… and I mean, quite literally, too early!
I dropped Kim near to the station and hurried off to get to Jack & Jill ahead of Daren, who I knew only had a short time to run this morning. When I got there the car park was closed and couple of workmen were busy looking at (resurfacing) it.
I quickly phoned Daren and left a message to say that I’d meet him at the bottom of the hill in Clayton. I parked in the recreation ground and started putting my caked muddy shoes on from Monday (the Bok would NOT be impressed!)… about half way through the second one a thought occurred to me… I’ve mixed up the hours!
After another quick message to Daren to say DUH, I weighed up the choice of staying in the car with the heater on, or getting out into the morning: and went with the latter… I mean, there’s a hill right there waiting to be conquered!
It was certainly chilly out, but it didn’t seem that bad… UNTIL I turned around at Jack & Jill car park and got the sharp northerly wind in my face… WOW! It WAS cold!
I ran back to the car park to check, then repeated the circuit to J&J, checked again and repeated a third time. This time there was a Daren man waiting for me to go for a run!
I guess I covered about 2.5 miles in 37 minutes… 4mph. But it was fun and the views were great!
