Edinburgh Day 5

Friday, 19 July 2024

I woke up on our last full day of Edinburgh feeling pretty bad - I've been fighting a cold for days and my cough was not getting any better with long days and running races so I decided to stay in bed for the morning's event as it was a bit of a trek from our place on 2 busses. 

So while I lay in bed, Jon, Jett and Zali watched the very low key qualification races then J & J did a run themselves while Zali bussed back to our place and consequently suddenly appeared outside the loungeroom window just when I had finally decided to get up.  After getting over the shock we decided the only remaining chance we had to walk up Arthurs Seat was right then, so after a moment to psych ourselves into it we headed on up the hill.

Although I still felt pretty bad we made it up to the top pretty quickly which was good as when we got home it turned out we had to leave the house again very quickly to make it into town for the finals of the knock out sprint which were going to be pretty exciting - particularly with the rain making things slippery.

We parked ourselves on the final corner of the race before the finish sprint which meant we got a good view of a lot of pushing and shoving and desperation of the athletes wanting to make it through to the final - it was great fun. 

As soon as it was over we did our last Edinburgh walk home to pack and get ready for the next day's flight to Ireland.