a Wed due to the turn arounds, anyway got in to Queenshall set up and was ready for 5.30pm a first for Tommy great to be orgainised Maryann brought over the Class Mats and music system all ready to go!

After the class I had to get organised as I had a 9pm appt, thanks to John Fulham for your recommendation!

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Got back from Forress at 8pm Saturday night, Allan Fotheringham drove all the way back, managed to stay awake for all of the journey just couln’t say the same for Jeff Farqhar(Pitreavie).  Don’t know why I came back so early soon as I got in Maryann feel asleep. 

Results were up from the Masters race so downloaded and printed them off.

Sunday up at 8am, ready and away to Church with all the family from 9-10 then we travelled over to Gorebridge/Bonnybridge to look at a House we have Provisionally Reserved(The Northcombe,Taylor Wimpey house which we have previously bought twice before) which is located half way between our current house in Dunfermline and the Tesco’s, Dulloch Park.  The aim was to look at the layout of the house to see the layout of the rooms and to see if it suited our needs.  Mixed views.

Drove back to Ikea middaywe had something to eat bought a few things for our house to brighten it up a it back in 3ish then went over to Homebase about 5 to do the same got back in around 6pm tidied up, tea at 7.30pm, no training today.

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As my screen is not working, I can’t see anything on it, I can still receive calls though!

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On a previous post saying not to bring your car down to the beach, this is the reason why……..Climbing Ropes, Towing Eyes, Land Rovers well doen to Tony and Sue who listened to me maybe I used listen to me………..

Got three quarters of the way up the steep hill and the car starting skidding, then it started sliding luckily the small verve you can see on the left hand side stopped up from going arse over tit into the bushes, at one spot I was for reversing the car onto the beach then onto the Grass to avoid that hill, until Simon got the Manual out and found out where the towing eye was.

 Then with the help of a local who turned up in his Land Rover 4×4 who was taking his wife down to feed Deer he hauled us up the hill with Simon Kuz’s fancy knots and Steve’s braun to push and guide the car up the banking thanks to everybody, needless to say I wasn’t my wife’s favourite person……funny that.

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A full week of looking after Precious(6month old Isla)she’s a wee sweat-heart and believe it or not I’m loving looking after her more than I thought, the amount of feedback that you get from your baby of 6 months is unbelievable….anyway, things are running smoothly on the Home front, Maryann has survived her first full week back in nearly 7 months.

Got the boys back from school

Then when Maryann arrived back I was off for a Stint up in Townhill Woods again.

Slightly faster today than yesterday

• 5.85miles covered
• nearly 1/4mile of climbing,
• avr 8.09 min mile
• best 5.35 min mile

A map of the route can be found HERE

A picture from inside the Wood looking over towards Longannet Power Plant.

Just found out today that I’ve been picked to captain the Carnegie Harriers A team, which basically means take the money and hopefully get the four out of the 6 of us in the right order as Andy Wright & Symounds shall be running the hardest Leg 3 more details about this race can be found below

http://www.fifeac.co.uk/

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Maryann(My good lady) went back to work today after 6 months of Maternity, a bit of a shock to the system however it was going to happen sooner or later……Myself and the boys have been a bit under the weather with sore throats etc so we decided to keep them off school then we shall see how they are tomorrow , I was working from my Massage room on the computer chasing up and sending emails etc for most of the day trying to get into my new sheet system which is taking a bit of getting used to.

Yasmin away into work and at 3.45 Maryann came back from her’s. All went pretty well…..

Signed myself up and Simon for the Carnethy 5 Hill Race, last year it took 2 days to fill the 550 places today well you probably had guessed it, 17hours now fully booked, there is now a waiting list, unbelievable isn’t it.

Anyway never seemed to get through what I was planning to do today, however at 4pm needed to get away to run, plan was go round Calais Muir Woods next to Tesco Dulloch Park but the temptation would be to come in early so I ran the 2 miles down to Pitreavie Golf Course and done a few laps round there(round mostly the Perimeter which was pretty good going)

Details HERE

7pm Maryann, Simon Kuz and Nick West and Stevie King have ventured up to Bishops Hill don’t know how much they’ll do the snow has been on again.

Getting Ready for an appointment at 8.15pm

Classes on tomorrow 5.45pm & 7pm, I’m taking names, I have still to send out emails to the regular Circuit people advising on Standing order payments and benefits, shall try and get this done tonight!

Any feedback etc, would be glad to hear from you.

Tomorrow in with Isla most of the day 3.45pm when Maryann comes in I shall probably be running the 6 mile to Queenshall to set up I shall hopefully get a lift back as I have a Fitness Assessment to conduct at 9 at the house.

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