I’ve been working all afternoon and now need to go and make the tea. So this will be a brief report to start the new month.
After a week of monumental travel it was time to hit the hills for the first time in a week. The plan, as usual, was to head out for a Sunday run – 10 miles plus is the weekend objective now. But a well-timed tweet from Mr Tom Roper suggested that we might both head out for a jaunt on bank holiday Monday instead. It seemed a good plan to me.
And so it came to pass that we met at 8:30 this morning on the railway land ready for something between 8 to 10 miles. The planned route was to head down the river to Southease before hitching up to the Moyleman (in reverse) to take us back to Kingston where we would drop the Moyleman leaving us to roll downhill back to Lewes.
Being a bank holiday it was of course wet and windy with a visibility on the tops that was down to about 20 yards. But there were two very happy runners up there bouncing along. So happy in fact that we took a little detour before we hit Kingston to take part in the long-lost art of sheep path traversing at break neck speed.
With the need to return to Tom’s car to pick up his wallet before a well-earned rest at Ground Coffee, we plodded back via Spring Barn farm, the rugby ground and the railway land so Tom could buy me a coffee as payment for my most excellent navigational skills (ok, I hadn’t got any money).
All in all, including my run from home and back to the meeting point I ran 13.2 miles this morning.
A quick half on a Sunday morning isn’t a bad way to start the month.
May we run well this month
