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Hello and thanks for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

I'm Helen Needham.

In this episode, I try to spice up my daily exercise with a little help from Tristan Gouli,

the natural navigator.

It's about quarter to seven in the morning.

And the sea har is here at the minute so it's a bit gloomy

after, gosh, days and days of bright sunny weather

and

start of my working week

go for a run to try and

bridge the transition between

the weekend and the working week.

So I'm just going to do the route that I normally do,

which isn't very long.

It's just a way of getting out of bed really.

This morning I was actually woken up with the woodpecker drumming

one of the trees

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