Jul 09 28 |
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Stuck up near Edinburgh with work (which – BTW – sucks! 
) I’ve been looking for ways to occupy myself and take advantage of the long Scottish summer evenings… Especially to help combat the effects of hotel and fast food; too much of which has significant lard building capabilities without enough exercise. 
My hotel, although only eight miles outside Edinburgh, is in an amazing country side location and has an attractive golf course attached. As I don’t play golf, I thought a good way to explore the estate would be to run around the perimeter of the course. There’s a short “jogging trail” along one side of the estate but it’s forbidden to run beyond that across the course – I suppose there’s a risk that runners might get a golf ball in the head, or more likely, they don’t want to distract the fat American golfers from their game. However, I asked the hotel concierge if anyone would notice or mind me running around the estate perimeter later in the day after work. He said “who’s going to notice?”, I took that to be as good as a nod and a wink. 
But I still avoided the greens in particular for fear of being shouted (or shot 
) at by the green keepers!
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9 Responses to “A run around Dalmahoy hotel”
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No midges, or were you moving too fasr for them?
Nope, I was not moving too fast… I actually did get attacked quite a lot!
We spent a nice weekend there a couple of years ago for James & Kirsty’s wedding – guess what, the father of the bride is keen on golf! And now his son-in-law is too.
Ian and I did that run before the wedding I think. We definitely did it before breakfast the day after the wedding, to work up an appetite: is the breakfast still as good? Ian could not believe his eyes.
Sadly th weather here has not been conducive to post-work jogging. (I get put off far too easily!)
Not sure if the breakfasts are as good as when you were here – but I’d guess they are as they’re pretty standard hotel buffet affairs. Although I only ever have two weetabix and a glass of orange juice…
I hope this “health post” doesn’t mark a change of emphasis in content
Where are the pictures of the cakes that are bringing you to such dramatic measures
Maybe pictures of the fast food would be more suitable. I am also working away from home … I went for a less beautiful run tonight which led me along some country lanes … and then I found this hill that was perfect for a hill session, so I ran up it 8 times (and down) and then continued. I found a footpath which led in approximately the right direction – then after nettles, ragwort, a very dodgy stile and very wet, horizontal grass I arrived at a road much further away that I anticipated. I continued and thankfully found my way back to the B+B – which is by no means a castle!
You ran up the same hill 8 times! Quite mad!
I think we had the posh breakfast, which was inclusive. This was lucky as when I added up what I’d had for breakfast it came to £46.00!!
Yeah, I can pick from kippers, salmon, full Scottish (aka English
), pretty much anything with my inclusive deal too. But like I say, I just have cereal. 