31st August He said it was a fun run!!!!

The numbers indicate the points where I needed resuscitating


I should have known what lay ahead of me when the organiser of the run compared the upcoming 4.8miles to the Gedling / Bestwood park runs whish are notoriously undulating rather than the one at Long Eaton which wouldn't trouble the bubble in a spirit level. And despite telling the gathered masses about the lovely 4 downhill sections, it was the horrendous three uphill bits that stuck in my mind before we even started.

Amazed to see some people actually warming up, the organiser then went on to remind us that it was a fun run rather than a race which didn't seem to register with 'the rabbit' who was already at the top of the first hill before I had managed to negtiate the opening style. And it went downhill from there, metaphorically but certainly not literally.

There was a handful of runners from both Ravenshead Runners and the Hucknall Harriers groups, most of who I am getting to recognise by the back of their heads and their rapidly dininishing size as they get further and further ahead of me. Even those running with their dogs, although I am convinded they get pulled up the hills and dragged down them by their canine companions.

It was, moaning aside, a lovely scenic run on a beautiful late summers evening and one that I would certainly consider doing again....sometime. Who knows second time round even the long flat section might not feel as if I were running through treacle wearing diving boots. 

Roll on the Great Longstone Chase run on Friday and my renewed rivalry with Elizabeth from Long Eaton, the pedestrian plodders version of Coe vs Ovett!!!

 

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