Wednesday 21 January.
It was back to my morning run again. I got up at 6:30 am but didn't go back to bed with my cup of tea but sat in the lounge and downloaded the newspaper and let Moira sleep. I stretched an hour later, made Moira a cup of tea and then set off for my run. I headed for the end of town intending to run down to the dirt track along the coast but changed my mind and followed the route the bus took yesterday. It was a long steady climb up to the t-junction where the bus went left to Tamaimo but I took the right turn that went down to the contour road. The hill had been tough going, my legs and knees were a bit sore after the downhill walking yesterday so I took it easy; there wasn't any pavement and I had to run on the stony rough patch beside the road to avoid the traffic which was busy. Once down to the contour road I headed over to the Lidl roundabout and went up the hill to the top roundabout. I made my way down a zig-zag footpath that we spotted yesterday from the top and this came to a road that headed to the junction just down from the bus stance. I did a loop down to the middle of Los Gigantes by the back street and up by the main street at the junction with the tree in the middle. From the top I ran back via the coastal path. It was a good steady run and my furthest in Tenerife, my time was 61:24 minutes and I felt that I could have easily run around the route again which would have given me close to a half marathon !
After stretching it was up for breakfast which Moira had ready. I spent the rest of the morning in the flat working on my blog which I had neglected over the last few days. When I had it up to date, more or less, I managed to complete one of the 'Telegraph' crosswords. I tried to listen to the radio but the WiFi still wasn't very good, the reception still keeps coming and going. I transferred the photographs Moira took yesterday on our walk from her phone to the Notebook. They came out quite well and I connected the laptop to the Internet to upload them to the Google+ cloud storage that I can access from the iPad and then insert into my blog.
After lunch I went to the gym, Moira came along with me for the walk. She left me there and carried on walking on her own. We arranged the time I would be finished and be back at the complex so that she could meet me and open the gate to let me in. I wanted to work on my legs today so warmed up with 5 minutes cycling then another 5 minutes on the cross trainer. Next I wanted to spend some time on the steps machine but couldn't get the thing to adjust to a reasonable working level, it was much to tough and I could hardly move the steps. Instead I went to the weights room and did heel and calf raises, leg extensions and hamstring curls before finishing with exercises for my abs. I gave myself 15 minutes to get back to the complex for Moira opening the gate. I got there a bit early and got in when a woman opened it to go in, I met Moira on the way down.
While I was out the photographs from yesterday were uploaded to Google+. I was now able to insert them into my account of yesterday's walk and attempted to publish it to my blog. Unfortunately I tried three times and it failed each time, the Internet here is dreadful and we are paying extra for it. I will try again In the morning when fewer people are using it. I had a shower and it was the time for the quizzes on the TV.
After dinner we watched 'Winter Watch' from the Cairngorms which was thick in snow. It was quite interesting investigating the life of the animals and birds in the harsh winter conditions. After that there was a new serial set in the Tudor period, 'Wolf Hall'. I couldn't follow it very well with a lot of mumbling that I had difficulty hearing. I gave up before the end and left Moira watching it. I was sleeping before she came to bed.
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