Cows!

Another run with Ruby tonight in the lovely sunshine.  We set off from home and ran straight up to George's Lane.  I'm a bit worried by all the signs saying no access to George's Lane for two months from 21 June as I run up onto here 50% of the time and I'll really miss it, even though it's only for a couple of months.  

We ran along to the dog hotel and then up to Two Lads.  From there we ran down to the mast road, crossed over and ran the reverse of the Two Lads race but then turned off and headed down towards the quarries.  We went through a kissing gate on the right heading along the top of the quarries where a fox was chasing some crows through a field of sheep.  It didn't manage to get any though but the sheep got a bit of a scare.  

As you'll see from my Strava map below, all of a sudden we stop dead (the part of the route shown at the bottom right.  This is because the field was full of cows!  I appear to have recently developed a fear of cows, especially when I'm running with Ruby.  I keep hearing horror stories about them and it's surprising how many people have had a run in with them.  I decided it would be best to just turn round and retrace our steps.

Instead of going all the way back to the part of the mast road where we turned off on the outward journey we headed left and came out across the road from the gate which leads you back to Two Lads.  When we got to the water tanks we turned left and headed back down to George's Lane and then back home the same way we came up.  

Total distance - 5.05

http://www.strava.com/activities/149140236/overview