20th April Dogging in the daylight


A combination of holidays and various meetings has meant that today has been the first day since the clocks changed at the end of March that I have been able to go out on an evening run with one of the two running clubs I occasionally grace with my pedestrian plodding. And at the end of a day of paperwork, form filling and people bickering over 1st world problems it was a much needed escape.

And what a lovely evening to run on alongside four other humans and three canines. There was a nip in the air as we assembled at the start of the run at the Newstead Abbey gates but as soon as we got moving on the nearly 5 mile route that vanished and was quickly replaced by the usual blood, sweat and tears. With hardly a cloud in the sky and the sun bathing the fields in a golden glow and sending shafts of light through the trees it was lovely. Well as lovely as running ever gets trailing along at the back of a  5 human three dog caterpillar.

And surprisingly having run this self same route once before with the same group back in Dec 2022, my Garmin watch surprised me by revealing that I had actualy run almost 5 minutes quicker the second time round yesterday. It appears there is life in this old dog yet!!

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