Rainy Run with John Parker

After getting home from my hike yesterday I decided to have today as a rest day but when I woke up and weighed myself I was so horrified that I forced myself out to run!  I have piled on weight, going from 8st 12 to 9st 6!!!  You'd think all these days of hiking would have melted the fat away but I'm guessing the three full English breakfasts counteracted all the hard work. I really need to stop eating like a pig all the time!

At the Lostock meet up this morning there was only John Parker.  We hung around until about 8.12 to see if anybody was running late, but nobody else showed up so off we went.  I had already run from home and only wanted to do 11 miles today so I told John that I would be turning round at Watermans Cottage and heading back via the edge of Healey Nab.

When we got to Watermans Cottage, John decided to head back with me rather than carrying on into White Coppice and Brinscal on his own and I was glad of the good company.

When we got near farm house at the end of the path by Healey Nab, we bumped into Josie, Graeme and Mark who were also out for a run in the rain.  Josie told us that she had originally come out without a waterproof and wearing sunglasses because the weather had looked quite nice but that definitely wasn't the case now and we were all drenched.  I had a windproof on and I might as well have not bothered because it was saturated and just stuck to me.

We quickly got back on our way as we were soon getting cold and I took John along the off-road route which comes out opposite the end of The Street as he has never been that way before and I think it's quite a nice route, as long as the field isn't full of cows of course!

We then ran along The Street and back into Rivington and I told John that I would be running alongside the reservoir back home so John joined me to add a bit of distance onto his run.  He came as far as the castle and then doubled back to his car whilst I carried on home where I passed Martyn and Dave finishing off their run along dog poo alley.


Total distance - 11 miles