Run Report by Amanda
A new pub had been selected for our run last Wednesday. Of the usual gang ,the following turned up: Kate,John, Duds,Pete,Presso,Jules and me. Dales also strolled in to accompany Heather on a shortened route. The route had been complied by John and at first we ran along the edge of Naphill Common,came out at Clappins Lane and Presso, Brett and Pete left us at the first junction in the woods. We then ran on footpaths towards Speen and North Dean. Quite a few hills but no stingers or fallers so I coped (having recently done some high altitude training in the Pyrenees) and in fact did not complain or swear once - a first. Along the route Duds showed us the location near Speen of a previous conquest many years ago and he assured Kate and I that it was probably over in a matter of seconds - mmm. It was a warm, close evening so we did cut a few corners off John's original route. We ended up in Stocking Lane where we met up with Dales and Heather.
The run was 4.6 miles and 54 minutes - sorry I cannot provide any other climb/calories burned/anorak information because I did not set my tic tac machine to record that information. A really nice run route with varied terrain and quite a lot of hills but no absolute killers. The pub should be added to our list of acceptable running venues.
At the pub the conversation was very diverse and covered:
GB teams success at Beijing - Pete noted that the cycling team had won more golds than I had predicted the whole GB team would win:
private parts piercings being known as a Prince Albert (according to Duds) - for the life of me I cannot recall how we got on to this subject so I cannot elaborate.
those with birthdays in January - Pete,Jules, Brett, Duds, Presso which obviously confirms the fact that the vast majority of supreme athletes are born in winter and are old in their school years. More importantly this also means that they avoid ever buying a round of drinks on a Wednesday to celebrate their birthdays.
On the above subject, Kate very kindly bought us all drinks as it was her birthday a few days before - thanks Kate.
It is starting to get quite dark by 8pm so I suggest that we meet at the Royal Oak, Bovingdon Green (I know we did our first run from there but we can do a different route) and depart at 6.45pm.
see you there
Amanda
A new pub had been selected for our run last Wednesday. Of the usual gang ,the following turned up: Kate,John, Duds,Pete,Presso,Jules and me. Dales also strolled in to accompany Heather on a shortened route. The route had been complied by John and at first we ran along the edge of Naphill Common,came out at Clappins Lane and Presso, Brett and Pete left us at the first junction in the woods. We then ran on footpaths towards Speen and North Dean. Quite a few hills but no stingers or fallers so I coped (having recently done some high altitude training in the Pyrenees) and in fact did not complain or swear once - a first. Along the route Duds showed us the location near Speen of a previous conquest many years ago and he assured Kate and I that it was probably over in a matter of seconds - mmm. It was a warm, close evening so we did cut a few corners off John's original route. We ended up in Stocking Lane where we met up with Dales and Heather.
The run was 4.6 miles and 54 minutes - sorry I cannot provide any other climb/calories burned/anorak information because I did not set my tic tac machine to record that information. A really nice run route with varied terrain and quite a lot of hills but no absolute killers. The pub should be added to our list of acceptable running venues.
At the pub the conversation was very diverse and covered:
GB teams success at Beijing - Pete noted that the cycling team had won more golds than I had predicted the whole GB team would win:
private parts piercings being known as a Prince Albert (according to Duds) - for the life of me I cannot recall how we got on to this subject so I cannot elaborate.
those with birthdays in January - Pete,Jules, Brett, Duds, Presso which obviously confirms the fact that the vast majority of supreme athletes are born in winter and are old in their school years. More importantly this also means that they avoid ever buying a round of drinks on a Wednesday to celebrate their birthdays.
On the above subject, Kate very kindly bought us all drinks as it was her birthday a few days before - thanks Kate.
It is starting to get quite dark by 8pm so I suggest that we meet at the Royal Oak, Bovingdon Green (I know we did our first run from there but we can do a different route) and depart at 6.45pm.
see you there
Amanda
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