More rain… and bad wind

After almost perfect driving conditions out on the roads yesterday, this morning dawned very wet.  We ran from Nick’s place and it was fun to go somewhere completely new for a change… even if I have absolutely no idea of where we went or how we got back.  At times I had the feeling that Nick didn’t know where we were either, but I’m sure this was just feigned.

The run was a mix of delicious, lightweight and very wet mud in a parky sort of area; a nasty road with no path and lots of fast-moving traffic; a forest firebreak with big trunks across and deep slippery clay-mud, another road like the previous one; and a pavement through a build-up area, where the puddles seemed to be jumping out at me as I ran past.  This latter may have been something to do with Nick’s foot… I don’t know.

At one point he managed to thwack me with a medium sized tree: I thought it was a little unsporting bearing in mind we were clinging to the side of the dangerous road to avoid being collected by a car roaring past at the time.

I was also surprised by the drains in the locale.  It’s a fairly upmarket area, but even in the forest I kept getting whiff of them from time to time.  Later I realised it wasn’t the drains…

 So, our run was a very wet 6.6 miles in a breathy 58 minutes.  Great fun for a change, but can someone buy Nick an OS map before I return?

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