Wake at 6:30am to bright sunshine and clear blue skies, already the garden and the fields are steaming in the sun. Make cream cheese and fresh chives on rye toast with black coffee for breakfast and then drive to Cherry Burton, only to be told that Sarah has taken Louis to school. So take the dogs out a little earlier, it is very pleasant this morning, and with the extra time, take the dogs round the loop past the golf club. The May is not out yet but will be in a day or so, but the wild apple trees on the railway line are in full blossom. At the Golf Club Dolly decides to throw a wobbler and runs across the road, I manage to get her back in one piece. As we walk down main street from the Malton Road, the field to our left is a picture of the pastoral idyll. Lambs are playing in small groups or gathered around their mothers.
After tea and biscuits in the garden, drive to the Leisure Centre and run to the "Millenium Orchard" down Shepherds Lane. The run is about 10k and takes just over the hour, I feel smooth and fluent, my legs fresh from not having run for almost three weeks. It's too wet to run off road and so find a route on roads and pavements but away from major traffic, focussing on running tall and relaxed, whilst counting my breaths. Afterwards warm down on the exercise bike and a swim a few lengths in the pool. What a change from yesterday.
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