Altitude: 5m/ 18ft
Temp: 0°C/ 32°F
Weather: Light snow
My first run of the year is born of necessity not planning. I was supposed to spend Hogmanay with Tracy and friends, house sitting near Uphall in West Lothian (west of Edinburgh) but the car started to make some very unpleasant noises as I drove in the morning to drop Tracy at the railway station. After working the 31st I got the AA to tow me home, and was able to book a rental car online from Inverness Airport for 9am on the 1st. I was a little dubious as nothing much happens in Scotland at 9am on the 1st, but decided that I could at least make use of the 11 mile journey to the Airport to get some early year mileage in.
I had run the night before in heavy snow (which had fallen much of the day, canceling Inverness' Hogmany street party and closing the road south at times) and the only way to get to the airport was to run on the clear (ish) carriageway of the main road west (the A96), rather than detour on snowbound smaller roads. Luckily there was very little traffic and I could easily hop off the road into a snow drift as required. Wet snow was falling the whole way and I was pretty sore as I approached the terminal, but overall things went OK for my longest run in a while. The Hertz man was in work nearly on time too and I was on the road, this time with vehicle, by 9.45am.
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