Good news...

Very pleased for you both NicO and Dave. Glad that all is well.

... and some good running

Sunday's run was a great test of stamina after Saturday's 16.5 miles and as if keeping up with NLN was not bad enough teamed up with both NLN and FSS for the Pooley Bridge to Pooley Bridge circuit was another hard day's running. The weather was worse than expected ranging from drizzle to rain and then snow and hailstones with the blue patches of sky always over another part of the Lakes. The views, as ever were stunning, and the climbs just as steep!

NLN was in charge of the route finding for the first half and didn't get us lost. Well done.

The return route, as EtU and Matt will recall, has a long grassy run down into Martindale and with FSS disappearing fast into the distance the ensuing chase left us exhausted at the bottom and from then on the trundle back was a tiring experience. When the option to miss the last climb presented itself one of the party was more ready than the others to take the easy way out. I won't say who but you'd have liked that JTE.

You'd all have enjoyed the sight of us struggling to find the path through bog and gorse and eventually making a big detour before finding a way back to civilisation. The climb would have been a quicker, if more tiring alternative.

Without doubt it was another glorious day's Lakeland running. Thanks NLN and FSS.

PS: For the record we covered 20 miles in 5 hrs 22 mins. The first leg along the Joss Naylor route was inside an 18 hour schedule.