Last Saturday

Only one guy really doing the business this last Saturday; YJ completing his last long run before Snowdonia. TF had run from the far end of Lever Park Avenue to meet him at the Barn where EYJ and yours truly met with them briefly before heading off to ~ you've guessed it! ~ recce the Winter Hill Race route.

The road runners completed the short Anglezarke loop (original Jubillee route in reverse?) before setting off to do a lap of the Bolton 40 course. TF executed her planned drop-out near the Chorley/Bolton border to return at her car on Lever Park Ave, leaving YJ to soldier on up CoR and eventually round to Belmont.

EYJ and I, meanwhile, unsuitably clad for the rather unpleasant wet and windy conditions, wimped out at the Shooting Hut and returned home via a low level route, pausing briefly to pay homage to NLN's revered Trespass Stone. Below Two Lads we met two older lads, namely Keith Booth and Gary Flitcroft and we chatted to them until any warming benefit of our lower route had been thoroughly wiped out then shivered back to the Barn ~ more on Keith and Gary at  later date.

From the Barn, EYJ returned home to try to get some feeling back into his hands, whilst I, feeling something of a failure, tried to redeem myself by driving up to Hordern Stoops, and running down to intercept the main man on his climb up to the top.  Met him just after half way down (I was neither up nor down) and returned to my car under slightly more pressure than I was on the descent.