Training Log Archive: Old Daniel

Out at Yoxter and with Pete Foster's help hanging the day controls, deja vu from planning JK2001/2 and BOK Trot 199x . Much appreciated help. Its really nice being out in these areas where you would never normally venture, As area frozen and very fast, we delighted in watching a deer bound across......would have given Ben Mitchell a race (but probably lost), were intrigued by an inquisitive herd of cows closing in to a control flag to give it a closer inspection. Fierce hail stones at one point left the area and roads white with icy ball bearings..... turn right into the lane said Pete .....the wall looked awfully close as the car went sideways......turn right into the lane said Pete as we went down the steep hill to the crossroads....for some reason straight across and hope nothing is coming seemed a better plan

It was 2013 when we realised that Laura's,.indeed all our, friend had been cruelly taken from us by an avalanche in Glen Coe and it still makes us sad......how difficult for her parents and sisters.

"Black, black day. The glimmer of hope that just somehow, somehow it might not be Rachel has been extinguished.
No heart for running or really anything else
Someday we may reconcile that she did more in a third of a life that most in a full and that our whole family delighted in her joy but not this day. Today we will cry because we will miss the sparkling eyes and huge grin and be angry that life is so unfair and cruel. Today we will think of her family in the hope that it will somehow ease their pain.
A lot of fun has left the world........"

AP Sunday 20 Jan 2013