Friday 24 January.
It was back to my early morning run again and after stretching I set off at 7:30 am. I ran the reverse of the route I did on Wednesday, except that at the top of the zigzag path above Los Gigantes instead of taking the contour road I continued up the hill. I past the view point then the start of the hiking trail to Santiago del Teide before reaching the roundabout where the bus turns up towards Tamaimo. It was now a much longer run down the hill to the road into the port. I was running quite well, handled the uphills all right and managed to stride out on the long downs. I was surprised at my time as I thought with the extra loop further up the hill, the distance and time would be longer, it was 57:57 minutes. I must have been running a lot faster than I thought.
I stretched again then up for breakfast. We both decided to go to the gym this morning, I wanted to do the spinning class while Moira opted for the aqua-aerobics. We left at 9:40 am so that we wouldn't have to hang about when we got there. It was feeling a bit cool on the walk there when we were in the shade but at the top of the hill at the sports centre it was in the sun and very warm. Moira's class didn't start until 10:30 am so she went to do some cycling and walking on the treadmill first. My spinning started at 10 am and I had a few minutes to do some sit-ups and stretching before it started. The cycling was much the same as the other day and was just a variation of hand positions and whether you were standing or sitting all to loud thumping music. I managed all right but it took a lot of adjusting to get the foot straps buckled properly and not rubbing against the pedal cranks. When I finished Moira was still at the pool and I went to the gym to workout there until she finished. I did calf raises and leg presses and after a light dumbbell routine was busy with a tricep exercise when Moira arrived; she had had a good session and it only lasted half an hour. It was all in Spanish like the spinning but she was able to follow what to by the demonstrations and from watching the others. We headed home right away. It was now much warmer on the way back with the sun high In the sky and very little shade.
Yesterday while we were away the woman that owns the flat sent a text that she had left the PO box key under our door. When we got back I checked the box but the camera battery charger hadn't arrived yet. As we got back today the Correos (post office) van was just leaving the resort. I checked the box again and there was a note that the package was to be collected at the post office. We had a cup of coffee then Moira decided to go to the PO and collect the package, the office was up near Lidl supermarket. The delivery van hadn't returned with the package yet and she has to go back tomorrow to collect it. While she was out she got hamburgers and a baguette at Lidl and we had that for lunch.
In the afternoon we sat out on the veranda in the lovely warm sunshine and listened to the catch-up on iPlayer radio. I managed to complete a crossword and worked on my blog. I wrote up yesterday's adventure to Puerto de la Cruz and inserted photographs that Moira had taken on her iPhone. I managed to get it posted, the WiFi was working quite well.
I came in at 5pm to watch the 'Chase' and 'Eggheads'. Later, after dinner and the washing up done, there wasn't much to watch on the box so I put on some programmes I had downloaded from iPlayer to the Notebook while at Cardiff. One was the first part of a two part 'Silent Witness', it was quite good and I was able to follow it all right as it had subtitles. Before going to bed I turned on the TV for the result of a Cup-Tie that was being shown live. Cambridge United against Man U. It ended up 0-0, not a bad result for Cambridge and they had missed the best chance of the match.
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