Birthday Run

Am preparing this on Wednesday 15th August in Utrecht, hoping it will automagically post itself on the afternoon of my birthday.  This is the Garmin map I made of the route I want to run.  There are a few kilometers 'extra' in it for if I wander a bit off-route on the south side at any point; from the other side of the bridge the Fife Coastal Path should be marked. The plan is to end on Pettycur beach and if I still have some kilometers to go before my Garmin says I've run 50 k I'll run through Kinghorn up to the loch and end there instead.  Will report at some point if all this went to plan.
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Monday 27th Run went well yesterday, perfect weather, lots of stops for photos and birthday text messages.  Bobby met me in Inverkeithing with a top up of food and drink and the present I'd put in my bag from Carin to unwrap on the way and Tanya provided us all with a champagne picnic on Pettycur Beach at the end. There was even a medal and a souvenier t-shirt! More techno details when I get back home and can process the Garmin data.

Thursday 30th August
Back in Utrecht.  This is the actual trail I followed in the end.

Time:	7:08:26
Moving Time:	6:41:42
Elapsed Time:	8:31:50

Avg Speed:	7.0 km/h
Avg Moving Speed:	7.5 km/h

As can be seen from the Garmin stats, I took it easy, lots of breaks for photos and phone texts along the way.
Starting at Max's house in Broughton, down through the dark scarey path to the coast (which wasn't as scarey and full of drunks and druggies as I'd suspected it might be when I did the reccie on the bike on Friday).  Ended zigzagging about the sands at Pettycur for a while at the end to make up some missing kilometers where I accidentally pushed the stop button somewhere around Aberdour - I don't understand why there isn't a 'keylock' option on the Garmin to prevent this happening.  Off to post some of the photos I took along the way now.     





 



   

 Brief panic here when I thought I would

  be sent back but soon realised it was

only 8.30 and so I'd be past

before the shore walk was closed.

Downton Abby lookalike, Dalmeny House

 
 

 

 

 

Another runner on the
muddy path up from Braemar.

 

 

Burntisland

Ditched my shoes here.

 

 

 

Tanya lighting the sparklers.