Breaking me in gently

We decided that Saturday would be the day when we introduced short country walks into my regime.  We studied some available on the Visit Scotland website and choose the Limekilns moderate walk as a good starting point.  Wasn't too difficult to find the wee bridge that marked the starting point and we were soon ready to go.

Off we went for about 10 minutes along a wide track that you could easily drive a tractor up when we decided to check the route instructions. Doh! We'd missed the first instruction that said to take the first right after crossing the bridge. OK so we backtracked until we found the route and off we went - uphill and on a trail that was one person wide for most of the route.

Uphill and uphill we continued eventually making it onto the edge of the crags. Further and further with my energy draining fast. We checked the route again and decided that we had somehow gotten onto the hardest trail. No wonder I was knackered.

Not being one for turning back we continued on up the trail when eventually we reached a broad forest track. After a bit of consulting the route again we decided to head uphill again on this track.  About 200 metres later we started going downhill again. Oh joy! Gravity was my friend again.

2 and a half hours from start to finish we relished the home made apple and blackberry pies that we brought with us.

Finished the day off with a beautifully cooked and rare sirloin steak with salad leaves. Mmm mmm.