1st October Gone with the wind or an act of God?


So woke up this morning to discover that the Curbar Commotion fell race has been cancelled on Satuday. Not as I might have thought due to an adverse weather forecast with storm Amy heading this way but rather down to an issue with insurance for the race. I lost the thread in the e mail a little bit but it sounds as if there is a disagreement between the race organisers and the landowners over who should provide what cover of insurance for the 9.8 mile jolly. 

On one hand I am disappointed as its a great race to run even if it often doesn't seem so at the time and on the other hand relieved that I won't have to run in horizontal rain and 80 mile an hour winds. But I wouldn't be surprised if people who were due to run the race actually turn up at the appointed start time and run it anyway. I won't be one of them.

But it does leave me with the decision of where to go to try and put in a slightly longer run on Saturday morning, hopefully somewhere that might offer a bit of shelter from the  elements...a jolly around Carsington, a loop of Chatsworth, a Baslow Bolt recce, or the race the train route. Tune in on Sat / Sun to find out.

Meanwhile in the first headtorch run of the autumn I naturally assumed by familiar position as the good shepherd at the back of the pack making sure no one strayed from the flock. And by the end of an undulating and sandy 5.6mile run that finshed in an awful uphill slog in the dark, I was officially flocking knackered.


 

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